The Pain in Spain. As its economy goes down the drain. Weekly Standard, April 5 - April 12, 2010

A survey taken a few weeks ago found that 60 percent of young people in Spain A want to work for the government. You wouldn’t think this was possible. A decade and a half ago, the country’s conservative prime minister, José María Aznar, began to deregulate the system he inherited from the socialist Felipe González and tightened the country’s budget to allow it to join the new European currency.