Which family eats a week on 38 euros? This was said in the report on food consumption 2024 in Spain, but my experience of shopping at the supermarket says that we spend a little more, especially taking into account the increase in the price of basic products, such as … milk, eggs, meat, fish and bread. This year, even if more money is allocated, we will have fewer products, and that is why Gabriel Rufián told the President of the Government that “at the macro level we are doing well, but the families are not coming.” And that’s the reality.
We still have the highest rate of child poverty in the EU and so we are a poor country that wants to appear rich. What is the point of having excellent growth data if the reality is to have 38 euros of food per week and be the first to suffer from child poverty?
Miguel Angel Escobar. Fuenlabrada (Madrid)
The Madrid Galacticos
I have been a member of Real Madrid for 25 years. I unsubscribed a long time ago, because of the damn “galacticos” politics that Florentino Pérez brags about. Real Madrid doesn’t need galactics: Real Madrid makes everyone who plays on their team galactic, whatever their name. What we madridistas need is a team that plays vertically, scores goals and, ultimately, plays football; a team that respects its coach and submits to his decisions without complaint.
We sell a lot of t-shirts, we have the best stadium in the world, but, from a sporting point of view, a disaster. And don’t give me the fifteen cups… How many would we have if the format was what it was and what it should be, the Champions League Cup? But that’s another subject. Anyway, let us Real Madrid fans reconsider this galactic Real Madrid.
Javier de Travesedo Espinosa. Madrid
Are they all the same?
In just a few weeks, we have witnessed a cascade of scandals that directly affect the PSOE and the government. Faced with this, the average voter or socialist sympathizer – not to mention the party apparatus and its media speakers – invariably responds with the same litany: “All parties are equal”, “They all steal the same thing”, “The PP also had Gürtel”. Let me say this clearly: whoever uses this expression is not doing political analysis. You are committing immorality. And no, not everyone is the same. Saying “everyone is equal” is not equidistance. It’s complicity. It’s whitewashing your own thieves by smearing others. It’s the oldest and scariest tactic in the world. The true moral position is not to repeat like a parrot that “everyone steals”. This means having the decency to single out thieves, whatever their color, and demanding that they pay every last cent and every last day in prison.
Alejandro S. Ibarguen. Seville
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