I live in barcelona. The sentiment among the youth is "the gloves are coming off". Parliament meets every Tuesday, yesterday was it. The last Tuesday of "freedom", for within 7 days Spanish gvt is set to ask for a EU bailout, but not to bail out the gvt, but to bail out the banks. Spain cannot print money and bailout its own banks unless it has huge reserves, which NO ONE has. ECB will have to "print" more money (more pixels in a screen). Yesterday was another day to mark in the calendar, the gvt had to set up THREE layers of barricades so the politicians could meet and give the country away. The security perimeters was set up quietly the nite before, at 3-4AM One radio commentator said "you know it is BAD when the gvt KNOWS it NEEDS protection from its own citizens, I hope THEY know this, and realize they are in uncharted territory for this generation". Folks...Spain is NOT Greece.