Spain - The Economic Reality.

'Spain now has more than 5 million people (22.9 per cent of its residents) out of work - and recent growth data suggests the situation is only going to get worse.
The country's economy shrank, by 0.3 per cent, for the first time in two years in the fourth quarter of 2011.'
The expats out here from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Belgium et al, are pouring vast sums into the Spanish economy via second homes, pensions, investments and savings. A certain amount of employment is created from workmen of these nationalities servicing these communities. These expats are a social positive.

Nonetheless, there are the 'other' immigrants aplenty from N. Africa and the Eastern members of the EU who, as economic migrants are 'taking Spanish jobs'.

The last part at least, is a tad familiar.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102074/Spain-haunted-ghost-towns-built-boom-years-unemployment-tops-5million.html#ixzz1mcAxIQ6m