European Parliament Exposed

[Husar]

What joke?

It's not like we don't have lobbying but the US congressmen and senators are even deeper in the pockets of big business than our guys.
I'd rather have overpaid people who serve the people 50% than underpaid ones who serve big business 100%.

The whole Euro crisis thing wasn't caused by MEPs, it was caused by the directly and democratically elected local politicians who also got a say in certain EU matters. The MEPs on the other hand keep representing European and general human interests much stronger than any of the local governments do, despite all the naysaying that's going on.

I could just as well make a positive report about the integrity and moral stability of our politicians because they don't raise their own pay by 100% every week. There used to be a time when politics were only viable for the rich because only they earned enough to do the whole (then unpaid) politician thing as a hobby, do you want to return to something similar to this?

If you want something done well, you have to throw more money at it because we still have a capitalist system. That means if you think they're not doing a good job, we aren't paying them enough yet. Unless you want communism, but even there the politicians had more luxury than anyone else. In monarchy it's even worse, name a system where politicians don't get a lot of money and don't ruin the country through enormous corruption.