Once again we have been invited to participate at the most boring and meaningless elections. We don't know what we are supposed to be voting for. ... here in Spain, where I live but am not allowed to vote, there is one of the two big parties trying to gather votes by stating "Solutions now". This is extremely wise, as everybody wants "solutions now", specially if the problem has never been specified, nor has the solution ever be pronounced, except for the usual common places: "we want to create more jobs", " we will increase security". And these people want us to vote for them, so they can travel between Brussels, Strassbourg, the main european capitals and their home (where they spend most of the time, making valuable contacts to perpetrate their easy living.
What the hell do they do all day long in the European Parliament? It's what journalists have been complaining about for ages: we don't know!
This seems to be fruit of the ever-ongoing specialization and "bringing things to the next level of abstraction". By now you have to be a specialist to vote for who is supposed to be representing you in Europe! ... what is this for? Could it be that there is a certain class in our society who does not like democracy as we know it and therefore had to bring the whole issue one level "further up", so these peasants loose interest and we can handle things as has been done 500 years ago.
Could we try and remind "our european leaders" what the EU has been created for? ... and now let's see what it has developed into! Is there any connection what so ever between an institution that was meant to enhance peace and cooperation and a bureaucratic "Über-Apparat" that will soon regulate the amount of crap we are allowed to flush down our toilets on a daily basis, after having discussed the issue for five years, as there are many aspects to be taken into account like: per capita size of the inhabitants of a determined living space ... how would you define "living space" (another three years!), and the do you measure it by age, weight, size or income? ... no will have to hire an external team of matemathicians so they can work out a formula which noone but themselves understand by which we can regulate this and assign the amount of water that can be used to flush your toilet, so we can balance our taxes throughout Europe. It would be a shame if someone in Romania would have to pay less for his "little bundle" than someone in Germany ... but what if this German goes to live to Romania? ... will he pay as a Ferman which for his physical and cultural constitution should be (unless he has an immigrant background and therefore different eating habits and subsequently digestive conditions) ... and then we get to ask ourselves, why should he vote in Germany, as he is not even paying taxes in Germany? Why should he not vote in the country he is paying his taxes, this way at least he can have the ilusion of influencing the decision on what is done with the taxes he pays. SHIT! There we are back to the "democracy question" we wanted to avoid by "expanding Europe"!
I will keep on voting in Europe, even though I think we may be perpetrating useless politicians that are absolutely obsolete on national level and then get "promoted" to Europe, as the German CSU tried with Mrs Hohlmayer (I don't even know how to spell this lady's name) ... I just know that she's been a TOTAL waste of tax-payer's money, and as she was hopeless they tried to find her a space in Europe. I did not follow the career any further, I just hope she has not achieved it and will now have time to raise her children (if she has any) in a better way her parents did with her.
