What Makes Brussels More Equal Than Others

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

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[Ken Barrows]

Oh, it’s logical for Greece to remain in the Euro if its citizens wants to drive en masse. If Greece doesn’t have a goal to simplify its lifestyle, it’s just pi**ing in the wind.

[Euraffex]

A couple of small comments to your post – just to get the details right:
1) It is impossible to give an exact figure (such as the €2500 you mention) for what the assistant of an MEP makes, since this depends on a number of factors (such as which country they are employed in).
2) The budget for assistance that an MEP has available, has to cover both employees in the European Parliament (so-called Accredited Parliamentary Assistants(also called APAs)), employees in their home country (also known as Local Assistants), as well as any interns (something many MEPs make use of).
3) The pay budget also has to cover travels for staff, both to Strasbourg and between the home country and Brussels when needed. For information it cost about €800 per time an APA (or intern) goes to Strasbourg.
4) Unlike the APAs, locally employed assistants have to pay taxes and social contributions where applicable.
5) Some MEPs have more than 10 locally employed Assistants
6) If MEPs do not use the budget for salaries completely they do NOT gain access to the unspent money
7) APAs make between €1,694.21 (grade 1) and €7,802.33 (grade 19) every month – depending on what they negotiate with their boss. If you want to know more about what APAs make you can read a couple of our blog posts from last year: https://www.euraffex.eu/what-do-assistants-in-the-european-parliament-actually-make/ and https://www.euraffex.eu/what-do-assistants-really-earn-part-ii/

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

You’re not telling us much of anything, Eurrafex (I’m having to guess you’re a paid employee of Eurrafex, which makes their money off if European Affairs Expertise). The relevant info I think would be how much the lowest spender spends vs the biggest spender. And then look at why that is so.

But yeah, I’m biased, and I make no secret of that. What’s happening in Greece and Ukraine and the refugee crisis merely confirms to me yet again that Europe in its present shape and form is a morally bankrupt entity. And I don’t thnk that you guys see it that way, it’s your meal ticket after all.

[Dr. Diablo]

Actually, the point may not be the absolute salary of individual MPs but the mind-bending bureaucratic cost of the EU. Remember, the cost of the EU is still ON TOP of the cost of the national governments, which is in addition to your local governments. Adding another whole layer of government is expensive, and the EU is demonstrably not concerned with the cost.

All these expenses are paid by someone. And that someone is the people. Since Corporations and billionaires can recoup their costs with lobbying, the entire cost of government lies exclusively on the people. Generally, the poorest people, least able to defend themselves from predation. In the poorest countries, likewise least able to defend themselves.

So whether ministers are collecting E200,000 and 5-star hotels for work they never did (which many expose’s and their expense accounts prove) or whether they make E20,000/worker, the EU edifice (which is NOT EVEN A DEMOCRACY in that bureaucrats have NO obligation to obey the EU parliament) all those costs for sham, show, phony ministers comes directly from the people starving in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Whatever their intent, their budget is directly removing aid for refugees, so people are evicted, killed, and dispersed while they eat E500 dinners and take the week off back home for more E500 dinners with lobbyists.

You can’t reasonably argue this isn’t happening. We have the expense reports, we have the logs of meetings they do and don’t attend, and we have the news reports of what the EU costs continent wide vs the news of national hardships.

If parliament is irrelevant anyway, shouldn’t we just take their paychecks and use them to help the citizens? We can just declare Barrosso Chancellor to the King and go home. I mean, the illusion seems to be unnecessarily expensive. Does anyone still believe it?

[Diogenes Shrugged]

When you allow, and even encourage parasitic narcissists and criminal psychopaths to build colossal empires with stolen money, it should come as no surprise if they begin to see you as competition when the money runs out. So they squeeze out every drop of blood they can before casting your empty husk to the wind.

In nature, parasites tend to prey on other species, so perhaps our parasitic politicians and elites would be more accurately called “cannibals.” But hey, the media love them dearly, so let’s call them “celebrity cannibals.”

They’ve made no secret of the fact that radical, worldwide depopulation is their ultimate stepping stone to total planetary control (i.e. “globalism” or “NWO”). Not that burgeoning human populations aren’t a tragedy, especially for all the other species we live in such extreme disharmony with. But most of us weren’t consulted when the elites drew up their plans establishing who would survive their proposed die-offs.

Which raises the question of who will prevail, the parasites or the hosts?

Either way, the status quo will rapidly reestablish itself. From that most libertarian of documents, the Declaration of Independence: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed …” At least, right up to the point that that consent no longer appears necessary. So you see, as long as anarchism is frowned upon, and as long as some people adopt THEFT as their business model, the cannibals will always have an elevated niche to occupy in the human biome.

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