* This is my column published in Revista Capital, owned by a comparison with the political scientist Kenneth Bunker. ( If you want to see the original, click here )
The issue of subsistence "wages" of parliamentarians has been on everyone's lips in recent weeks. The decision of the tragicomic MPs allowances increased benzene is not only lacking in discretion, but shows a lack of reality of our representatives. But one thing is how little common sense of the honorable and quite another is to think that wages in the public service should resemble Franciscan poverty.
One of the main aspirations of our country is to have a diligent and responsible political class, which protects the interests of the public and held in a true sense of right common. We are constantly looking for those who, full of sound vocation, with the impetus to put their hands in the muddy world of politics. But we can not pretend that all this activity is fed, only, of the goodwill of those involved. We need, then give them in this case, parliamentarians, the necessary resources to enable them to make fitness work.
Lately, the image of empty boardroom merely our opinion lead to believe that the country pays an army of drones who spend their time playing football. But the reality is far from that. While there will always be bad elements prefer personal gain or benefit to the sincere service, we can not carry that moniker to a majority of parliamentarians lead at every day, to its work and district policy. How do we expect a deputy or a senator pay level advisors to support it in its legislative work, if we do not provide those resources? How do we expect those whose districts or constituencies parliamentarians are flown vast territory and gather the concerns of their constituents if they do not facilitate the process? Propose, therefore, a system to ensure the proper use of public resources, which follow different mechanisms for allocating money according to the needs of parliamentary and its territory or constituency. An example to follow is that of the Library of Congress, which provides experts in various subjects to the deputies and senators, for the nurture of content and analysis. Another possible reform is to implement an adequate system of accountability, whereby all citizens can know where and how you spend your money. None of these procedures, or others who can create, involves a reduction of resources to this important branch of government, but a proper redistribution of the same. If we follow a wave of cheap smear, which tells us that all our representatives are bad and that everyone should go home, just do not bring anything to the construction the country. Democracy costs, and long, but worth it.
One of the main aspirations of our country is to have a diligent and responsible political class, which protects the interests of the public and held in a true sense of right common. We are constantly looking for those who, full of sound vocation, with the impetus to put their hands in the muddy world of politics. But we can not pretend that all this activity is fed, only, of the goodwill of those involved. We need, then give them in this case, parliamentarians, the necessary resources to enable them to make fitness work.
Lately, the image of empty boardroom merely our opinion lead to believe that the country pays an army of drones who spend their time playing football. But the reality is far from that. While there will always be bad elements prefer personal gain or benefit to the sincere service, we can not carry that moniker to a majority of parliamentarians lead at every day, to its work and district policy. How do we expect a deputy or a senator pay level advisors to support it in its legislative work, if we do not provide those resources? How do we expect those whose districts or constituencies parliamentarians are flown vast territory and gather the concerns of their constituents if they do not facilitate the process? Propose, therefore, a system to ensure the proper use of public resources, which follow different mechanisms for allocating money according to the needs of parliamentary and its territory or constituency. An example to follow is that of the Library of Congress, which provides experts in various subjects to the deputies and senators, for the nurture of content and analysis. Another possible reform is to implement an adequate system of accountability, whereby all citizens can know where and how you spend your money. None of these procedures, or others who can create, involves a reduction of resources to this important branch of government, but a proper redistribution of the same. If we follow a wave of cheap smear, which tells us that all our representatives are bad and that everyone should go home, just do not bring anything to the construction the country. Democracy costs, and long, but worth it.
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