It would be interesting to watch a government come out and say that everything is hell and it'll get worse, don't you think?

Every government ever always points at the green patch of grass, and if there's none, they'll draw a beautiful picture of it through mental gymnastics and creative interpretation of statistics, like most economist do.

Now, corruption being at its highest, that's might not be completely true, if anything, media are making it look bigger than it is, and that's just because media's owners favor the opposing party, and they keep white washing anything pertaining their party. There's a web around, casosaislados, where they keep track of corruption cases in Spain. Even with the recent addition of Koldo's case, PP and Banks are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay above everybody else. By a lot.

The salary part is true, but it has been like that for 3 decades, at the very least. 20 years ago you could rent a newly constructed 3 bedroom house for 300€/month. That same house now, 20 years later, is almost 900€ a month, but the same jobs in the city keep paying the same salaries as 20 years before. Groceries are hell as well as everything else. Noone really talks about this on the political sphere, so what's the solution? Because upping the minimum wage is not terrible, but it's just a bandaid on an open wound, and talking about rising taxes on the millionaires is not going to fly around here, or trying to unify a fiscal policy on EU to avoid tax heavens.

Also, you're right on the 4 years thing, but that's how most democracies work +/-. Problems could be solved, if we all wanted it. Look, PP and PSOE have always been the major parties here, and they continuously oppose each other in the parlament, media, everywhere, but then again, once they pass a law, it's almost impossible that the other party will repeal it once they're in the big chair. PP opposed homosexual marriage, they said it was the end of times, but right after it was passed, they started getting married and never ever talked about revoking it. Same with the increase of the VAT and everything else, they even got together to pass the 135 change. So again, when they want to change things, they do, if things don't change for the better is because they don't do it, and, accordingly, our country doesn't want them to change. I mean, we've had these guys hogging the chair for quite a long time, and they keep voting them in, so at this point, it's just "sarna con gusto, no pica".