What do we have a Parliament for?

I was just thinking a bit more about that $100,000,000 of our money that PM Paul just splashed out to earn the admiration of the international do-gooder crowd -- can he do that? Can he just pull the money out, hand it over, then turn around to bask in the applause? And what about all that other money that he's been pulling out of his magic duffel bag and sprinkling all over as he skips across the country? Isn't there some sort of mechanism by which these expenses can get scrutinized by represenatives of the citizens of this country? And if not, why do we bother with this charade of Parliament? Why don't we just elect a dictator every four years to make all the government's decisions? All that flashy show with the Mace and the Speaker of the House and the Honourable Member from Somewhere-You-Never-Heard-Of insults our intelligence.