Gloria Arroyo For Congresswoman? WTF!

Our honorable and most respected president isn't resigning from politics yet. Gloria Arroyo filed her certificate of candidacy as congresswoman for the 2nd district of her hometown Pampanga. This is the first time that an outgoing president of the Republic of the Philippines is running for a lower position. What does this implies?

Some observers say Arroyo is running for congress to maintain her immunity to law suits that are awaiting for her when she steps down from the presidency. This will be a wise move for her. Tons of graft and corruption allegations hounded her presidency and civil society groups are just waiting for her to step down from the presidency and remove her immunity from suits.

Her personal reason for her move is according to her, it's the people of Pampanga that urged her to run for congress, and she just answered to their call. It can be remembered that a lot of ordinary people and almost all local officials of her district flocked to the palace to convince her to run. That, according to her, convinced her to file her candidacy today. Scripted or not, the people's march to the palace is now the main scape goat of madam Gloria in seeking a position in Congress.

But no matter what she say, there's only one thing that I see here - and it spells G-R-E-E-D.

Wowowee and the Pests in the Government

I watched Wowowee yesterday and a certain contestant caught my attention that I feel I am going to blog it today. The contestants were "Basurero/basureras" and stories of poverties from them made some of the audience to shed tears.

One of the contestants brought with her an ID of her grandchild and showed it to Willie Revillame while the poor woman was crying. According to her, more or less 5 times she and her grandchild went to Wowowee and tried to approach Willie but to no avail (but I want to make it clear that it was not Willie who refused to see them).

The reason why they wanted to approach Willlie during those times is that they want to ask for a nebulizer since the child is suffering from asthma.Unfortunately, the child died last August due to her ailment since her medical needs were not provided due to poverty.

In that very moment, what I thought of was the wide corruption happening in our government. The one million peso dinner of  our beloved president, the corruption scandals that rocked this administration and now, the congressmen who are going to the US just to watch Manny Pacquiao fight with the government's money.

All of those dirty money pocketed by these pests in the government, if properly disbursed, how many lives has been saved from those meaningless deaths? If only they have conscience...

As a result, those impoverish people are losing their trust in the government. Imagine, the said contestant wanted to ask help from Willie and not from the government because she knows that her concern may only fall on deaf ears. Ears of the pests masquerading as public servants who have no other agenda but to enrich themselves.

Don't let the people lost their trust from you, pests. Magbago na kayo!