Earn Your Living, Not Just Collect It

The country is in the middle of a risky crossroad…taking a downward slope! Alarming! Knowing leaders are misleading instead of leading the people to betterment.

This is the putrid scent of partisan politics. We are but blindfolded, tricked by the luster of their promised reforms- superficial; and deprived of a wider concurrence to perhaps better understand their points and purpose. Dirty indeed is the realm of politics and its tentacles are pervasive and epidemic. It manifests the weaknesses of Filipino leadership and integrity towards impartial public service.

None of the previous Philippine leaders…entirely escaped charges of some sort of misconduct, yet some though ratified guilty over inconsiderable circumstances weren’t removed from office nor convicted for allegations of high crimes and misdemeanors. If most previous offenders escaped punishment, why make an exemption of the most recent? Is it not evident that at one time or another they became involved in such a detrimental and erroneous act?

I see no conviction to allow them obtain office.

Should they not just scrutinize their policies, their theories, their accomplishments, their character and identity and for comparative assessment in these and other respect rather than die hard aiming to regain our faith in them by doing things in bungle yet showing us the whites out of the blacks? They keep on propagating promises without appropriating much thought for it. Obviously, it is because they are aiming to get the most out of our account than simply suit into disguise to procure much of our trust and fidelity.

On the other hand, the aggravating condition of the Philippines’ political system is nevertheless preferable compared to the delinquencies of the heads of state in other countries between 1789 and 1969, which in time was simultaneously and similarly studied. Despite such spate of charges, no valid comparative judgment of the American Institution was categorically warranted.

Deterioration of traditional standards set in towards the end of passive governance as signaled by the tedious dictatory rule of late Philippine former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos during his supreme reign as National Chief Executive.

The impersonal quality of life was enhanced by the growing population of cities. Government also became more impersonal, and with greater budgets and more favors to grant and spend, more prone to corruption. Fraudulent contracts, sinister legislation, bought and paid for by those whom it benefits, trading of offices and votes; and other forms of public treachery became predominantly common that nowadays we find it hard to amputate.

Why can they not be humane? Most political giants have become hardly incognito into an extent that we find it hard to lend them the chance to progress they vowed to provide in the first place. Can they blame us for over complaining these and that when all the while they were driving us nuts and treating us like preposterous nincompoops?

What started to be an electoral fraud augmented to be something more profoundly worse? Remember you are leaders…behave, persevere and you shall earn the noblest compensation ever to be granted to a public servant-trust. Consider the parameters of your leadership; nonetheless, it’s your deed that counts first and foremost.

Your abilities are basic and fundamental, but, moreover, your attitude towards philanthropy remains a buoyant factor to win the hearts of the populace. It’s the sentiments of the majority that imperil your credibility as your duties are deemed God-given. In spite of all the demand for speed, the complexity of the probable, and all the vast sums of money involved, charity must always stay the main concern of entrusted leaders. Not the lure of fame or the deluding fins of self aggrandizement.

For principle-empowered rulers, stay the same way you are seen and care to construct a better milieu for your constituents to live in. Redeem yourselves from the stains created by shameless duplicity, equivocation and falsehood of your political brethrens. Leave the cold cash behind and promote equality and equilibrium of rational governance and service for equivalence.

Assume to yourselves not supremacy, not the authority nor the powers conferred by the constitution, but the obligation you ought to provide to your subordinates and above all to the general public.

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