Napoles and Pork Barrel.
Two synonymous terms nowadays.
She could have done something for the country. She could
have returned all the money. She could have helped the poor. She could have
helped and unending list of people. But she did not!
Jane Napoles has allowed herself to become the slave of
money. She truly ingenious, as all other exceptional Filipinos are, but in a
negative sense.
What I truly hated about her was hearing and seeing on
television all her household helpers being commanded to invent names. Her drivers,
her helpers? All of them inventing names for people who should have been receiving
funds. It was truly disgusting when I know I am part of the citizenry who in
many ways pay taxes. I am part of that lump sum which could have been brought back
to us in an advantageous forms, but was unfortunately taken to the drain… going
to Napoles’s bank accounts!
The Bureau of Internal Revenue has been calling to people to
pay taxes. My mother, a public school teacher has her salary deducted monthly for
taxes. But where has all the taxes gone? Ordinary people has been religiously
paying for it because they are afraid of not following the law. We are afraid
of its claws.
Senators. Congressmen. Big people. Law-makers. They aren’t
afraid of law. We have entrusted in them the funds; the taxes; the life-blood
of our country. We have elected and chose them for those positions because we
believed in them. Now that they have unjustly used PORK BARREL for their
benefit, they must answer for it. They must be made to pay for their
wrongdoings.
President Noynoy lead us to follow the right way and he was
able to lift the economy up but other people take the opportunity to lead for
granted. I believe that a lot will be
gained and a little will be lost if the system is abolished and the funds
directed to better targeted programs. Napoles
has been in league with the involved senators and congressmen. I hope that same
claw from the government who placed fear on ordinary people’s lives must equal
its power to putting “big people” who stole from us in jail.
My only wish is that the government will not stop until
justice is served.
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