My recent composition 07.10.07 [for just an hour ago]

On Critical Analysis: The Philippine Government

by: Frankie Toledo

Basically the question falls over and over again as to how our government has become these days. We had, ironically, created a monster that continues to haunts us down to our very roots of existence. For all those that who didn’t knew, the Philippines became the center for “Political Entertainment” in Asia for quite some time now and if you are to ask me why? This is where the reassessment, both us the citizens and the government, takes place.

If we try to put ourselves under critical scrutiny, we are only made to find out that what we fought on streets (rallies and others), voiced out on journals, wrote on books are somehow consequences of our own faltering choices. It’s not that I’m saying that I am against those who are doing these sorts of things, I am just simply considering the fact that somehow we had contributed to these crisis that we are dealing today.

Many of us blame the government for countless issues of corruption, suppression, and poverty that most of our fellow countrymen are suffering right now. It’s true at some point that indeed our government is exhibiting these dreadful realities but haven’t you gone further asking yourself: why do we have these kinds of political leaders? Or better yet, why had I ever trade my rights over worthless leaders?

Undeniably, political predisposition has always been an option for most of us Filipinos. Due to the call of poverty, others may say that they would rather deal with money than just religiously cast votes. Exasperating as it may seem, this is the REALITY.

Most of these cases are very rampant on almost all remote provinces and even on well-developed cities of our country. Trades of money [per head], sacks of rice and bundles of goods awaits the money-eager voters.

Surprisingly, this is just one of the many grounds of political bickering present in our country today. To name a few, we had cases of political dynasties [group of families running in office], political killings [due to political insecurities or appalling plots], and some cases of black propagandas against on-going officials. Needless to say, we are drawing ourselves to our very own destruction.

Where are our ethics people? We keep on hitting the government yet we are the one’s who put them in authority. It’s quite easy for us to throw stones at others while we lie down in luxury. Like we often do when we commit mistakes, we put the blame to others. This is definitely not an excuse.

Though the government is widely known for its immeasurable biases in terms of public service, we should also take into account that we are the one’s responsible for setting up this kind of government.

Morality, is there still such a thing? Maybe… As what my philosophy teacher would always say: “true to some may not be true to all.” There are still maybe a couple of dedicated leaders working on the administration today but hey, they had gone outnumbered.

If we set back into history we are widely known worldwide as freedom fighters, advocators of human rights and patriotic individuals. Where had all of these wonderful traits gone?

Forgive me, if most of my claims are much on the negative side of the government. You could not blame me for that is the very first thing that comes to my mind when talking about national leadership in our country.

I don’t want to be bias either so I will be talking now about some good points of the government. I have to acknowledge her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for withstanding oodles of glitches thrown at her seat during her terms of office. Hmmn. I am not into pro- neither anti-gloria people. I am just here to have a piece of my opinion regarding how she runs the government today.

Let’s see. I really appreciated how our peso-dollar exchange had advanced recently. You can really attest that somehow, our day-to-day expenditures lessens [at some instance] due to this partial economic growth that we are experiencing right now. Though not that huge development that we are expecting but at least, we could still wound our way up somehow.

There are also numbers of industrial developments in the country. Especially on the revival of NSC in our city [which had awaken from its deep slumber some years ago]. Infrastructures and road development where also given much priority. It was because of Gloria that there exist the West bound Terminal of CDO which is known for its wide capacity and clean area for passengers to wait for their respective trips. Again if I were to name all of the other governmental developments, it would take me some time to write. So, I guess it’s up to you to do research for some more (grins)

You see, though our government is often connoted negatively, it also has some good points that we often forgot or deliberately disregard. That is the basic problem most of us does. We, most of the time, tend to stress on the wrong doings of other people. We often focus on hitting on their weak points rather on their good contributions to our society.

In the case of our government, we cannot change the fact that for whoever runs in office the question of credibility still falls into introspection. I just wanted to stress out that instead of blaming the faults to our government, we should help them instead. This way we can work our way out of this shameful reality.

Next time, we should try to be vigilant with respect to our decisions and choices. Choose the one who is worthy for the seat. Do not be blinded by the money that is in exchange of your votes – our only living privilege. Let us be crusaders of good governance in our country. It is but through our hands that we weave our future. Make some sense and consider the facts that I have presented. It might change our mentality for some cause. And please do always consider John F. Kennedy’s famous lines: “Ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for the country.”

Comments

[missh c0r]

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