Our
politicians’ only interest is how they can pocket government resources. They only care about how much pork barrel a
sitting president can give them. It’s
always about them. They don’t care if
people are displaced or drowned by flooding caused by torrential rains. They simply lack foresight. Flooding is not new to us. We’ve always encountered it but we never
learned from it. The worst thing is, the
current Abnoy administration scrapping the anti-flooding project initiated by
his predecessor. If the project was not
cancelled, many lives and properties would have been spared. That’s our government, no foresight at all.
I know that
there is no law requiring the sitting president to be in the Ground Zero of the
calamity. However, as the father of the
nation, people expect him to be there. He
doesn’t have to hand over relief goods.
He just has to be there to assure his people that their president is
with them. The president was nowhere to
be seen despite the rains and impending calamity. When he showed up, he blamed people, bragged
that his administration is better prepared than his predecessor. It’s just unacceptable.
First and
foremost, blaming people who were ravaged by the flooding is the height of
being incentive. It’s not also the forum
to boast about oneself. FPGMAs
administration, for all its faults was visible during the times of crisis. You’ll see FPGMA inspiring her people. Unfortunately, Abnoy is always the last one
to come. He’s confined in the comforts
of Malacanang, playing PSP while people are suffering.
I’m not
saying that people were not entirely to blame with the flooding. Flooding is an indirect consequence of us
abusing our nature, cutting our trees.
We also throw our garbage everywhere and that clogged our drainage. But we have a government. We pay our taxes for those people to work
their butts off. Any Juan has the right
to demand that their politicians work.
We’re in a
situation where we should mend our ways.
It’s either we mend our ways or die drowning.
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