On becoming part of the solution
Posted on January 31, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
31 Jan 2007
Mr. Carrera, I have a big question for you. Which side of the law are you in? You made it sound that you are in the wrong side of the law when you said to Mr. Delfin, “I completely agree with your posting about the system and the solution-one execution of a heinous crime (especially plunder) a day will start the fixing of the problem away.” The solution you had presented here to start fixing the problem away is the execution of a heinous crime of plunders a day. That will be more than 300 heinous crimes a year. That is lots of crime executions that will surely increase the rate of crime in the country.
By the way, what problem are you talking about that needs to be fix. You said that this is just the start. Do you mean that something much bigger scheme is coming next? At a minimum of Php50,000,000.00 per crime of plunder a day, we will come out to a total of more than Php15,000,000,000.00 in a year. That is lots of taxpayers’ money wasted per year.
The point I am trying to make is that there are lots of problems around us that are masquerading as solutions. If we look at them closely, it will become apparent that they are actually part of the problems instead of being part of the solutions that they want us to believe. Good examples are the part of the constitution that cannot be implemented because of the absence of enabling law such as the people’s initiative as one of the methods to change the charter and also the part of the charter against political dynasties. Other good examples are the senators who are proud about their legislative performance of low efficiency at a cost of billions of taxpayers’ money. I do not think that the gridlock-prone (or shall we say greedlock-prone?) Senate of the current Congress became part of the solutions to the country’s problems considering the excessive wasted time they consumed investigating in aid of legislations.
Filipinos need to ask the Senate what overall accomplishment they had achieved in return to the billions of taxpayers’ money spent. Perhaps electorate can use their response in making intelligent decision whether to abolish or not the Senate. I wish that the next batch of senators who will be elected this coming May election will become part of the solutions instead of becoming part of the problems that are devastating the country.
Again, it is all in the hands of the electorate who are going to elect the next set of government officials. I hope and pray that they will make the right decision this time. One of the valid concerns of many Filipinos is the fact that some groups of people who wanted to kick out the current administration are unknowingly or knowingly helping groups of problematic clowns to take over or to return to power that can possibly result in a far worse or much more inferior state of affairs for the country and its people.
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