Philippine Politics - Graft & Corruption


Graft and corruption has been a problem for several countries. I would like to emphasize on the politics in Philippines in this article.

If you are a Filipino I'm sure you know and are familiar with the deals involving the President and the First Gentleman or the first family. The first gentleman should not be involved in any government deals in the first place. It is of his interest in making money that got him involved in several controversial deals. One is the ZTE deal which was just cancelled by the president a few weeks ago since it was revealed to the public including the money involved and the debt it will put the Philippines to. A witness also came out to the open and talk in the senate probe about his involvement in the said deal, despite the fact that there are a lot of death threats. When he arrived in the Philippines, thanks to the media that people were made aware that this witness is missing, and later on found out that his passport did not have a stamp from the Bureau of Immigration that he entered and is in the Philippines. Which made people think that there is a possibility that he would have been wiped out to keep his mouth shut.

Even after disclosing the deal to the public, and calling for the president to resign, it is not enough to bring down the president. As long as the president is in control of the military. It is impossible to bring the present administration down.

In the first place, the appointed heads or directors that are handling the military are bribed to stay by the presidents side. And a fact that they knew that there will never be an end to this battle for power and authority in this country they will maintain their stand to stay by the presidents side.

Even it is obvious that the president is guilty, who will the people elect to replace the president. All the public servants are guilty of graft and corruption. It is just a matter of how much you took and how much you give to the country in terms of what they did for the country. These public officials spend the taxpayers money as if they own them and are asking for more.

A government should be for the people by the people, not by personal interest, it should be for the good of all not just majority.

People should stop and think if they too are guilty, a simple example would be the traffic rules, if drivers are caught violating any traffic rules, they will try to bribe the officer in exchange for their license. In any government office, there is red tape, if you need your documents process immediately, just give a certain amount of money and it will be done right away, there will be no corrupt officials if we simply don't try to corrupt them.

You can simply mis declare any item in the bureau of customs and evade tax just simply pay the proper amount to the person at authority.

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