Far From Neutral Notions – Philippine politics, culture and stuff

That’s how I’d describe the state of the nation under GMA.

• Congress has just doubled it’s Pork Barrel allocation — with some 3+ billion pesos being diverted from the retirement funds of government employees.
• Hundred thousand peso desktop machines that my old Sempron can run circles around.
• Fifty thousand peso lampposts.
• An apathetic middle class.
• An opportunistic upper class.
• A fatalistic lower class.
• The Marcoses and Atong Ang bribing the government with multi-million peso deals and calling it “settlement”. Is it any wonder some dumb general would want to get in on the action?
• An Opposition that’s only marginally better than the administration.
• The government and military suppressing the people’s basic rights — again.
• A blatantly biased Commission on Elections.
• Extra-judicial killings.
• Rampant drug use — and no, I don’t even consider marijuana under that statement.
• A Justice Secretary with no real concept of Justice.
• A National Security Adviser that places said security under risk.
• Ronaldo Puno.
• Mike Arroyo.
• Gloria Arroyo.
• The Marcoses.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg — who knows what’s gotten past the scrutiny of the media. Damn, this is depressing. No pretentious essay this time, it’s 4AM, and I just wanted to make a list of reasons why I’m so drained. It can get so overwhelming, sometimes.

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