Filipinos don’t want to be hungry, nor do they want to be sickly and stupid. Thus, in a recent survey, majority of Filipinos want our newly elected legislators to prioritize agriculture, education and health care. It is surprising the general populace now know what is good for them. Is this connected to the sobering reality many celebrity candidates lost in the recent midterm elections?
We will get what we wish for. All the proper legislations, or a good number of these will be passed. But only up to that. As to implementation, it will altogether be another matter. We have a lot of good laws, yet we are still living wretched lives.
As one political commentator said, their city is tough on really small taxpayers like those who have to push carts on the streets to sell young coconuts in order to earn a living, but it lets the country’s richest family’s tax liability in the hundreds of millions of pesos to remain unpaid. This is public knowledge and we allow it to happen. As simple as that.
If the President really cares for the people, he should concentrate on the proper implementation of laws starting at the uppermost rungs of society where members of his extended family belong. Then slowly go down until the pushcart pushers and their ilk on the streets are reached. By then, the Philippines should already be well developed, economically and politically. But that would be a pie in the sky. Yet we have to start somewhere.
Otherwise, the people had spoken and to just ignore them will end up in serious consequences for which the First Family is not ignorant about. They know it could happen and as history proved so many times, those who become too comfortable ignoring the masses, will wake up one day in an irreversible regrettable situation.**