Philippines hit for 'hiding' poor at prestige event

Philippines hit for 'hiding' poor at prestige event

Potemkin. Potemkin. Potemkin.

I actually had a little respect for Ricky Carandang, before all this, and I still do. After all he still tries to do his job, and that should not be easy - with the Chief being as insensitive as he is.

The deal here is that we Filipinos have voted in a President out of the sentiment of loss due to the death of "heroes". Utterly unprepared for, we rode on the wave of emotion again and found ourselves here. With an incompetent bench running a beat down country.

I wonder how my countrymen let our public servants get away with this. Outsourcing companies under foreign ownership sack for misses less than these and we elected all these clowns into office. This is the main reason why we are poor. Never mind the amount of children for now, that's an unharnessed wealth of resource somewhere along the line. We are poor because we are still enslaved, waiting for a messiah to set us free, and deliver a golden age. We have not outgrown four hundred years of Spanish rule, not yet.

Well we've been free for quite some time. Most of us just don't know it yet. And so, we fall prey over and over again. I keep wishing Marcos fought on, a couple of shots would have discouraged all of these vulture families that have become ascendant since they left. At least back then, we were not that poor.