Friday, April 25, 2008

It Takes 2 to TANGO...

I really feel bad for our country. Problems keep coming. Kung tao siguro ang Pilipinas baka mabaliw na siya sa lahat ng problema niya. Imagine after the ZTE scandal, now a rice crisis faces the country. Are we, the Filipinos, really that bad that we keep encountering problems?

Hay I keep asking myself what the problem really is. I simply can’t see if the problem is the citizens, the style of government or the people running the government. Well what can we do to solve the problem of the country or reduce its problems?

If we really want to solve the problems, the citizens and the government should work hand in hand. Firstly, with regards to the corruption problem of the country, I believe that the government is not the only cause of this. I believe that the citizens contribute as well because some of us allow it to happen. Sometimes, we are even the ones who initiate the problem. This happens when a Filipinos bribe a government official or a government worker. If Filipinos would keep on doing this, the government officials and workers would always have in mind that they can always get easy money. This will become like an addiction and this will go on unless we stop doing it. This goes for the part of ordinary citizens.

For the government officials and workers, they should keep in mind that they were elected or placed in that work to serve us and not their pockets. They should keep in mind that we trusted them with our future. These officials and workers should keep in mind that there will be no corruption if they won’t accept the bribes given to them. This will be the first step that they need to take if they really want to eliminate corruption in the country. If these people will not accept bribes then no one will be encouraged to do it

A call for CHA CHA and reforms is being pushed by the government officials but can’t they see that no matter what reform they implement, as long as the mentality of the Filipinos is not changed, the problems of the country will not be solved?

I just hope that the Filipinos and the government can work hand in hand to help the country.

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