Ostentious display of wealth prohibited among govt officials prohibited RA 6713

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Its scandalous that the children and wives of politicians are being bashed at soc media because they say, the sins of parents are not the sins of children.  But there are laws that prohibit such display of profligacy:   RA 6713:   

     Section 4h:    h) Simple living. - Public officials and employees and their families shall lead modest lives appropriate to their positions and income. They shall not indulge in extravagant or ostentatious display of wealth in any form.

Take note nepo babies and DPWH contractors too.  Maybe the law declared it so because it hurts.  Its like rubbing salt into an open wound.   It must include also government contractors and suppliers?

Why do crooks, thieves illegal businessmen go to a casino? Or why do casinos flourish?

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Its not because they want to enjoy, or relax. But because they are laundering money.   As we have seen in the case of Alcantara.  How do they launder the money. ?

They go to a casino and exchange the cash for chips.  They can do any of these things:

1.  Lose some of the money and exchange some of the cash for managers check and declare the managers

     check as winning

 2.  Arrange for a game where somebody wins and takes out the winning as managers check.

The winning has thus been laundered quickly.  

So as why many laundromats flourish, (there are many dirty clothes and people are tired of washing clothes manually) So do casinos.  Many people are laundering dirty money.  

This post hate casinos.  I do not admire tycoons who are into casinos.  They do not add to the economy but they destroy and subtract.  They are useful only to the owners who rake in billions and help steal billions from the govt coffers through money laundering.   They propagate a false sense of success to the winner and make others addicted.

In many cities in USA where there were casinos, blight has crept in and rise and fall of the casino players  contribute to this.  Also crimes abound.     How much do we know about Vegas lately?

Why Las Vegas is dying

Scams in Las Vegas (and its legal)

If we are wondering how we got into this, casino is one reason.  Like pogos and online games.  , they should have been banned

All that glitters cant be gold; leading a luxurious life need not be glamorous or to wowed!

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Due to this investigation of corruption and we relate this to beautiful clothes, cars, mansions of celebs, we need not feel slighted nor feel less privileged anymore.   Whether they wear AP, or Rolex or Philip Patek or Lamborghini Miura, or a Ferrari F40 or they are fashion icon wearing fabulous jewelry, we should lessen our admiration of them.

There was a classmate (he is now deceased) who wears a necklace of high karat necklace who used to be a contractor at DE 2 at a nearby province.  The DE close to him was a kumare pa.

This post met a contractor also for DE in an island province.  She is a HO account of a bank and was known to order closure of a jewelry store in MM.  She has properties in key cities of Asia.  When I met her she wore earrings rings, bracelets of diamond (high karat) and a gold watch with diamonds.  It could have been several millions.  

But now they are probably hiding these stuff.    They could have sourced from illegal deals or worse stolen from taxpayers money.  As this investigations are ferreting them out  It is safer not to show the spoils of theft and besides it is prohibited under RA 6713, 4h

Not so glamorous to be wearing expensive stuff