Social and political criticisms
All the elected officials last May take their oath of office today - a rain and typhoon filled day. Perhaps it does foretell the troubled and difficult journey ahead for the officials.
For most of us, both the governed and the officials, some clarifications have to be made on the role of government. Government can not be an employer or providential. Its role is to govern rather than take care of the needs of the underprivileged and less fortunate. It does not have the resources to do that. The European countries that did it are now bankrupt.
Many citizens think it is the government's duty, including that of the officials to provide them with their daily needs; forgetting that the duty to live and survive, and thrive belongs to the individual. We are all against politics of patronage and dcpendency and feudalism yet this action is clearly that.
"Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you" (John F Kennedy) should resonate in to the ears and heads of this fellow citizen parasites/dependents.
The elected officials, one Senator in particular pander to his particular need of the electorate. And at the end of the day, we do not alleviate poverty; we worsen it. If we have majority of our citizens working hard to produce goods and services, then we may get out of the pithole of poverty.
If we still continue to see a beeline of citizens at DWSD, PCSO, the social secretary of the Mayor, then nothing has changed and the whole cycle of dependency continues
