Philippine Politics

I want change. For more than years, Filipinos experience more difficulties – poverty and corruption. Is there any hope for change? Are there any fresh substances that the new administration offers? I hope that starting today; people will choose the person who they think is the hope of our country. A person who they believe has the capability to heal the sick old administration.

It is quite alarming that the rate of poverty is increasing every period. In that case, many children will be abandoned and die because of hunger. These children blame their parents for living a miserable life. The parents blame the government for not giving them jobs to sustain their needs. As to the Government, who is the ministry of our nation that has the great role to lessen this problem? One way is increasing the employment rate by adding more livelihood programs and businesses using the people’s fund. Another is strengthening the law about child labor so that their will be no children working and begging.

               

            In terms of Government projects, many government officials do not declare the exact amount of money that was being used. Instead, they practice “patong” in which the exact amount used is being filled with any additional amount. That additional amount will be kept in the pockets of those people who build the project.

              For me politics means power, the power to serve, but as we see the meaning of politics is inverted to corruption, manipulation and control. As a student, this dirty trick makes me think that politics is a dirty game.