Walang hiya

How many more times will we allow unscrupulous men and women to trick us into believing that they are after change and not their personal interests?


Twenty five years after the first EDSA, and we feel like we are hollow inside. We are a beautiful people living in a beautiful country. We are a very decent people. Most of us are honest. Most work for every single cent that goes into feeding our families. We pay our taxes. We follow the laws. We pray to our Gods, and we lavish ourselves with praise for Him, Who lives forever.


We don't deserve these things. We don't deserve men who think of themselves as higher than us. We don't deserve men of uniform stealing billions from us. We don't deserve men wearing barongs and Amerikanas with deep pockets for keeping our monies. 


God, why do you give us evil men for officials? 


Who will protect us from our protectors?


Are these men so insensitive that they are not affected by the thought of they using other's people's monies to feed their families? Are their stomachs so strong that they can eat food they bought from illegal means?


Are these men so crass and so inhumane that they steal these monies and for what? To fatten themselves and for other people to praise them for their wealth, ill-gotten and ill-deserved?


Woe to them, those who stole our monies, our hard-earned monies. As a father, I work very hard for my salary. I work and slave myself to death just to feed my family, and here, you'll find and hear some thief working the bank and stealing everything with just one signature?


Hey, Mr. Garcia, are you listening? Hey, Mr. Reyes, are you even aware of what you did? Wala na bang hiyang natitira sa inyong dalawa? Our soldiers in the field are sacrificing their very lives just for you to live comfortably in your homes.