Helping the Government
It is really been the habit of the government to charge us for their losses and most of the time, we haven't seen any real recovery. The government is again planning to raise prices of energy coming from Napocor and SSS is at the same time going to raise the monthly contributions of its members. These are aside from their plan to impose further taxes and raising fees on some government services.
Can't we have any option or something that can be done in order that we can get our money's worth. If for example we hire a contractor to do some repair in our house, there will be a contract, for them to do their job and some service and on our part for us to put up the money to pay for them after "satisfactory" doing their service. Either party would then have a recourse if ever a problem arises.
But in reality, there seems nothing like this regarding our relation with the government. Most of the time we are in the losing end and suffer the consequences of their inefficiencies. I cannot recall if there was any official who have ever been charged or punished, either by being inefficient or guilty of corrupt practices. The only thing you can hear is that the official involved would be transferred or removed from his post.
Will it always have to be like that. Everytime, we should help the government to recover their losses. Can we not even be entitled to know what happened, how and why a certain agency incurred such losses. Of course there's always some investigation, but the truth is there have never been any success in finding who is responsible. What they always have are reasons, or if there has to be somebody who should be responsible the finger is always pointed away from them.
Can we ever feel that it is just right to help our government?
posted by santi at
5:05 AM
7 Comments:
BAka naman the government is banking on the premise of "Ask not what your country can do for your, but what you can do for your country" ni Kennedy. ;-)
Bayi,
Reduction of the loans? I don't think the country's foreign lenders or the govt are concern about that. The behavior of the Philippine govt. is that they are trying now to comply to their instructions (improve tax collection) in order to get further loans which is the only way they can solve the budget deficit as the portion of debt repayment is getting bigger and bigger percentage wise against the national budget. This situation is aggravated by losses incurred by some government agencies. My point is that unless the government show positive steps in solving these problems we will be drowned deeper and deeper in this crisis. If the people will just contribute money or pay further taxes without solving these problems, I just feel that we might survive few years but in the end suffer much more grave consequences.
Tito Rolly,
There are more people who are willing to do something to their government, that is if it is really worth it. If the government had just shown good performance in the past, they do not need to ask, they will be more than enough who will be willing to volunteer not just their wealth.
although i agree that our government is chaotic, egotistic, corrupt and all that (not generalizing though), i think to say that we shouldn't feel compelled to do our share is a tad bit cynical.
i can see and understand where you are coming from santi. believe me. i've felt like that a few times. but i never really make such kind of a resolve because although democracy and the concept of government as a whole is imperfect, its noble principle is that grand that it deserves to be embraced. it's full of sh*t i know, but i personally wouldn't want to give up 'coz that's a negative response to the problem. it wouldn't do any good.
i respect your opinion but i just want to tell you that all is not lost. there's still some honesty, decency, and good will in there. we have to hang on.
btw, i linked you up. hope you don't mind. :)
Hi Rache,
Good to know you are still around and thanks for the enlightenment.
Cool blog, interesting information... Keep it UP »
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