President-elect Noynoy Aquino and his supporters’ mantra today is “patience” claiming change and reforms cannot be done overnight, which is an echo of what US President Barack Obama said, after he won the polls, and for which he is losing his supporters. Before the polls of course, nothing about change being difficult to come overnight was mentioned, but then again, such are what politicians’ promises — including Noynoy’s — are made of. But there is another mantra coming from the yellows, which is one that says Aquino cannot come up with changes and reforms in the government and needs the Filipino people to help him because he cannot do it alone and that the people must do their share to bring about change and reforms, since changes must start with each and everyone of us. Quite frankly, these political mantras are the stuff of which bull manure is made. In the first place, the Filipino people already give the government — any government — much too much without getting anything in return from government. Everyone, but everyone, pays taxes, both direct and indirect. One would expect government to least give something back to the people, by way of social services and a better education, which are sorely lacking. In the second place, when the electorate vote, they presumably vote for a presidential candidate because they believed, at the time they voted for him, that his promises of change and reforms as well as the elimination of corruption and an improvement in the life of the impoverished people — in the case of Noynoy Aquino — would be delivered as promised during the campaign. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100617com1.html |
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