rant, rant, rant no. 1

The politicians and the ordinary Filipino workers

• Ordinary Filipino workers work for 8 hours a day (and even more) some were even overworked and underpaid. They try to earn as little as 365 pesos, while our politicians do not even come to sessions in Congress to work yet they are being paid, with no deductions and would even receive more than that---about millions of pesos.

• Ordinary workers work under inhumane conditions, crowding their offices, or factories but the stupid congressmen sit doing nothing in the halls of Congress, either listening to nonsense debates or grandstanding speeches of their more stupid colleagues

Taxes of Politicians and Taxes of Workers

• The lowly politicians never mind paying taxes BUT the ordinary workers are automatically taxed, witheld from their salaries. At the end of the month, they are being deducted of an amount while the politicians would even evade paying their own taxes, worst, stealing millions of pesos from our own coffers and kick-backing on government projects at the expense of the poor Filipino.
  

• Businessmen and Politicians evade millions of pesos in taxes, even billions. But the poor ordinary workers can't even get their thousand-peso tax rebate.

Politicians and Visas

• The government officials and congresmen (and all politicians at that), can enter other countries visa-exempt using diplomatic passports or can easily apply for visas while the well-deserving Filipino worker who deserves to have a vacation abroad for years of work, cannot even obtain a tourist/ single-entry visa elsewhere. The politicians would hide their ill-gotten wealth and laundered money from the country to their choice destinations, normally in states where bank secrecy laws are stricter, to deposit their amassed treasures.

Politicians Privilege, Misfortune of Ordinary Workers

• The politicians would not experience the grand and majestic Metro Manila traffic because their cars would have tens of convoys (or hagads) while the poor worker who needs to go to the office early suffer (otherwise, his salary will be deducted or get a disciplinary memo), because they got blocked by the convoys of the government officials who just go to the office to grandstand. I suggest these politicians take jeepney for a change, so it would be more real, don't you think?

More rants to come...