Elections and Christmas
Filed Under General Nonsense
Christmas is coming and this season, it would be different. Wanna know why? There’s another election next year and our beloved politicians are already trying hard to show themselves to our voters. You can’t blame them, that’s their bread and butter. Oh yes, the country’s coffers is their source of living. Haha! Damn right, it is!!!!
And to get back to our topic, election and Christmas, trapos(that’s Traditional Politicians) are already scrambling to prepare their own gimmicks. That’s the reason why you can now see a lot of streamers with greetings to their constitutients. They are the type of banners wherein the face of the candidate covers 80% of the printed area while 5% is for the greeting itself. The 15% remaining is for the white space. If you think about it, who will throw away at least 300K worth of banners into our thoroughfares for nothing? Well, except the politicians of course!
And there’s another not-so-subtle technique, a TV-commercial. Woohoo!!! This is the winner as of now! I don’t know if you already got a chance to see the latest LuckyMe commercial. Senator Kiko Pangilinan is there together with MegaStar Sharon Cuneta! Damn, I didn’t expect that from him, really! I respect the man but I didn’t expect something like that from him. Whether he like it or not, it sure did tarnished his reputation as fas as I’m concerned. He’s not the first one to do that, though. You have Sen. Lacson who did the same for Napoleon VSOP and Sen. Jamby Madrigal for another product I forgot what. And of course, there are others who did the same but didn’t win. In fact, one of my bets in the 2001 senatorial elections, Mareng Winnie (Monsod), didn’t win even with the help of a detergent back then.
In the next coming days, you’ll see more of these. Personally when I see them myself, the feeling is like..”There goes my withholding tax again!”. Whew!!! For a person who pays almost a third of his salary, you can’t blame me if I feel that way especially when you know that your goverment and the legislative department does not do what they need to do. And what’s more painful about it is the fact that you see a lot of misfits in the government. Paying a third of my paycheck for tax and be treated indifferently in our government institutions like Airports(BI), Seaports(PPA), SSS, LTO, City Halls and others does not add up well. It does not feel good to see unqualified and self-serving persons running our government from local to national. And they will come to you in the next coming months to solicit your vote. But actually, your vote will not matter since they’ll buy it from somewhere else, anyways.
So, until then. Let’s just hope that you receive a present from these parasites so that you’ll get something back from your taxes.