Politics has become `business as usual`. While eating breakfast with a surprise visit from Ben and “Minh” and their cute grandson, we learned that Philippines has become nothing more than a big conglomerate of profit-seeking politicians, businesses and lawyers, too, along with the authorities backing up their status quo.
Filipinos know that working here and paying taxes is not going to get them anywhere. So some move back to the Philippines and retire. The lucky ones get to be elected into government positions, where Senators earn around 120 million pesos and Congressmen earn around 40 million pesos.
It’s all about lagay, a Filipino term loosely used to describe the activities of paying under the table to get what they want, like selling lands and avoiding government taxation instead of paying for paperwork costing around 30,000 pesos and being worth more than the value of a sold property! The business model works to their advantage on both sides. The profit are taken back to America and real property is bought with cold hard cash. Paying all sorts of taxes, of course, cannot be avoided.
But the point is that the Philippines has become the property of foreigners, mostly Asians of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent. This is fine: For Filipinos are `looked-down` or `frowned-upon` and considered laborers, looking for any job that would put food on the table, even if it means to serve as maids, prostitutes and workers on the oil rigs of Nigeria and Saudi Arabia.
As you can see by now, corruption is rampant in the political arena worldwide. Congress in America has passed so many laws, which has been sponsoring Middle Eastern, as I would put it, TERRORISTS, by free hand-outs in the form of subsidies for education, automobiles and other properties that taxpayers are working hard to support.
I, say, all politicians and any legislation passed by Congress must be removed and revoked, respectively, including government funded organizations such as ACORN and other morally and ethically corrupt activities from money laundering, human trafficking, tax evasion, etc…
Overall, stop the status quo of funding corrupt government officials and its government contractors, Barry.
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