The scandalous incident surrounding the PDAF imbroglio highlights the mob like nature of Philippine Legislative processes. Where else in the world will you find a Congress that hands out money to anyone they like in the guise of conducting various imagined social activities, plans and programs. Congress is supposed to be that branch of government committed to the crafting of prudent, relevant and essential laws, not giving social work and programs directly to its various constituents.
This frankensteinian concept of congress is ripe, as expected, to essentially breed corruption at its highest order. Instead of focusing on legislation, congress becomes one professionalized criminal enterprise with tentacles that practically covers the whole spectrum of Philippine society. This cancerous order of robbery conducted under the very noses of the people who pretended to elect them pretends in turn to serve and legislate.
Congress in the Philippines is really a playground of the rich and corrupt, almost mafia-like, as it is characterized by relations of kith and kin, immune to the constraints of law itself and insulated from the harsh realities of Filipino life as almost all its members are cocooned in a lifestyle of wanton excess and decadence.
A cursory look at the make-up of the current Philippine legislature will show a club practically for the rich, the highborn and the fabulously moneyed class. They perpetuate themselves by giving themselves and their closed circle of croonies enormous sums of money bled by the work of millions of daily Filipino wage earners.
Tragedy is the Philippine congress itself! The single most structurally oppressive institution in Philippine life. Exasperating is a word that best defines its vision, its mission, enrichment of the moneyed class as it preys on the crawling bodies of millions of Filipino wallowing in a sea of grinding poverty and marginalized, abused and exploited millions more who work in foreign lands.
Tragedy.
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