04/06/2026
We spend about 1 billion Philippine Pesos EVERY MONTH in the Senate ALONE.
That money should’t go to the cheap drama and theatrics we keep getting— that money should go to legislation meant to solve many of our current problems that require solutions :
- Traffic congestion
- Pedestrian accessibility
- Transportation
- Food s*xurity
- the JOB MARKET
- EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
- reduced RED TAPE
- better OPPORTUNITIES for those with MERIT
- the reduction and absolution of the BACKER SYSTEM
- and the INCENTIVISATION to HARD WORK
Alright. That’s it. When your country’s lawmakers can’t even agree on the same interpretations of the constitution + jurisprudence, we better yet just burn the whole country to the ground.
When legislative hearings become a space for “exposés” (ahem— we all know so much about litigation in the wrong places) the whole institution turns into junk.
“In aid of legislation”
My ass. Honestly there should be NEW legislation restricting the wanton powers of both houses of congress to initiate committee hearings in aid of legislation.
I’ve been to many committee hearings myself— albeit the boring ones, but these legitimate hearings and the featured resource persons directly talk about the proposed laws in question, from the title, down to every word, down to every last alphabet.
If you’re a resource person and happen to participate in a technical working group it doesn’t matter if you’re a lawyer, if you truly are a resource that could help shape legislation— you’ll end up raising objections, points of concern, and proposed changes to the proposed bill each time the committee goes through every line.
Again.
Committee hearings are not trials.
Committee hearings are not focal points of legal exchange where truth and fact-finding is tantamount.
Committee hearings are a place of study, to shape and mold new laws.
What disappoints me the most is the common practice of ANY SENATOR to resort to their position as crafters of legislature, to participate in hearings that have a potential to soil our courts and justice system, with utter disrespect, in the name of “fact-finding” or “exposing truth.”
THE SENATE IS NOT THE PRIMARY VENUE TO “EXPOSE” OR EVEN “LITIGATE THE TRUTH” ESPECIALLY WHEN INVOLVING ACTIVE OR POTENTIAL COURT CASES.
Truth and facts are most relevant in houses of legislature when sought in the context of determining the best ways to address any problematic areas of existing law, or detect opportunities to make new ones.
I’m not going after the Cayetano faction, as all Senators have been, to my eyes, guilty of participating in this depravity, including those within the Gatchalian faction.
The only most important quasi-judicial function that the Senate holds, is IMPEACHMENT against sitting government officials with an electoral mandate.
Read up on this.
Other than that, the Senators should focus on shaping our laws, bending it to perfection, and molding it to the best versions it could be, while adapting to modern issues and current needs, that have to be addressed.
We spend about 1 billion Philippine Pesos EVERY MONTH in the Senate ALONE.
That money should’t go to the cheap drama and theatrics we keep getting— that money should go to legislation meant to solve many of our current problems that require solutions :
- Traffic congestion
- Pedestrian accessibility
- Transportation
- Food s*xurity
- the JOB MARKET
- EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
- reduced RED TAPE
- better OPPORTUNITIES for those with MERIT
- the reduction and absolution of the BACKER SYSTEM
- and the INCRNTIVISATION to HARD WORK
Sure we want accountability.
Sure we want to obliterate corruption.
But then the term “accountability” and “corruption” nowadays are nothing but a buzzword.
You can’t tell which is which, who is who, and what to believe in.
With how f**ked-up this country and its leaders is devolving into, I won’t be surprised that it would be just easier for the everyday Filipino to sigh, accept their fate, then scrape what they can with their sub-13,000 monthly salary and hopefully save enough in order to be scammed by some sketchy OFW yaya/truck driver recruitment agency, or if they ever succeed getting to fly abroad, work endless hours of toil for a little bit better pay— only to end up subsidizing the lives of every family member left behind.
When politicians are busy smearing each other, waging witch-hunts on who is corrupt (when they really all are, anyways) people get hurt.
People’s immediate needs are put aside.
Yes corruption drains our nation’s coffers.
Yes corruption kills.
Yes everything is political.
But what about your average Juan dela Cruz?
Do you think they would care anymore,
when they’re at the brink of sending off their wife to some middle-eastern country just to send home a few thousand pesos every month?
when the next generation would be comprised of spoiled and indifferent jun-jun’s raised by OFW money meant to compensate the absence of a parent?
when all dreams they have are getting out of the country?
Senators, congressmen, politicians, and leaders!
Wake up!
While you are all bickering and playing politics, the country is to be drained of good men.
We’ll be left with a population comprised of a disparity between :
- the poorest of the poor (who can’t scrape up enough funds to fly abroad)
- the poor (who rely on OFW subsidies)
- the poor (who work in BPO and spend their money booze and a ravenous s*x life due to the stress of the job)
- and the ruling class that can implode due to an ever looming crisis wrought about by an absence of a functioning working class, who would sell their soul to other countries.
I’m sick of these “corruption” witch hunts.
So is every productive Filipino who just wants a better life.
At this point “corruption” and “accountability” is a mere theatrical ploy, an excuse, and a premise, for one whole grand circus play.
We are getting absolutely nowhere, if we continue with this drama.
A leaking ship has better chances of not sinking when the entirety of the crew doesn’t stop and allocate all of its resources and manpower to fix an ever-unfixable leak, when the ship could just keep traveling on, moving forward, to get to the next port.
The more we let this drama go on, and the more distracted we get, the more blue collar workers and white collar workers would flee the country, leaving the filthiest of folk, behind.
~Admin 1
