Authority and Power...it's our own choices.☠

English Assignment

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                 “What authority and power can do”

We all see everything in our country, including the increased in poverty, the change in inflation rate, numerous corrupt scandals, and even the heedless situation in Manila. Is this all the government is about? Look around you, the poverty rate in the Philippines kept increasing. We all see it in the news, poor people being ignored of their needs. Not to mention the-not-long-ago news of the recent earthquake in the Philippines. We know that one fourth of the world donated to our poor-stricken country, and we see that not everyone got the help from it. Where did all the donations went? We probably have some ideas where it went, but kept shut about it. Why? because their authority and power made us mute.

Is this not enough to convince you that most of the government officials are corrupt? Well, let’s go to the very recent news of Pork barrel. According to the wikipedia, Pork barrel is the appropriation of government spending for localised projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative’s district. For short, Pork barrel is secured solely for poor people who needs financial help. Janet Napoles used that funds to use it selfishly for herself and her family. Adding to that, she was not the only one who corrupted the funds, a huge amount of senators were even involved in it. And we, people, even thought to ourselves that they should receive proper amount of sentenced in the prison, life-sentenced or even death penalty would be the right meds for their crime.

Since we are on the topic of crimes, we know that the crime rates is as well increasing, just as the poverty rate is. And tons of people are getting jailed for it, life-sentenced or half of their life years, perhaps? Those prisoners even have their own jailed rooms, together with 15 or more other jailed-mates. But we wonder why those prisoned-senators receive their own air-conditioned room all by themselves? Why do they receive special treatment, when we all thought that prison shouldn’t care about social status. Because of that, we see everything in a different light. Authority and Power does have their own uses, it’s up to oneself to use it greedily or selflessly. 

Honestly, all of us are flawed humans. We can't go around blaming government with this problem,(although it's true that they're also part of why a country is not progressing) we are also in the problem. If we would all cooperate and made good choices together (and follow the Lord, and not the selfish hearts of us), we would rise together.