Evil thrives when good people do nothing

A quote from Edmund Burke clearly elaborates that when a wicked person are in authority, sin flourishes, but the godly will live to see their downfall. If cheating runs in your bloodline, immorality and estrangement from God always follow. Public officials who have been anointed by the electorates has adopted the sense to become reluctant to relinquish their elective positions. Worse, they tend to behave as if they own their position or office and even convert it into a family enterprise wherein it is subjected to hereditary successions. They can influence or coerce hapless voters and spends so much to get themselves elected into a public office. One thing - after assumption to office, they can quickly replenish what they have spent - by means of cheating. Call this as their mission in life, or legacy to uplift the poor, they must cheat in order to have prestige and power to a community where popularity and 4 G's have been established as a proven formula. This spill-over phenomenon has already shaped our nation's reputation as a country of cheaters. In a recent study, 95% had already admitted they have cheated in their entire life. Anent to this, a proven family-school partnership has a vital role in shaping a child's growth in order to cope up with his success or failures in the future. Students who have been listed as drop outs will end up as criminals, nuisance and ultimately good agents of corruption in the the government. In a country where corrupt officials are not persecuted, justices are being bribed, and innocent minds are being polluted...Is this the kind of change what we are expecting for? But the worst of all... why do electorates tolerates it?

Auditing government transactions

In the spate of controversies regarding government transactions, taxpayers are always in a quandary where have those millions and billions of pesos are being spent. COA, the government's auditing arm considered to be as the last bastion for good governance, is now being painted as a graft-ridden agency. Knowing that their responsibility is to check irregularities in all government transactions, their findings are critical in restoring the faith in government service. As we all know, "public service is a public trust". In the case of Ms. Heidi Mendoza a former auditor, her explosive expose' has started the ball rolling on the plunder case filed against Gen. Garcia. If you weigh the circumstance behind this, was it a justifiable act for the ombudsman to give a plea bargain deal into this case?