The Poor Middle Class

I write today to vent out my frustration for the ongoing rehabilitation of the squatter's area in E. Rodriguez Avenue. Society's leeches have found yet another suitable host they can cling to. The politicians smell blood in the water and circle like sharks waiting to be fed on election day.

It pisses me off to see MY tax money being spent on people who haven't paid a cent, steal electricity and water, sell their votes to the highest bidder and complain how life never gave them a good break. They whine in their little air-conditioned huts with free cable, electricity and water and have the guts to complain about their standard of living. You can't even look at you air-conditioning unit and not shiver at the thought of having it run the whole day with it's current cost for usage. Meanwhile, the government, having little or no foresight, increases the cost of utilities and taxes instead of improving their collection (this is why you're NOT getting my vote, Mr. Ralph "VAT" Recto). They unwittingly pass all the burden to the middle class. The upper class, composed mainly of politicians and dishonest businessmen care not for any price increase. Their lofty ill-gotten wealth more than covers for any inconvenience caused by a petty rise in cost.

The reason why inflation rises is because we lose more middle class to bankruptcy. We who have no choice when our paychecks get deducted with tributes to Caesar. The squatters don't shell out anything and the wealthy are not paying enough. It's ironic that these illegal settlers live the life of a rich man when they have nothing. When it gets taken away, they feel violated and demand for something they weren't entitled to in the first place. The rich live the life of a king and pretend to be poor when it's time to run for public office or tax season. When it gets taken away, they feel violated and take more from everyone else. The middle class live from one paycheck to the next and live the life that their budget allows. When it gets taken away from us, we feel violated but roll with the punches because WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING.

I challenge our government and the next to clean the streets the way it should be. Cut all loses and stop treating the abusive settlers as victims. What are you afraid of? Majority of these people are not registered voters anyway. You've been trying to do right with non-productive members of the society, why not give something back to those who HAVE been doing something? Call me heartless for turning my back on these people but enough is enough. We've endured their stay (illegally) and the cost of the stuff they stole but I refuse to replace it when a fire (that they've caused) took everything they didn't own in the first place. That's not being heartless! That is refusing to bend over and be fucked in the ass! The reason why progress eludes us is because we're a nation that cradles criminals and free loaders.

Moreover, the new government should look more closely into the lives of the elite and seriously ask themselves if these people have been paying their taxes correctly and if they're getting their money from legitimate sources. You don't need a huge budget for this. A customs official who's getting less than 20k of salary per month with no documented business NOT related to his office has 3 luxury cars, a mansion and spends a month in Hawaii for vacation. Do we really need a committee for that? Seriously? Someone should say "duh!". Or maybe a certain Senator who passed several bills that made his business boom spends billions of pesos to sit in a position earning less than a fifty thousand per month. It doesn't take rocket science to read between the lines. If the rich makes a significantly bold move, you only need to ask why to figure out the rest. Motive is everything. If it's there, it is the source and the solution to all mysteries you will be faced with.

I've noted all the politicians who are present at the E. Rodriguez ground zero. I will NOT vote for ANY of them. Hasn't anyone learned anything about the old saying "teach a man to fish and you feed him for life?" Seriously? These measures are band-aids to a gushing wound. If you really want to help these people, give them paying jobs. Educate them for free. If the city were able to fund the college tuition of the Mayor's kids, I bet we can do the same for these people. You didn't know? Weren't all those signs from each project from our good Mayor's wallet? Of course not! Your tax money funded it. Out of our wallets and into theirs. You poor, poor middle class.