Moderate Greed

When asked what he thinks the President’s role in the scandal was, Mr. Lozada was initially hesitant to talk. “This might be taken as a political statement already. I guess she could have done more (by) moderating the greed.”

It’s funny how high-profile people like Mr. Lozada can talk about the different degrees of greed. I suppose the ability to differentiate the varying degrees of greed comes with age. It is also easier to judge the degree of greed of another person than one’s own.

It’s funny how Mr. Lozada does his theatrics while being interrogated. As earlier noted by many of my peers, he knows fully well that he will be facing the Senate cameras most of the time, and he seems fully rehearsed to have those facial expressions. Perhaps during the time he was gone, he practiced on doing some contortions. Let’s wait for that in a few days.

It’s funny how some Senators attempted to attack the “credibility” of Lozada, when they themselves were hardly ever credible (at least to me). Well, the people voted for them (or did they? Really???), and whether it was for sheer ignorance or lack of choices of the voting public, what matters is the consequence of some people getting elected because of that ignorance or poor choice. I guess those shortcomings are also more tolerable as we get older.

It’s funny how people behave when faced with killer questions. Mr. Lozada appears to tell everything he knows, which is very good for media purposes. Yep, only for media purposes because I honestly don’t think any of those greedy people he had mentioned will actually ever get prosecuted. And honestly, I do not admire his lack of loyalty, unlike Mr. Neri. “Honor among thieves”, we may call it, yet in that man, there is, nonetheless, HONOR. And by the way, my goodness, what happened to our dear Professor Bautista? I almost did not recognize him. I honestly do not know whether it was immorality or sexual harassment that led him to voluntarily stop teaching at the College of Law, but I was amazed that he blurted out that he was also charged for libel. As we can see, even the best of the best would incriminate themselves under the right conditions.

It’s funny how lawyers (and several of them from U.P.Law) have surrounded this entire fiasco. What’s funnier is that some of us who are blogging here today (and judging how those older people behave) may very well be in a similar situation many years from now. Of course, the gift of youth is that we do not see the grim future yet. Maybe by then, it won’t be about hundreds of millions, but several billions of dollars. Yet, as of today, we do not know that yet.

I will try to save these blogs so that one day, when one or some of us are being interrogated for being scammers, we can look back and do a self-assessment on the degree of greed that has developed in our veins over the years. And that, my friends, would be the funniest of all.