Moderate Your Greed

Corruption, no matter how small, is still corruption.

There is no such thing as moderated corruption. Either you are corrupt or you are not. Either you accept bribes or you don’t.

Fundamentalists, extremists, moralists and utopians would say that at no level can corruption ever be acceptable. Alas, man has made it necessary, even practical. Or is it?

Does the bible say, “Thou shall not steal in an unacceptable level”? It does not.

Moderate corruption merely translates as an expedient excuse for the crooks and the crocs to betray the public trust where the true nature behind the matter is the varying tolerance of greed depending on who is to be accommodated in the hierarchy. For instance, a small boy is supposed to nibble, while the “big boy” is expected to glut over the pie on the table.

The system is tailor-made to suit traditional politicians.

Moderate greed is acceptable only if we want a country that is fundamentally disordered.

Every single centavo from people’s taxes should be accounted for not for the benefit of any avaricious individual but for the benefit of the greater masses.

We, the people, should demand a culture in our government that will not tolerate any graft. Otherwise, history will repeat itself.

We, the people, should likewise get rid of the culture of patriarchal mendicancy in our society. Lest we want our trapos to recoup the money they spent from taxes better spent for public service and social services.

We don’t need another EDSA revolution. What we need is a cultural revolution.

A small spark can create a conflagration. Let’s fight corruption. If this is Lozada’s call then I’m with him. If not, then this whole ZTE-NBN affair is merely a sham- a noon-time soap to entertain us all.

Enough is enough. GMA resign!