Think about it
Politicians vs. public servants
By Jun Velasco
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.—Publicus Syrus
AS students of government, we delight in every art of governance that espouses a correct administration of justice, allows untrammelled freedom (minus touching the nose of your neighbour), guarantees free speech and equitable distribution of wealth.
Most isms – communism, imperialism, constitutionalism and democracy – are now giving way to the centrist’s idea that gets the best ideas from every tried governmental system.
But it looks like except for hard line communist societies, the lure of private greed has dominated the psyche of most leaders of most governmental systems. It has become the villain in a democracy. The political system may be ideal, but the human instinct of greed rules the appetites of leaders, it is observed.
If you read the national papers carefully, you won’t fail to see huge evidence of avarice that took place without our knowledge because they were done with the savvy and virtuoso of accomplished criminals. Why has the system allowed it?
You see rules and methods are always used and cleverly executed.
Those who have seen and gone through particular system will tell you that it’s the public officials that make elegant political theories ugly and tools of abuse and decay. Then we put the blame on values that make summa cum laudes and board topnotchers land in jail while in the public hire.
It’s a nightmare to look for the ideal public servant in our society that glorifies the filthy rich, the gangster tycoon, and a corrupt politician. We easily blame the people for idolizing the wrong heroes. We see an endless clash between good governance and bad governors.
Our President PNoy who obviously had the Presidency farthest from mind finds grave discomfort in balancing his public with private life. He shows his irritation with little regard for Mahar Mangahas’ SWS poll. Here is a clean official who gets slammed by a public habituated to the sweet talk cajoler, the bribe giver and bolero. His vision for the country is clear but media blur it for reasons of their own.
A leader can be acceptable only when he is able to dangle a program that actually lifts the people’s lives and to get them to participate in its success. It’s not easy because people are generally hard to please.
In Dagupan City there’s a talk that all this imbroglio over the decimated city budget is music to the protagonists. Why? Well, they get good publicity. But, public service is kicked downstairs, you say. You begin to wonder if they care. They don’t, so long as they stay in power.
Let’s hope our kind of officials here are good and honest.
Prayer power: A kindred soul says, if you are a great believer in God’s healing, just lay your hand on the ailing one or any part of your body and pray. Be in faith and claim your healing from God, who is the Greatest Healer. It works!
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