Why it has come to this, only God knows

By Al S. Mendoza

 

ALL this time that we scrounge for money to keep both ends meet, here are our politicians wallowing in cash.

Aren’t all the elected our so-called servants?

And, doesn’t P-Noy himself call us his boss?

How come it is now our servants who have the money, and not us, the boss?

And not just money, mind you.

It is wads of bills we are talking about here.

So huge are the amounts they come in millions in cold cash.

So heavily bundled that the scumbags needed sacks, boxes of milk cartons and duffel/luggage to stuff them all in.

One time, a driver had to unload P75 million in one-thousand peso bills withdrawn from a single bank.

Since the bundles of cash could not all fit in on even a king-size bed, not to mention aparadors made of narra, the rest of the bills were strewn on not just one bathtub but three bathtubs.

You know that Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, reportedly owns 10 houses, one of them supposed to sit princely at the plush Forbes Park in Makati.

As whistle-blowers would picture Napoles’ penchant for cash, Napoles loves to strut around carrying freshly-withdrawn cash by the millions—P35 million, P50 million, P75 million.

Such monies were the result allegedly of Napoles’ illicit dealings with senators and congressmen too willing to part away with their pork barrel aka people’s money.

The whistle-blowers said that once Napoles had collected the pork barrel through bank deposits under either her name or a bogus NGO (non-government organization) that she had put up, she’d give a huge chunk of the loot to the “cooperating legislators” pronto.

A very simple case of give and take aka robbing us blind—our own billions of money being pocketed unabashedly through a conspiracy involving a master scoundrel and our so-called servants clad usually in coat and tie.

What a travesty of life, what a tragedy of bizarre proportions, indeed.

This napalm-bomb Napoles case has so enraptured our everyday life that, day by day, we now seem to live in a make-believe, so unreal world.

How can people live in stolen wealth while us, the boss, are bled dry of our own money?

How can people be so greedily evil?

How can people stomach such dastardly act?

Pope Francis is right:  We are all sinners.

The only difference is, Pope Francis the sinner “was looked kindly by Jesus Christ” so that “how can I say no” to his getting elected successor of the resigned Pope Benedict?

But will Jesus Christ also look kindly on His people now being branded ruthless scammers and unrepentant thieves, presently, of people’s money?

If they will apologize, ask for forgiveness, maybe.

They say saints have a past and sinners a future.

Take your pick.

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