The Government of Craps

Most of us, if not all, have been a victim of a bureaucratic system. Below are my personal opinions to some of the “bureau’s” I had transactions with. This very rotten system that preys on nothing but the middle class society who are aware of their canine cravings but are defenseless. Let me start with the players:

THE PROFESSIONAL REGULATIONS COMMISSION
This canine department feeds on young bloods who want themselves to be “professionalized” and whose minds are “tabula rasa” in the “do’s and don’t’s” and the “how’s and why’s” of the department making them an easy prey. Also this canine department caters to the trying to be professional, professional by word and the true blooded professionals. The later is quite sleek to be a prey for them. Under this department is a bunch of craps who call themselves “professionals”. Indeed they are pro in the arena of the public market (palengke!). For there you will find how they deal with professionals and would-be professionals “professionally”. Pray they will be enlightened with a plan that would cut the line of applicants short.

THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE
Another bunch of craps whose main goal is to imbibe all the nutrients out of everybody except them. I’m wondering whether they are paying their taxes too? Hmmm... well they would get the very last centavo that they could get out of you in order to splurge on the whims of the government officials making it a valuable contribution to the growth of our GDP and GNP under “government expenditures”! Sounds good huh? Well that is because this pack of canines are intelligent enough to manipulate the income of the government into what is seemingly beneficial to the eyes of the public.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
These canines are builders. Engineers. Supposedly genius in building bridges, highways and other infrastructures that greatly contributes to the development of a country. Certainly, they have done a great job in building bridges that collapses in the midst of a great pressure of flood water, highways that ends in a rough road waiting to be finished by the next election and even cracks with just a small amount of built water. These canines are the master builders of the never ending maze of rough roads and beautifully crafted bridges of snares. They make good partners of neighboring countries whose ingenuity is none the less like them.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
This is one of the intelligent designs of the Government of Craps. These canines are task to educate young and future generations to feel, think and act like a true-blooded canine. They produce government officials who are good manipulators of their subordinate. They also produce responsible citizens of the country. Yes! Responsible citizens, responsible for all the rallies, strikes, leftist, critics and the like with the purpose of crashing down the ever wonderful Pearl of the Orient Seas in order to put up their own individual government! How is this done? Cut the budget, supply erroneous books, deploy incompetent teachers and provide dilapidated classrooms and in a year the goal is achieved.

BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION
These bunch of migratory birds are the most hospitable among the canine family. They serve you with a BIG SMILE and with a voice of a siren and will process your documents and papers right away. The only requirement: be a FOREIGNER! Hahaha. Unfortunately I am not, so I have to wait till my papers are into the eternity of waiting as bunch of passports and other papers pile over yours. The rest would be history.

THE HOUSE OF SENATE
This is my favorite. This department consists cute and cuddly little boys and girls playing with each other. They are tasks to create laws the would benefit the entire nation. Empathetically, they have done a great job. They have created laws that would protect the carabaos (water buffalo), a law that would inhibit law enforcers to imprison juvenile murderers, adding to the perversity of an already deviant society not to mention other nonsense laws. In addition, they spend their entire session and spend billions of pesos scrutinizing each other which would conclude into a never ever been closed cases, while wasting the people’s money into nothing but unprofitable things: The effect? The service sector becomes ineffective. The laws irrelevant. And the country is at a loss.

THE LOSERS
These comprises the middle class men and women who have no power to undo, redo and/or overwrite what has been done. All is taken out of them but nothing is given in return. The pay for the services they never even used. They are the source of quality meat that these canines need. Thus, creating a very good balance of nature neither mutual nor commensal but predatory. Other losers endure and stay, while most leave adding to the chain effect of a deteriorating society.

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR
We see that with only these few sectors of the bureaucratic system, it can already create a ripple of sinister that can destroy the entire nation. How much more if we add the other departments who are doing the same thing. This country not only thrives in an underground economy but also in “under-the-table economy.” The root is not corruption, nor under qualified government officials whose votes are gained from either the uneducated voters, payed voters, flying voters or by popularity where politics is very showbiz for most Filipinos, no wonder a lot of showbiz personalities wins in the election. But it is the selfishness of the person-in-charge of the position himself. Let’s check our attitudes and motives towards the goal we are trying to accomplish. Not to forget the externalities which would inadvertently either benefit from the good that we create or further destroy the foundation of the society.