Hello SNOWFLAKE...

  
 Hello SNOWFLAKE...

                As provided by the civil code Article 19 “Every person must, in the exercise of his rights and in the performance of his duties, act with justice, give everyone his due, and observe honesty and good faith”.

The civil code if defined is a collection of laws which regulate private relations of members of civil society, such laws as provided determines each person’s respective rights and obligations with reference to persons, things and civil actions.

Said rights with respect to article 19 should be exercised with justice and good faith otherwise, the person injured would need redress from the other who committed a damaging act or omission against another.

The government itself, it’s representatives chosen and voted by the people, the lawmakers who create bills that would be turned into laws, are the ones responsible on legislating said bills to which as provided by the constitution the president or the chief executive will sign and after 15 days following the completion of their publication will then take effect.

There are several processes and procedures that would need to be done in order to turn a bill into law, such action needs a lot of resources, the government uses the taxes collected from the people in order to have the budget to research properly a bill before it gets discussed by our lawmakers and even before the president signs said bill or ratify it.

Resources, however, are not all just about money or budget, resources can also be time, it can be manpower and plenty of things needed just to get things going.

So why am I pointing this out?

Easy…

The Philippines right now, our government, our lawmakers and even the executive office are clearly wasting precious resources to issues not really urgent. Such waste is negatively affecting some members of the Filipino society mainly our farmers who by the way really needs help right now.

Give or take and as I have researched there are about 10 million rice farmers in the Philippines if there are 100 million Filipinos then if you look at it that 10 million is a big percentage of people who resides in this country and that’s just the farmers alone.

A production cost of palay is usually around 12 pesos per kilo and the average farmgate price of palay is about 17 pesos if you look at the math, although I’m not really good at it, give or take a farmer may earn up to 5 pesos give or take per kilo of palay sold.

Unfortunately, as I have seen in the news, some greedy wholesalers are buying farmgate palay at only 8 pesos per kilo, this act was then debunked by the great “Cynthia Villar” saying that those being sold at 8 pesos per kilo were the ones that have been severely damaged by the typhoon causing unwarranted moisture.

Our farmers unfortunately, are accepting these prices even though it is below the proper price that they should accept.

Why do they do this you ask?

Well, it’s because of three words. BASIC HUMAN NEEDS.  

Our farmers, should the great “ CYNTHIA VILLAR” would know, are people too and they have needs, as a human being a person needs to eat, he needs money for electricity, food, basic necessities and primarily money so that said farmers who by the way have families can pay the tuition fee and materials their children would need in order to get a proper education.  

Shouldn’t the government itself be the one to help these farmers, I mean, why is there no budget appropriation for that issue?

Shouldn’t the Mainstream Media focus more on this problem instead of focusing it on a non-URGENT ISSUE? I mean every people have rights. If you are a member of the LGBTQ community or whatever they are called now I have nothing against you but there are people right now dying out there of hunger and is being pummelled with debt because they need money in order to bring food at the table.

Though yes I know we have several lawmakers out there and some of them are giving concern towards said farmers issue, however, it’s not just about that. If the media also gave their focus in order to provide said the issue with a more compelling light and emphasize said problem to the people through the use of their so-called Media. Then things may move faster to resolve said issue.

A snowflake is a term to describe an entitled, whiny, sensitive person who easily gets offended or triggered, by the acts of others even if the said act was committed under good faith.  

Right now there are hundreds of snowflakes out there and because of them, a more urgent issue of the government isn’t given more emphasis.

You. Snowflake… This is your fault…

As much as I want to go further the subject of how many snowflakes there are right now…

Something more urgent should be given emphasis. There are valid classifications or distinctions given to each person. There are men, there are women. There are adults and there are children. Each and every one of them has several distinctions and classifications that are found on the other and are not found on the latter. A child compared to an adult has a limited legal capacity because of their age. The strength between men and women and their scientific classifications. And there are rich people and poor people.

Your gender wouldn’t kill you. Man, Woman whatever you are… it won’t kill you. However, if a farmer can’t bring food at the table of his family and provide basic necessities for them, then just might as well pull the trigger, because that is what you are doing.

Poverty can indeed kill, you, however, won’t die because of your gender.

A letter for the great public and elected officials of the PHILIPPINES.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

When I was in high school after dismissal I used to go to the office of my mother, I used to commute every day to the place where she works and after arriving at her office I would wait for her to go home and we would go home together. I will wait for hours inside her office before her time out and since I don’t really have any money before to go to a computer shop or a café and kill time I killed time by walking around the building where she works.

My mother works at the City hall; she’s a court employee at a branch which would not be named because I don’t want to name it, as provided by the Cambridge Dictionary a city hall is a building that is used by the government of a city that usually contains city offices. Since my mother works at the city hall it’s clear that her work pertains to legal procedures inside and outside the courtroom.

Walking around the building it is not really hard to see the problems of said infrastructure, the restrooms are dirty, the plumbing needs a lot of work,  the walls of the inside and outside of the building has plenty of cracks in it, it smells weird and to shorten the explanation on how hard of an improvement it needs, the building is crap.

But don’t be angry, the point of this essay is to maybe open the eyes of our public officials that are appointed in or elected in to improve the city offices of their municipality or city. Ergo this letter:

Dear public or elected official,

If you are reading this I would like to point out certain things that may need some improvement for the betterment of the needs of our fellow Filipino people. I’m not really saying that I am better at the job that is appointed to you or you were elected in but as I am seeing right now as I use some of the government facilities in your city that you are supposed to be improving using the taxes collected from the people. Some facilities “per se” needs a lot of improvement.

Granted you don’t want our facilities to be a cesspool of sickness that would probably be noxious or in lay man’s terms Bad for the health of the people. Then maybe if you use some of that money we call taxes, again collected from the people, and not just use it for your own personal needs then maybe we can start somewhere.

There is this legal maxim that refers to a fundamental rule that is being followed by the government “ Salus Populi suprema lex esto” which means in English “ The general welfare or good salvation of the people should be the supreme law”  Seeing the current situation of the government facilities found here in the country it is sometimes questionable for me if you and some of your cohorts are indeed following the said rule. First of all, let’s start with the restrooms, why is it so dirty in every government restroom that I use, why does it stink so bad and some of the cubicles doesn’t even have a working lock in it? I mean a guy walked in on me while I was doing natures work inside a restroom cubicle to which we had a very awkward situation where while I was doing natures work he opened the cubicle door which should be presumably locked and to his surprise, I was inside and we locked eyes looking at each other where afterward, he quickly closed the cubicle door and said sorry, when asked by said man on why I didn’t lock the cubicle door I answered that there was no lock in it.

So whose fault it is that said event happened to me? I mean I am not the one who has a duty to know that every lock in every cubicle in every government facility should work properly. Clearly, this is your fault and such an embarrassing event happened to me because instead of using the collected taxes for the improvement of the said facility by simply buying working locks for all of it you instead used it for some unknown reason that only God would know whatever it is.

Also if you look at the news and since our government right now is on high alert to eradicate drug use in the country more and more people are being incarcerated in prison, yes I am happy that these alleged drug users are in jail, but if you look at the number of people in cells in our government prison clearly you can see that hundreds of people would not fit in a prison cell that can only accommodate 20 people. If you can do math then isn’t 100 a lot more than 20? WHAT WOULD YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN? They are like sardines in said prison facilities. These are people who , even though has a limited legal capacity for the crimes they allegedly committed, still has rights and you are depriving them of said right by placing them in a prison cell that already has hundreds of inmates in it even though it can only accommodate a few. As provided the police power of the state ensures that noxious things hazardous to the citizens of the Philippines should be either destroyed or improved. In this case, I highly suggest the improvement of said facility.

Another is why is it that street lights in some cities open up late? I mean it’s already 10 in the evening and for some unknown and weird reason the street lights aren’t even open yet? What is happening? Are you saving up on electricity? Don’t we pay enough taxes to keep the lights open in the streets? Are you trying to help criminals rob more people more easily? I don’t get it. There should be a proper time for these lights to open that should be strictly followed. Commuting is very common in the country and it is sometimes hard to commute and go to places when the bus stop or jeep stopovers don’t have lights in it every evening. It’s like a hotspot for criminals to gather to steal or rob people.  

How can you protect the people if you can’t even properly improve the facilities created for their protection?  Don’t even get me started on our Government hospitals because that is another topic all on its own. Clearly you know you F’ed up.

Anyway I wish I at least helped you with some of the things the city or the country needs.

In all seriousness, I have nothing against you, I simply and only want the best for the people.

They deserve the best and you are depriving them of that.

Look and use the facilities, the people need you, they voted for you if you're appointed then a person trusted you with power because he or she believes that you can make a change.

If you have a power to change things for the better then do it, don’t be greedy and give to the people what you promised to them,  the people have a right to be protected and to be taken care of by the government or state to which he or she lives.

I still believe in you. I KNOW you can be better and DO better. Don’t fail us. Thank you.

Sardines or prison? you choose...

look at how dirty the restrooms are.

where's the door of this cubicle??

The photos are not mine. just searched some pictures of the facilities found in the country.