“There is no curse in elvish, entish, dwarvish, or the tongues of men that can describe this treachery.” – Tree Beard, Lord of the Rings
In the infamous interview with Arnold Clavio and Winnie Monsod, Presidential son and Cong. Mikey Arroyo said that his exponential jump of net worth was because of wedding gifts and campaign contributions when he run for Congress. In the interview it was shown that his 5M worth jumped to 76M, then 99M, then more than 120M. Here’s the interview for everyone’s “viewing” pleasure:
Mikey Arroyo’s Statement of Election Contributions and Expenditures for 2007 also came out in public and this is just plain bullshit (sorry for the words). I’ve been involved with more than 4 campaigns already as a consultant and I even became very active during my grandfather’s and father’s campaigns. According to this statement, Mikey spent just half a million to win a seat in Congress – and he spent every cent (which totally debunks his earlier statement saying that he earned from this).
What’s even more amazing about this is that no one is going after Mikey. Isn’t this the job of the Ombudsman?
We have to be more intelligent when we vote in 2010. The blatant disregard for law and the welfare of the Filipino people by our current government is sickening to the point that you just want to give up on this country. What’s important now is that we all learn from these experiences and make it a point to put forward a better agenda for the Philippines by electing the right leaders.
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Dude, great post! This should be in the top newspapers for every Filipino to read. Mikey’s not the only one who’s caught lying at the 2nd or 3rd interview. There are a lot! But sadly the media and the people don’t care.
But the truth is this: Corrupt politicians and poverty and other things are not the main problem.
The ultimate problem is ourselves. People don’t care, people are fatalistically passive, bahala and stuff like that. What we need is cultural progress. Believe me, if we Filipinos start to act differently and not tolerate all of this, corrupt politicians will just be an itch in the pits. They’ve no match for what? 80 million hard working, self respecting, assertive culturally changed Filipinos.