You’ve all seen the open-letter from some middle class guy. Here’s a retort!
If you so-called middle-class aren’t heard its because you all do not, I repeat, do not have the balls to stand up to the tyrannical beast that is gloria macapalmukha-arrovo. You are all in denial of what is going on and as long as you receive your sweldo every half month, you couldn’t care less of what is happening to the rest of the country. You couldn’t care less because you still have food on your table, a roof over your head, clothes on your back and are able to send your children to private schools. Well buster, I’ve got news for you. At the rate this government bleeds the people for more taxes to put in their already well lined pockets, your middle-class status wont last very long. So revel in it while you can.
If you think that you have exclusive rights to the taxes that make this country’s wheels, that its your so-called class that gets the brunt of burden that the entire population has to carry then think again. How much do you pay for your water bill? You have piped in water which you do not have to carry in pails at 10 pesos per pail from a hand pump which is at least a hundred meters from your home that you had to stand in line for. But hey, thats not your concern right? I’ll tell you what is. Soon you’ll have to stand in line like the rest because at the rate illegal logging is being covered up by the administration, there won’t be enough watersheds to replenish the aquifers which supply the rivers,lakes and dams with fresh water. You will have to drink water from the Laguna bay. Ain’t that just peachy?
And all those people displaced from the calamity stricken areas will most likely move to the city to seek jobs in order to survive. Then you get an overcrowded metropolis teeming with unemployed “non-middle class” people. Now that’s just for starters. When this happens what will the “middle-class” do? Hide under the bed? Lock yourselves up in your ivory towers? Perhaps you should migrate. Your taxes are of no use to the people anyway since it only goes to the pockets of a handful in government anyway. And if your taxes are all you’re good for as a citizen, then it appears to be of no use at all.
Oh by the way, I too am middle class but I have never and will never forgive the people responsible for the cheating that went on in the last elections.
Signed:
Isa rin middle-class na nagbabayad ng buwis at nagbubuwis ng buhay para sa kapakanan ng karamihan, hindi para sa ikararami ng aking kapakanan.
@2003 Institute for Popular Democracy
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