Gone fishin’

I don’t usually jump on the bandwagon, but this time I feel strongly that I must add my voice — however feeble — to the growing outrage over the scandalous thievery of government money — taxpayers’ money, your money, my money.

- DOREEN G. YU

Nonexistent and substandard flood control projects are sizzling on the hot plate at the moment, as are those images of a table in a government office piled high with thousand-peso bills (twisted as this reasoning may be, we have to thank sacked assistant district engineer Brice Hernandez for taking the photo, otherwise we would not have this solid proof of their depravity) and a basement garage full of luxury vehicles, many of them “wala pa dito sa Pilipinas,” boasted their owner, the (in)famous Cezarah Discaya. Wala pa din palang complete papers, it turns out, or complete taxes paid.

The accounts of nepo babies flaunting their families’ lucre — designer clothes, shoes and bags, top-of-the-line watches and jewelry, fancy dinners and tiber vacations — elicit not envy but nausea, disgust and anger. This entire culture of flaunting, of ostentatious displays of (probably ill-gotten) wealth is sickening. Unfortunately it’s not something that’s just happening now with these nepo babies.