Corruption...

        

        Corruption in the Philippines is an endless battle between the nation and it’s supposedly leaders. These people, who are in position and the power to control, are abusing the people and the community. To this day, corruption becomes a very common activity to some people from the rich and powerful to the poor and little squatters. Corruption is everywhere regardless the economic status. These kinds of people work hard to make a high living. They want material things that resort to harm the environment like illegal logging and dynamite fishing. This activities cause damage not only to the nature but to the people’s lives as well. They even worsen and become greedy with their arrogant ambitions. Throughout history, we have seen how people slowly become corrupt, even though they were not that way before. They began with small sins that seem to be excusable even such wrong doing can develop into deeper forms of evil that destroy a person’s integrity and character. This happens because they are not satisfied to what they have, they ask more and wanted to make themselves famous. Their selfish interest makes it worse. The misuse of public money for private gain poses a very grave challenge to the nation’s development in the Philippines. The magnitude of the problem is staggering both the rich and poor are doing this corruption. Among the challenges to national development in the Philippines are graft and corruption, which are manifest in many various forms including bribery, kickbacks, vote buying, and ghost employees. They collect money every payday as their salaries but they are not real employees. Some government employees use some money for their own needs instead on the project of the government for the infrastructure, for education, school buildings, books and materials for studying, for health centers and medicine, doctors and nurses, additionally, corruptions facilities criminal enterprises such as black marketing and illegal gambling syndicates. They did their evil acts to the extent of hurting other people. They became criminals for their activities, they forget the good values and being a good citizen to our country.  Corruption has both political and socio-cultural roots. The political system and its institution allow graft and corruption to flourish, but its people, not institution who are rubbing government funds. They find ways to kickback from the funds of the government. Our country is one of the most corrupt countries in Asia. During the Marcos regime in the late 1980’s it’s the most corrupt government of all times because of his highest position as a president of the country, he has the power to do so. In every aspect of his life he enjoyed so much being the president of the country.  He has the freedom to do whatever he wants and the power to make people follow his orders. The situations has improved in 2006, there are changes that happen rated the Philippines less corrupt than 51 of 163 nations but ranking among Asian nations is not good. During the term of the ex-president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, corruption is said to be worse than the Marcos regime. She has been tagged as the most corrupt president our country has ever had. She spent too much not only for the improvement of our country but also for her own interest. She went to different countries to borrow billions of money and to invite foreign investors to invest their money in the Philippines.