The Philippines is now considered as the top corruption villain in Asia, more corrupt than Indonesia or Thailand.
Some Filipinos were shouting: “Yipee! We’re ahead of them all! We outdid ourselves!”
How could some of us be happy with such terribly bad news as reported by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd. (PERC), an organization that advices private companies and governments around the world?
The PERC survey showed the Philippines with a score of 9.40 from 7.80 last year. The PERC has a grading system of zero as the best possible score and 10 as the worst.
You know why some Filipinos are happy to be known as corrupt?
It’s because they know that many of them are not really corrupt and that the corruption “hot potato” would eventually fall into the hands of the guilty political leaders.
And there’s always the possibility that the “hot potato” could force those leaders to at least stop stealing someone else’s potatoes even for a awhile!
“They got it all wrong! They’ve been infiltrated by the members of the opposition, the communists, the terrorists!” Arroyo glowered.
Oh, but not by potato-stealers?
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