These are some of the reasons why everyone should give attention to the recent events:

Though unknown to many until it was mentioned in the news lately, the "traditional" 20% lost to kickbacks should alarm everybody because:

The money lost to graft and corruption could have been used for housing projects for the families of our soldiers and police.

The money lost to graft and corruption should have been spent on building more schools or renovating the old ones in the far flung barangays of the poorest provinces.

The money lost to graft and corruption could have been given to the public school teachers and other government employees.

The money lost to graft and corruption should have been used to buy combat boots for the soldiers we send to fight rebel groups.

The money lost to graft and corruption could have been used to build or improve farm-to-market roads.

The money lost to graft and corruption should have been allocated for research and development in the field of renewable energy source for the country.

The money lost to graft and corruption could have been used to improve the means of our cost guards in protecting our seas from smugglers etc.

And an almost infinite list is of should haves and could haves is replaced by this line…

The money lost to graft and corruption, simply put, could, as it should, have been used for the use of the people!

So… I humbly post here are what I have realized and thought of so far:

We can’t let ourselves oust one president after another. This is no freakin’ elementary classroom! This is a country’s president for sanity’s sake! Although maybe if we can guarantee ourselves that we can rise from the ashes and maintain our present climb after the euphoria of ousting another erring president and letting the vice-president get promoted, then go ahead take her off of the palace by all means except through assassination etc.

If we harness this energy brought by our collective consciousness, kindled by realization, and force ourselves to remember during those crucial seasons of elections, then we may just be able to place trustworthy leaders in power and prevent ourselves from going through all this over again.

Let ourselves have the government we deserve. Ok, that line was scary… Maybe it should go this way: Let our future generations have the government they deserve.