Choke On It !!!!

You should have already heard about it on the news. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her retinue of reptiles had a $15,000 dinner in New York when she paid a visit to President Barack Obama (notice that I omitted to include Arroyo's title - yes, it is intentional). If you divide that by the 65-member entourage it comes to $230 per person for one freaking meal. That is the most appalling thing I've heard today; even when compared to the rest of the news - the fatal shooting of a pawnshop security guard who was a most devoted husband and father; the newly-unearthed modus operandi of car thieves, policemen and LTO personnel acting in collusion; the early-morning collision on Commonwealth avenue between a truck and a tricycle driven by a drunken idiot; the return of Sandara Park (kidding - she's okay).

Let the palace blather on that somebody else other than the Philippine taxpayer picked up the bill. We know this government well enough to know that they're going to find some way to hide it, if there is evidence that public funds were used. And even if somebody does produce incontrovertible proof that taxpayers' money wasn't used to feed big fat fugly greedy lying grasping Philippine politicians and their hangers-on, what of it? Who paid for the eats really isn't the point. The point is this: while the long-suffering majority of Filipino heads of household have to scrimp and save to provide their families with a dinner made out of the cheapest vegetables and hardly any meat, here are our leaders living it up and each spending, in one sitting, what could have fed a six-person family for a month.

Expect Arroyo and her entourage to shrug and say it's one of the perks of being a member of the government to spend more money than the average citizen. Standard arrogant behavior, really, for a Philippine politician. Makes me ashamed to have to share a nationality with them. Why couldn't the devil come and take them all at the last fiction fiesta of a State of the Nation address?