What if one day a little child would say, “I want to lead the whole country. I want to manage everything about the whole land.” Then you would probably say “What an ambitious child!”
All of us know that being a president of a country is not an easy task. It needs a strong, intelligent, preserving and hard – working person to rule a nation of 7,100 islands with all eyes of the world observing your administration. But even then, I wish I were the President so that I could restore order to this very chaotic society we are in, now.
A President is head of state and chief political executive, of a republic. It is also the highest-ranking member of an organization or institution; the highest-ranking executive officer of a business or corporation; the highest-ranking executive officer of some universities, colleges, government departments, legal divisions, and other public offices; somebody who is appointed or elected to oversee a meeting; in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a man who is a member of the church's governing board. Together with counselors and the Council of the Twelve Apostles, he makes major church policy and decisions.
And if I am the President of the Philippines:
I want to make our surroundings clear, orderly, presentable and pleasant to live in. It’s so frustrating to see all these ‘ukay-ukays’ displayed everywhere! In this hi-tech world, we should not have retreated backward. Why have our people resorted to these surplus, goods which make us look the more miserable! These ‘ukay-ukays’ should have been distributed for free to our people in the hinterlands. The Mangyans, the Timawas, the T’bolis, etc.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Nature has blessed us with beautiful seas, rivers and falls. There should have been a law passed prohibiting people to build their houses in the seas or along the shores. These are eye sores to our shoreline aside from the fact that they are health hazard. Their wastes go directly to the sea since they only holed their floors as their comfort rooms. Why has the health authorities allowed this very unsanitary practice?
If I were the president, I would also see to it that all college graduates every school year could be given jobs so as to sustain their hopes and idealism in finishing their studies. I would create more jobs with the help of all sectors to minimize brain drain. We could achieve this if our leaders would eradicate graft and corruption and if our lawmakers would sacrifice their pork barrels as alibis for their corruption. Their pork barrel this time should be used for income-generating projects.
Foremost, if I were the president, I would create a law banning married Filipino women or mothers to work abroad leaving the family. Mothers’ role in rearing children greatly affects the quality of our future generation. Their absence in the Filipino homes results to many of our youth indulging drugs, crime and vices since the light of the home is extinguish by this desire to earn much. The law would preserve the sanctity of the Filipino home and minimize the emergence of broken homes.
Ahhh…I know that all this longings would forever remains dreams in my imagination. They’ll remain sand castles for I know that I could never be a president. Thanks for reading, anyway.
Monday, February 19, 2007
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