Auntie Charo's Soapbox

We yell and scream all day long because stupid people don't use their seat belts. We watch stupid people drive by with their precious todlers standing in front seats or being held by kids not much older than the todlers, seat belt not fastened. Insert yell and scream!!!
We even have fire fighters asking for funds so that they can go to places like Manila Mall and GPO to teach dumb parents how to properly install baby seats. Most parents are too dumb to read instructions and need help from fire fighters who need help themselves with the installation. Am I boring you yet? Okay, we spend an inordinate amount of time on fixing something that's not broken and look the other way when it comes to the problem that's right infront of our nose! Those damned pick-up trucks that transport tiny little children and not so tiny people. And those damned pick-up trucks don't follow the speed limits most of the time. And guess what, those damned pick-ups don't have seat belts that keep the passengers from becoming flying objects when the pick-up becomes a hood ornament on another vehicle.
Who's surprised that we had a death on one of our roads yesterday morning involving a man who flew out of the back of a pick-up truck? It wasn't the first time, it wasn't even the first time on that road. A few years ago, a man from one of the neighboring islands flew out of a pick-up on the same road just a few miles north from where yesterday's accident took place. Did we do anything to stop the transport by pick-up bed? Nope! Do our legislators have the time to change the law to make it illegal to transport human being-young and old in the back of same? Yep! Did they take the time to change the law? Nope! Will you re-elect them? Probably...why? Because apathetic! You just don't care. Those goons waste your money and you sit back and do nothing.
Yesterday's accident killed a man that you're not related to so who cares. Around here, if it doesn't happen to us, who cares? How sad that we've gotten this way. How did we get this way?
Senator Robert Klitzkie has proposed a Bill that will make the legislature a part-time legislature that will save this government millions of dollars. The senators who don't know how to do anything else but shuffle papers are against the Bill. They need to eat out of the public trough(rhymes with cough). They'll stand up and argue and argue so that the Bill won't pass. I dare you not to re-elect those who vote against this Bill. I dare you to promote this Bill to bring bake the real politicians who want to work for real government from the heart rather than from their check book.
The same senators that are against the Bill to make the legislature part-time are probably the same ones who sit on their hands that won't change the law making it illegal to ride in the back of a pick-up!