Million Peso Dinner

Do you vote responsibly? Do you cast your vote by thinking hard and long. Did you really hear the views and plans of the last person you voted for?

All over the news these past couple of days has been the Million peso dinner that President Arroyo had in New York. This has been riding on the news waves for more than a week. Hear anything positive lately?

Take this situation, if you were loaded and you were given the opportunity to take the President and her entourage out for dinner would you hold back. If money was not a problem would you even think about the price. Second situation, if someone took you out for dinner, promised to pay everything and asked you to order what you want, would you say no.

This situation is nothing and the only reason that it is has been on the news is that the people who want her job and to those who are opposed to her are riding it as hard as they can. If they were in the same situation would they turn down the meal.

This is the most sickening thing to see happen on the lead up to a national election. Sucking people in so hard with worthless issues that the outcome of the election is not what the people really want. Votes are cast against the negative and not for the positive.

During the campaign period besides all the promises the negative campaigning sets in. The negative issues are brought up and dictate the outcome of the election. The real views and platforms of the candidates are hardly ever heard. In a couple of years we can expect major protests and even people powers because we don't like the direction that the elected are taking us. Are we that stupid, he was going to do it all the long, we would of known if we actually listened to what he was going to do and not what was so bad about the other guy.

I wish I could make my voice louder. I wish news stations would open their eyes and not over run the stories that could harm us. I wish politicians would concentrate more on informing the people of what they want to accomplish rather than working on saying what is so bad about the other guy.

Isn't is sad to think that many would say "well that's politics" and just live with it. Isn't it sad that because negative issues are more interesting than actual platforms that people will listen more to the politicians that have bad things to say about others.

The right to vote is a very misused right. People have fought hopeless wars for this and what are we doing with it. Are we using it correctly, do we still deserve it?