Welcome to the Republic of Circus, where the workers bleed and the clowns get paid. In this grand national sideshow, some elites skip work, dodge duty, and still enjoy full salaries, while ordinary people grind from sunrise to midnight just to stay afloat. Sweat, exhaustion, hunger, endless commutes—all punishments for the powerless. Meanwhile, the privileged lounge in comfort, collecting rewards for doing nothing. This isn't just unfair. It's a slap, a spit, a punch to everyone who actually works.
This is not incompetence—This is mockery.
Workers break their backs, yet barely earn enough to keep a household alive. Miss a day, and their salary gets slashed. Stay late, and overtime pay magically disappears. They endure sickness, traffic, and fatigue, just to keep the country running. And those at the top? High pay, fat allowances, perks untouched, accountability optional.
How long will we tolerate this circus, where the people who build, teach, clean, and drive are punished for effort, while those who contribute nothing keep on collecting? The system bends for the privileged and breaks the rest of us.
This is the real obscenity: a class that feasts while the nation starves, sleeps while workers count coins to stretch another week, and still dares to call it "public service."
Workers deserve leaders who show up—not politicians treating office like a paid vacation. If they can't attend sessions, draft laws, or serve the people, they shouldn't see a single centavo of public money. Not one.
Public service is not a privilege—it is work. Real work. Funded by people who actually labor. And if those in power can't grasp that, maybe it's time the Filipino worker stops carrying a government that refuses to carry its own weight.
The era of being fooled is over. The people who keep this country alive deserve better than leaders who are paid to do nothing.
Written by John Benedict N. Banday, Insight PH
John Benedict N. Banday, Insight PH is a dedicated campus journalist and contributor. Their insightful writing sparks meaningful conversations and keeps the community informed.
