One thing that always manages to bewilder me is the persistence of our tendency to take short-cuts. Even when we know that short cuts will lead us to pit falls and patches of quick sand, we still convince ourselves that we are better than those before us who fell along the way. Nobody wants to put in a day's honest labour to earn an honest day's wage. Everybody wants to grab other peoples' lifetime earnings in one day and make it their own. They don't care about the repercussions on the whole community thereby caused. We have simply internalised and justified GREED and the saddest thing is that we have tailored our laws to protect and perpetuate this vice!--or so it seems.
Year after year, we wait to read, and do read, the Auditor-General's report on fiscal spending (or is it mis-spending) by our Civil servants and in unison cry out loud, "Oh No! Not again!"
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That's it. That's all we do.
I wish the report could be re-formatted to show the misappropriated funds side by side the numbers of deprived citizens in our midst, the names of the perpetrators. If we cannot take action on those criminals in our midst, let us at least know them by name.----but then again, maybe I'm living in an Utopia?
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