thoughts

i read an editorial suggesting an investigation into the government's failure to adequately prepare and respond to major disasters, particularly the latest -- Typhoon Ondoy.

i agree with this suggestion. of course, it's tempered with an awareness that investigations do little good in this country. i feel like government is showing more and more how irrelevant it is, especially when civilians have to pick up the slack even after they have been greatly cheated and robbed.

i think investigations have to be made by a body of taxpaying citizens. civilians. not allies and cohorts of those being investigated, or those who gain political mileage by looking affronted in front of cameras. investigations into why a thing has failed have to be led by the people who are most affected by its failure and not those who failed.