Last night, when the ten million pesos bounty was announced, I wanted to go out and look for Janet Lim-Napoles. Who doesn’t want to have ten million bucks?
While inching our way through EDSA tonight, my driver told me that Napoles had a 3-day undas at her mother’s 30 million pesos mausoleum at Heritage Park, complete with catering and lechon. That she owns 30 houses but he said she doesn’t own one where we live although she could very well afford it. I added “kahit saan sa mundo kaya nyang bumili sa bilyun-bilyon….”.
He also said that small time magnanakaw surrender to the police, but big time magnanakaw go to Malacanang. “Mam, baka nagkape pa dun at kinausap ni Presidente na wag idamay ang kanyang mga kaalyado”. Pls note that among our drivers, this one is college graduate and is Pentium 4.
Yan ang kanyang conspiracy theory. He also added that we all pay taxes. “Basta mam, bumili, may tax. Kahit yung mga exempted akala nila wala silang tax, meron yun”. I am pretty sure he must have heard that rationalization somewhere.
His final words for the night—– “Mam, ang pera natin, winawaldas nila at ninanakaw lang”.
Do you feel the same way? I do.
