From the events that are happening right now, we can see that corruption is currently practiced the most in the Philippines. One thing I've observed is that the main cost of corruption is the love of money. It says in the Bible that the love of money is the root of evil. There are many current events that show corruption among politicians, and the most popular one as of right now is what we know as the "Pork Barrel." "Pork Barrel" is basically where the funds and taxes go to, and the purpose of this is for implementing projects. Instead, the money funded was used by some politicians for their own benefit.
Another current event pertaining to corruption is the illegal distribution of money of the World Bank. One employee who was fired from the said company revealed that 9 billion dollars went to a Chinese-Filipino businessman name Lucio Tan. The money should have been used to help reduce poverty in the Philippines.
All of the events I mentioned clearly tell us that the love of money cause politicians, even us, to be corrupt. It can really tempt people to do unacceptable crimes, such thing I mentioned beforehand, that we never knew we are capable of and in an instant, change our lives for the worse. Many politicians have been "victims" of the love of money, such as Erap being involved in Jueteng, Marcos keeping billions of money for himself and the list goes on. These politicians are proofs to the saying that the love of money is directly related to corruption. This means that when there is love of money, there also is corruption.
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