I do not know why the Philippine Vice President (subject to final count by the Supreme Court) Leni Robredo say and act the way she did that many Filipinos believed was not true at all. The first was when she projected herself as an ordinary wife commuting from Naga City to Manila by bus just before the 2016 Philippine Election. Now, there is no news about it. Security reasons? Nawww!
The second was when she told to the world that the millions that she spent during the election was from selling ice cream and porridge (the reason why she was referred to as many as "Lugaw Queen").
(Image from http://www.lugaw-queen.com/)
The third was when she delivered for the United Nations informing all nations about "palit-ulo" scheme in drug war.
(Image taken from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/884448/robredo-i-will-give-details-of-palit-ulo-to-sueno)
And now, she again portrayed herself as lowly Filipino scavenging the trash of Boston for things her daughter Aika used for her Harvard apartment. I know many overseas Filipinos, immigrants or workers, are doing like that. But for a vice-president, who allegedly own properties worth millions, this revelation was a trash. Poor Leni, she cannot get the sympathy of many of her "kababayans" for portraying herself as one of the "laylayan ng lipunan". Many will not believe her antics.
We Are Collective in their Facebook account said it all. The following is the whole article from them:
"Leni is at it again. Just when you thought she's done it all,
she pulls something out of her ass that never ceases to amaze and bewilder us.
Once again, she is desperately trying to portray herself as an underdog by
making this preposterous claim that she went rummaging through garbage in
Boston for items her daughter Aika could use i
n her Harvard apartment.
The inanity and surreal nature of this claim are enough to
convince us that Leni's hypocrisy and lack of shame has gone off to an entirely new and
previously uncharted level that one can only sufficiently describe as beyond
human comprehension. After gracing a gathering of Fil-Am socialites in
California wearing an extravagant Marcosian blue gown while war-torn Marawi burns,
she downplays her insensitivity and garishness by projecting an image of
unparalleled modesty, effectively insulting our collective IQ and throwing
whatever amount of self-respect our fellow Filipinos in foreign countries
strove hard to achieve straight into the garbage bin along with the godforsaken
trash.
(Image taken from https://www.facebook.com/wearecollectivephilippines/)
Leni must think of the whole
country as a bunch of mindless buffoons to seriously fall for this kind of
crap. One last thing we can say about this is that Leni was scavenging indeed.
Not for useful trash but for sympathy and lost credibility. And she has taken
all of us into the heap."
There is no crime in scavenging because it is one way of conserving our resources. Often, I also gathered things which are still useful in the trash bins around the area. But a vice-president doing this is but a joke considering that she is spending millions of pesos for the Harvard education of her daughter.
If VP Robredo want sympathy and respect from her fellow Filipinos, all she has to do is be honest and do her job for those who are in the "laylayan" of society without "gimik".
