Save the SK — from itself
Posted on October 1, 2007 - Filed Under General |
WHY are some people agitating for the abolition of the Sangguniang Kabataan?
To us, we believe it is the right thing to do.
Aside from the drain on the coffers for the salaries of such “young and idealist” members of the local legislative councils and their counterparts in the barangays themselves, times have changed – so much and so wrongly – for the Hope of the Fatherland these days.
And if the youth representatives have learned anything at all from sitting in the councils of their barangays, towns, cities and provinces, towns, it is to get paid without doing much or not doing anything at all. 
The self-righteous among them will surely disagree and would probably start writing reams and reams of rebuttal to this but the fact stares us in the face all this time: SK representatives today are a disservice to the lofty ideals of their organization.
In fact, if we may cite some of their own interpretation, they believe signing council resolutions for their monetary benefits and for basketball donations to this or that barangay is all there is to their job, nothing more.
Of course, as observers have always noted, we can hardly fault most of these SK members for such unfortunate belief of their calling. Most of them simply follow their elders and play by their elders’ rules. They have long since known that playing heroes or critics or opposition doesn’t pay –only blind obeisance and fawning loyalty to powers that be does, and handsomely too.
So, what logic is there to add these budding albatrosses to the necks of a burdened government coffer when there are already older, heavier ones clinging there?
Even a former city local government operations officer had once openly espoused doing away with the SKs after observing and feeling repulsed by their laid-back attitudes and utterly dismaying views of public service.
Get rid of the SK as part of the formal structure of governance. After all there are more than enough oldsters and parents who care for and can better help and guide their age bracket. We have glorified and indulged the SK long– and painfully– enough.
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