population and beaurocracy
These days, if you have to go out somewhere, the first thing u need to find before you go forth on your adventure is strangely, the road . For when u do go out , the only thing you see now days is people and more people fighting for their right to use the tar. Believe me , its been ages since i have actually seen that beautiful black piece of art they call the road, such is the level of congestion on my streets .
This is what is ails my city, people keep flooding in and they never stop. It isnt bad for the city or for the people actually, quite the opposite. Both have prospered and always will prosper in their own right, but the infrastructure just cant handle the sustained pressure ! The government, if it is in its right mind, needs to take care of its people so that the people prosper and the nation too as a result of it. But as usual, the government is in shambles.
The situation wouldnt have been half as bad, had we not had monkeys sitting in office here. These people have this fascinating ability to show how overloaded with work they are ,while at the same time managing to accomplish absolutely positively nothing.
Half the money allocated to any official government project goes into the wellbeing of the government official's very unofficial mistress. The rest goes into the contractor's pocket to help him pleasure his and all his minions' whims. So we are left with infrastructure that would be considered state of the art when alexander the great was rising to power in europe and jesus christ was still the messiah-to-be .
Such is the rot in the system that the official is actually surprised if you dont offer them money under the table ! He might even check his rulebook to see if this isnt illegal !
Nowadays a new concept has come in, thanks to the media and it is called the sting operation. The journalist catch the corrupt government official accepting bribes red handed with the help of devices such as hidden cameras and tape recorders.
Well, no worries to the more seasoned warriors of the corrupt realm, this just increases their popularity amongst their own , and helps them create a sort of notoriety amongst the general public.
And in a world infested by such maggots do we simple folk try to eke out an existence. The hope that atleast one star will shine amongst all the black holes and actually do something for the city keeps us going. For that is what my city desperately needs and if this doesnt happen, the city will collapse unto itself and a star will be banished into being a black hole.