Members of Congress need an idea of ‘enough’

At the heart of the crisis and nightmare now racking the Philippine Congress, there is this troubling fact that throughout the mind-boggling story of the pork barrel, the Napoles kickbacks, the Malacanang bribes, the DAP, the congressional insertions, and so on, our senators and representatives never paused to define for themselves, “how much is enough pork barrel, enough kickbacks, enough bribes, enough looting of the treasury,” beyond which they would not go. There was no cliff they were not prepared to jump.

In our culture of consumerism, when we have no idea of what is enough, the natural tendency is to demand and ask for “more” and “more.” It is easy to go crazy, and hard to stay sane.