Filipinos also don’t want to be boxers because they just want to beat the living daylights out of their hapless opponents. Their mahirap (poor) mentality, however, can work against their better judgment, even forcing them to risk it all and getting killed in the process on suspicion of, say, pushing or selling prohibited substances. He could be saying that not all of the poor are saints and that not all of the rich are sinners, in the same vein that that not all policemen are wolves wearing wool. Something has got to give or else we will just be oversimplifying the truth that the poor cannot be past committing the evil that (rich) men (and women) do. The rich—and the Vice President is decidedly “not poor”—can actually capitalize on the “poor” to push their platforms.

Source: Manila Times March 17, 2017 17:48 UTC