Sneaker Pimp

A friend of mine sent me this link the other day.


Imelda Marcos has infuriated me yet again. How can this woman- who together with her husband Ferdinand robbed the Philippine people of an estimated ten billion dollars back in the 70's- even conceptualize starting a fashion line "for the masses"?!? Let alone actually set it up!?!

A little history lesson...
Imelda Marcos is the wife of the late Ferdinand Marcos- president of the Philippines who served from 1965 to 1986.
The Marcos regime was marked by corruption, political repression and gross financial shenanigans, acts to which Imelda was almost certainly privy. During her time as first lady, Mrs Marcos was famed for travelling the world to buy new shoes at a time when millions of Filipinos were living in extreme poverty. The Marcoses were finally deposed in 1986 and fled to Hawaii, where Ferdinand died in 1989. Imelda Marcos later returned to the Philippines and- in spite of everything- was elected a legislative representative from her native district of Leyte. In October of 2001 she was arrested and formally charged with corruption and amassing a fortune of up to five billion dollars illegally during her husband's regime.

Obviously that's the way edited version but I feel like that is more than enough to highlight just how HEARTLESS this woman is. For a Wikipedia article on Mrs. Marcos click this..

Okay so this woman is setting up a business who's target market is the very people she stole from almost thirty years ago... is anyone else annoyed? And I can't say much about her grandchildren either. *sigh* Let's just say some schools need to implement stricter and more TASTEFUL "screening procedures" with student applications!

Anyway, I can't help but be annoyed with her. She has, arguably, set back the economic development of the Philippines by atleast 20 years. The Marcos Regime robbed the country at such a crucial point in history- at a time where we were actually considered to be more developed than Singapore and Hong Kong... and I need not say how developed those two countries are at the moment! And to think, we have a population that outnumbers Hong Kong 7:1 and 21:1 for Singapore. Now we're waaaaaaaaay behind... and it's laregly because she wanted money to build up her famed 3,000+ shoe collection!

For f*ck's sake, Imelda. Get a heart.