CARP — now or never BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 02/14/2010

CARP — now or never BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 02/14/2010 According to a text message that is making the rounds, there are thousands of Central Luzon farmers rejoicing over the recent announcement of Liberal Party (LP) presidential candidate Sen. Noynoy Aquino that he had somehow secured the approval of his family, meaning the powerful Cojuangco clan of Tarlac whence his famous mother, the late President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino comes from, to finally quit procrastinating and proceed with the distribution to intended beneficiaries of some 6,000 hectares of their Hacienda Luisita, in accordance with the dictates of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARP), within five years or by 2015. Because then they wouldn’t mind voting for him. Levity aside, hacienda employees aligned with the United Luisita Workers Union are belittling Aquino’s promise to implement the long-delayed agrarian reform program that the late President Aquino, as well as all the other politicians who had aligned with her in the wake of Edsa I, had kept on stressing was the centerpiece achievement of her administration, the very first after Ferdinand Marcos and martial law because they don’t feel he has the capacity and the personality to see it through its fruition.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100214com4.html

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