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| Larry Faraon, OP |
What really is the problem of jueteng in this country is the take, of course — and more to the point, the “undertakers” from the government personnel who act as protectors and coddlers of the said illegal numbers game. But President Noynoy averred that P2 million is cheap, even casting doubt on the good Archbishop Oscar Cruz’s allegations. Ah, coming from a president, it confuses me about the kind of mental framework that comment was coming from. Could it be the same frame of mind that his Undersecretary Rico Puno dismissed the hostage-taking event as an “isolated case” or a “local problem” since the death toll may not be that many compared to the Ampatuan’s?
P2 million or P2, it does not matter actually, it is still classified as an illegal and corrupt take and immoral at that.
The only solution to the jueteng problem is to legalize it, pure and simple, after which we have to stop talking about it either as diversionary tactic or trivialization efforts in order to relegate the substantial and more pressing problems of this country. Jueteng rakes in endless cash for the assigned “beneficiaries” because precisely it thrives illegally and the “Lords of the Jueteng Ring” are singing their way to the banks with laundered money, depriving the government and the people with much needed sources of funds. Legalizing jueteng would channel the otherwise splintered cash into the one single coffers and not to individual pockets.
.... MORESource: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100919com6.html
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