Odds and ends
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
The Grand Lotto pot has reached over P600 million. That is a dazzling figure that you only ever see attached to roads or condominium projects. Indeed, it could fund so much of our development plans that one congressman took it upon himself to suggest that the pot money be used for such. A random survey among citizens, however, revealed a resounding “Heck, no!” I bet each one of us wants a shot at that money — a chance to be the next Manny (Pacquiao, Villar, Pangilinan)!
The lines in lotto outlets are long, but people patiently wait their turn. Hope burns in their chest that their luck would turn and they would finally know how it feels to have money at one’s disposal, never having to worry about how to pay for the next month’s bills; how to find the money for one’s kids’ tuition fees and pricey gadget obsessions; how to pay for treatment at the hospital and buying those medicines; never having to slave away at minimum wage.
If it’s not the lotto, there’s jueteng, albeit illegal. And that is the root of this issue that has had the church and state locking horns, just like that issue over the use of condoms and contraceptives.
Poverty pushes people to try anything and everything their conscience can take just to survive. Try watching one of those Brilliante Mendoza films, which strive to portray reality at its ugliest so that you can’t turn away – glued by a deep-seated knowledge that these things do exist, we just never wanted to acknowledge them..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101129com7.html
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