The worst is yet to come
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
Here I go again, you say. Proclaiming doom, instead of projecting hope. Casting negative thoughts, when there’s so much more to gain out of simply maintaining a positive outlook. Gloria Arroyo is out of Malacañang, isn’t that enough to make me happy?
It’s bad enough that we’re being made to believe wives of certain generals can escape Senate investigation on pretext of severe headaches, and some brothers-in-law can have plush apartment units, luxury cars, and fat bank accounts, without a job. And that while nothing else but the immediacy of resolving the impeachment case against Ombudsman is drummed into our heads, over at the Batasan, congressmen stopped working when the air-con conked out.
As if these aren’t enough, papers report daily on the thousands upon thousands of Filipino workers being sent home from Libya. Fine for the legal OFWs, but what of the legions of victims of dubious recruiters who cannot be extricated because they are undocumented, and will have to remain in the troubled Middle East for as long as only God knows? Let’s not even get into cases where the Pinoy would rather die in wherever than go safely home, for he’s only been just a few months there and still to pay off the whatever he had to mortgage to afford a placement agency, airfare, government training and departure fees, medical certificates and everything necessary to leave..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110304com4.html
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