The next crises
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
That P-Noy’s six year term now on its first 15 months will be marked by crisis upon crisis is no longer debatable. Just a month after he took office in 2010, we witnessed the botched Luneta hostage rescue which has earned us countless hours of free exposure worldwide on History Channel and a lingering animosity with Hong Kong which hosts close to 200,000 of our countrymen.
Then, we have the specter of endless violence enveloping the land from the unsolved killings of journalists like Doc Gerry Ortega in Palawan to the beheading of seven Marines in Sulu by the bandit group Abu Sayyaf to the burning of car dealers Evangelista and Lozano and the daily incidents of robberies, hold ups and road mishaps all across the land.
We are also witnessing the incessant increase in prices of basic goods such as pandesal and gasoline and utilities such as power and water and, now, government services as well. Indeed, to say that P-Noy and his boys are up to their neck justifying the non-fulfilment of their campaign promises, including the taming of graft and corruption is to state the obvious. They are in deep, deep doo-doo. And the problems are just starting to manifest themselves. We will not be surprised if immediately after the planned nationwide transport strike over oil price increases and the toll and MRT/LRT fees, we will have a march of women with pans and cooking utensils banging at Malacañang for a reprieve on the cost of power and water..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110914com4.html
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