Idiotic decisions
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| Jacinto ‘Jing’ Paras |
Isn’t it idiotic for a leader of a very poor nation to be donating $1 million to a very rich country such as Japan while his people are suffering from a calamity caused by the typhoon and needed such funds to alleviate their sufferings? The amount of $1 million or its equivalent of P42 million spent as donation could have come a long way to provide the needs such as food, clothing and temporary shelter for the people in Calumpit and Obando in Bulacan and so many other affected areas of the country. Lack of funds has always been the problem of government whenever there is calamity that befall our country and the squandering of precious resources by no other than the highest official of the land just to show his brand of braggadocio is unthinkable.
I wonder if the Japanese who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the $1 million really appreciated the gesture after knowing that the owners of the donated fund, the Filipino people, needed it badly and more than they do.
Another idiotic situation is the inaction of three agencies of government, namely, Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Department of Health (DoH) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). These agencies should have been at the forefront of providing the much needed help and benefits mandated under Republic Act 10022. However, as pointed out by members of the House of Representatives in a hearing conducted by the committee on oversees workers affairs, the said agencies, especially the DoH, were too slow in coming up with the implementing rules, thereby resulting in a virtual monopoly of a group in a medical clinic, GGC Approved Medical Centers (Gamca). The association has controlled and made itself as the only group of clinics that will conduct examinations and check-ups of OFWs for the purpose of securing the medical certificate which will be used as a requirement for the issuance of visas by the countries in the Gulf such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111002com5.html
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sa totoo ay walang kalalagyan talaga ang utak at puso nitong si "pangulong" A_NOY y hocus pcos
"I wonder if the Japanese who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the $1 million really appreciated the gesture after knowing that the owners of the donated fund, the Filipino people, needed it badly and more than they do."
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