Footing the ‘bill’ or toeing the line
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
Ayoung man contemplating marriage asked his dad, “Dad, do you have an idea how much it costs to get married these days?” The dad replied bluntly, “Son, honestly, I don’t have an idea how much it costs to get married, because since I got married to your mother, I am still counting the costs!”
Oh yes, ever since we got married to the United States of America without the prospects of a future divorce, we have been counting the costs, often very costly.
Of course, we have to foot the bill of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) not necessarily with the green bucks of “In God We Trust,” but in terms of whatever this country could offer with outstretched arms to the Americans, including entrusting our sovereignty. We have been “footing the bill’ of every Americanism that has shaped every bit and piece, nook and corner of our politics, economics, sensibilities and culture, according to its patterns and paradigms being the land of paradise, an exemplary brother in freedom and democracy, then a dumping ground, a political subterfuge, a coalesced member of the willing, a military windshield against the giant panda roaming the Great Walls..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101114com7.html
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