A government we don’t deserve
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Western governments have sent their aircraft to bring home their nationals stuck in Japan as their governments fear the possible blast from the nuclear plant site that could would probably spew out radioactive material in the air and cause harmful effects to their citizens.
Westerners, whether Americans or Europeans, stuck in Japan, certainly have the wherewithal to leave the country and go home to safety. Yet, there are their governments providing aircraft for their nationals, ensuring that their citizens are out of harm’s way before anything that spells real danger to their lives and health occurs.
Then there is Noynoy and his government, who merely tell Filipinos numbering over 300,000 stuck in Tokyo and other parts of Japan, especially those living very near the nuclear plants, to simply stay indoors, as this, to Noynoy is merely the “Level 2” alert. There will be no mass evacuation, the Philippine government said, and if the Filipinos workers in Japan want to return to the country, then they must shell out their own money to pay for their airfares, because, as the Noynoy government says, it has no funds for such expense.
In other words, what Noynoy and his government are saying is that Filipino workers are on their own and for them not to rely on government to bail them out and get them out of harm’s way..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110318com2.html
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