Gentle Demolition?

As the date for the eviction of the squatter colony fronting the city cemetery nears residents there are getting nervous about how the DPWH would demolish there homes. So we asked Engineer Manolo Rojas who heads the project and he said they would be as diplomatic as they could to avoid any untoward incidents like human barricades, bolo wielders, slingshot volleys and (God forbid) gunfire.

Budol-Budols baffle  police

Not a single day passes now without some naïve women being victimized by what police call Budol-Budol con-artists who hoodwink their victims either by hypnotism or by their magnetic personality.

City Police Chief Hector Enage admits they’re almost impossible to catch for like Ninjas they are amost impossible to see.

May we therefore humbly suggest that they hire several of the most naïve-looking women in Maasin and have them roam the city with 500 peso bills bulging from their hand bags and pockets. Or better still have them promenade around the city park looking for signs on what they should do with their money.
Another option would be to arrest the victims themselves for being so easily fooled.   
This should certainly scare  would be victims of these scalawags. 

People Need Work, not Dole Outs

It’s really difficult to understand the reasoning behind the Aquino administration’s Dole-Outs for the poor and unemployed program and its concurrent moratorium on public works projects.

Government infrastructure projects though tainted with corruption employs people who could then earn enough money for food and their children’s education. Deprive them of this livelihood and they too would sign up for the DSWD dole out program.

We seem to be encouraging mendicancy and discouraging self-reliance. Noynoy should stop listening to DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman and get advice from people like Pia Hontiveros and her sister who makes a lot more sense and are prettier.     

Wanted School chairs

One of the major reasons many elementary students skip classes is they have no chairs to sit on. According to DepEd sources they still lack over 500,000 chairs and are seeking donations from Good Samaritans to buy them.

May we suggest they include the CBCP among their list of possible donors. Why? Because the Church is the reason for the lack of chairs because we produce enough babies yearly to populate a metropolis the size of Quezon City. The Bishops are the main reason why the Reproductive Health Bill is gathering dust in Congress. So I guess they should also pressure congress to increase the annual appropriations for public education. AMEN?