Jueteng, a gov’t within the gov’t
Eduardo Pontaoe
22 Sept 2008
Congresslady Rachel Arenas fights only the fight she could win.
It’s a fact this jueteng in Pangasinan is into nooks and crannies of people’s lives, and such ignorant presumption Rachel can do magic, is bull.
In this monster of a jueteng, Rachel’s fight to eradicate it will be the fight of her life. She can’t win and she knew that.
The jueteng in every town in Pangasinan is controlled by the puppeteers close to Olympus. Nothing moves in this industry without sanction from the top.
Let me give you a birdseye view of what’s the jueteng action entails.
Forty (40%) percent of gross take 3x a day, is the amount jueteng suckers will play against each other while the other 60% is for administrative cost.
Case in point: Santa Barbara.
A small town, but its daily take of the action, is P280,000 pesos a day. That’s with a capital T. What’s more with towns like Bayambang, Malasiqui and city of San Carlos? Here, we’re talking not by the caritonload, but by the truckload.
JUETENG . . . for all intents and purposes is a government within the Philippinoy government.
And if I were Rachel Arenas, she should put her mind and time where she’s most effective, the economic infrastructure of her district. Let this jueteng thing run its course without interruption.
And for all those crusaders against jueteng . . . EAT YOUR HEART OUT!
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