Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
14 Aug 2007

 

 

Ms. Heidi, anybody who loves cooking something good to share with others is not bothered at all by the heat in the kitchen. Plain and simple.

Ms. Ric, I am sorry to disappoint you. Actually, I did not agree with your little analogy. I cannot make myself to agree on something that does not make sense to me.

You have the impression that they will be building in Alaminos an airport with a caliber of an international airport in spite of the fact that you pretty well know that it would cost a heck of a lot more than 700 million pesos to build an international airport like NAIA3.

In your previous post you said, “If my memory serves me right, the cost of this terminal (NAIA3) is about USD400 million.” You keep on calling the proposed Alaminos airport as an international airport when technically it is not.

It does not make sense to me because it is like calling a shanty a palatial house with the goal of twisting the fact to justify a palatial bathroom analogy. Calling the proposed Alaminos airport as an international airport is an oxymoron because it is tantamount to calling it an international domestic airport.

I totally disagree with your logic that they should not put an airport in Alaminos mainly because of your claim that GMA can’t even dream of fixing up the roads to get there. I strongly believe that local and foreign tourists will surely be encouraged to go to Alaminos if it is easily accessible by air just like Boracay and other tourist spots in the country.

What you think as a road repair in Urdaneta is actually a widening of the highway passing through the downtown to solve the traffic jam caused by the bottleneck in that section of the highway. It is a chronic traffic problem that is time consuming and very expensive problem to solve. It is causing too much aggravation to the riding public and definitely affected the livelihood of the people especially the businessmen in the area. It is the result of poor urban planning and lack of foresight and long range plan.

If you are really simpleminded, you should have agreed with me when I said in my previous post that we should keep all our systems in country as simple as possible because it is more economical and easier to manage.

You should be able to see the simplicity of the proposed unicameral parliamentary system of government in comparison to the more complex current system of government in the Philippines plus the billions of pesos the country will save if the senate is abolished.

Ms. Ric, the complex problem of the country cannot simply be solved by a politician getting up in public and say, “We are not taking new projects this year, INSTEAD, we’ll COMPLETE all these unfinished projects littering the country.”

I wish life is as simple as that. Even developed countries like Canada and United States have many people living below the poverty line especially the homeless. Many of them are like you who are also simpleminded and just want simple things in life. Many of them are like you who also want to be empowered with the tools in life to provide for them and their families: food, shelter, medicine, education.

I totally agree with Ms. Eva C. Visperas when she said, “But there’s nothing constant in this world except change, they say. So, I have to embrace it, especially since it involves fulfilling and reaching a dream.”

Godspeed to all.

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