Political issues of families

PANGASINAN is the third vote-rich province in the country. This particular trivia is the single most important information to all wannabes, from the party list to the senatorial, vice-presidential and presidential races. You can be sure that the province cannot and will not be ignored by hopeful candidates that matter.

But when they do, they come mouthing same old motherhood statements from templates crafted over the past 4 decades. Most everyone attempts to make the overused and trite promises to make life in the countryside better, sound novel. Truth to tell, listening to all, one wonders if everyone is running for the presidency because they speak in generalities.

Most come to the province really not knowing what Pangasinenses need most from the national government. But if they do care to know, there are actually only two main issues that affect a good majority of Pangasinan families that mean everything to them: Protection of life and property from calamitous events and protection of families from illegal drugs.

So far, we’ve not heard any candidate how they propose to alleviate sufferings of families who suffer the brunt of worsening flooding, whether natural or man-made.

We’ve not heard of candidates talk about the worsening ills of illegal drugs and how they propose to protect families from the clutches of drug lords that have succeeded in breaking down family and moral values.

Until someone can talk to Pangasinenses on those terms, we say they are not worth listening to.

 

‘Sosyalan’

WAS the APEC Summit a success?  Yes, if it’s about securing the safety of world leaders from 22 APEC nation-members that included US President Barack Obama, China President Xi Jipeng and Japan President Shinzo Abe.  On the economic side, maybe yes, too, if we go by trade deals struck bilaterally; however, until and after concrete contracts are signed and for immediate implementation, they remain just that – deals done drastically.

For, in the words of one pundit, the APEC Summit was nothing but “sosyalan,” a cocktails party among leaders dying to unwind from the rigors of boring daily grind—to the tune of P10 billion.  They’ve gone back to their respective countries now, but not after Metro Manila had been transformed into off-limits, a la impregnable Fort Knox, for poor folk for whom the Summit was supposed to serve and protect, courtesy of Malacanang.

Irony of idiotic heights.

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