Readers’ E-mailed reactions more credible

By Gerry Garcia

IN this province as probably elsewhere in this benighted Republic the national daily most often preferred and read is the Philippine Star. At least from this writer’s impression, who often finds the copies all sold out before noon in his favorite news-stands.

One section of the paper most read because it involves written participation of readers wanting to have a say on certain vital issues . . . is the INBOX page.

It’s from this section in fact where I find poll and opinion surveys more factual and not misleading.

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E-mailed reactions from readers in Marikina and Quezon cities, for instance, are one in saying “the main reason why the Philippines lag behind other Asean economies is politics and lust for power. The political Opposition pulls us down like crabs and defective democracy.”

“JDV said the presidential system is a failure. True because there is graft and corruption.”

From Pasig City, J. Bernabe comments “In their hurry to gain power, instead of building up, the opposition brings the government down and the whole country with it.”

While Jaime Bigornia from Abra says “GMA’s strategy of receiving attacks with a smile is paying off. Destructivists are scratching their heads now.”

And from Cebu comes this scatching remark on the upper house: Eliminating the Senate is the best way to help trim down the budget in the government.

There seems to be more positive commentaries in favor of the present establishment . . . . than negative ones.

There are many more but it’s  our sure guess that our JDV’s diagnosis of what’s  ailing the country comes  not only from his being once a crusading media man but also from his experience as a veteran politician rubbing elbows with the  despised trapos and, primarily, from a  personal feeling as a Congress leader that the presidential system of  government with a bicameral Congress has miserably failed to push the country forward and that is why amendments to the Constitution, popularly dubbed Cha-Cha, are needed.

Joe, who has been Cha-cha advocate since 1990, is now asking those opposed to charter reform to accept the challenge of amending the Constitution and ending the historic failure of a divided bicameral presidential system.

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It’s a delightful experience, during these rainy days, motoring our way through floodless San Carlos City from Basista to the booming but flood-prone Dagupan City.

San Carlos City Mayor Resuello, father of the new San Carlos metropolitan city, has not only successfully enticed Manila-based MacDo and Jollibee to invest in his city besides building a sprawling new public market, but also has entirely updated the downtown horizon with the opening of the CSI Warehouse mall… the same thing he had done in the public market center and its surroundings. A new boulevard has been built along side the now vacated public school area leading to the spanking Doña Eva Macaraeg Macapagal Elementary School across the main highway.

The mayor, also seen as a “better” engineer than Fidel Ginez, also purchased dredging machines to restore old and long-silted  rivers and creeks so that waters from the Agno are safely diverted from inundating the city proper and most of its barangays.

Jun Velasco was right when he advised local flooding experts to consult the jolly mayor on what he has done to make his city totally flood-prone.

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