Think about it
A developed labor force to modernize RP
By Jun Velasco
WHAT happened in Maguindanao could portend a serious political backlash that would take an entire might of the government to handle if it should be able to restore normalcy,
Up to now, we find it hard to imagine how supposedly normal humans could resort to barbaric acts that were only entertained in the movies.
There are speculations the horrific-killings could trigger a civil war given the magnitude of pain that has descended on the victims and their families.
The bestial assaults on the innocent including journalists, women and children couldn’t have been perpetrated by mere hate between angry rival politicians, but by drugged criminals.
Let’s hope and pray hard justice would soon reign on hapless Maguindanao, at the dawning of the Christmas season.
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It’s been decades that we’ve not seen former FVR’s executive secretary Ruben Torres, also Cory’s labor secretary.
Last Friday, at the National Press Club, Ruben, the campus firebrand during his UP Diliman days in the 60’s, said the country’s workers and laborers have remained in the backwoods, literally and figuratively, when they should have been on the forefront of the economy, just like in the developed countries.
If they are properly treated and trained for development, this country will be able to stage an economic miracle, he said, and join the so-called economic tigers. Ruben, a boyhood pal of presidentiable Jun Ebdane in Zambales, has bright expectations for a contemporaneous labor and peasants force which, if creatively mobilized, would push the country to a first world class soon.
It’s a fact that the workers and farmers force in the Philippines has been victims of lip service of a government that is run by feudal, capitalistic and oligarchic leaders. In many countries like England, the Labor Party rules. That’s why they don’t have much economic imbalance like what we have here.
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The second congressional district in Pangasinan has a confusing political stable. Its main stars the likes of Sec. Pingkoy Duque and General Pol Bataoil are hesitant candidates. If they don’t watch their backs, the other less stellar bets — Board Members Nicky Boy Reyes, Von Mark Mendioza and Deo Espino — would just as easily race to the finish line undisturbed.
Their hesitation is due to their social breeding. Pingkoy and Pol can’t just turn their backs on the woman who gave them the breaks in life — President Gloria Arroyo.
Up to presstime, Pingkoy was predisposed to an appointive post, a fact that discouraged Pol to make a go at the congressional plum. When Pol learned that Pingkoy was seriously opting for a non-elective government post, he almost fell from his seat because he had discussed with his family to just forego the political option in deference to PGMA’s advice.
So, Pingkoy and Pol are out in the 3rd District race? It’s now a fight among the members of the “bored.”
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