Eduardo Pontaoe
2 Dec 2007

 

 

Holy Canoli, Ms. Heidi!! How can you be so ingenuous? Your input on everything from the ferry to Espin-off is doubtfully out of orbit.

The ferry service which you think, is a good idea, in reality an iniquitous idea. It won’t generate jobs or create a lot of money as you believed will happen.

Let me explain. As you already know, I hoped, this folly was hatched inside the infertile mind of Mayor Haniani of Alaminos. Like blind and hungry trouts, Mayor Alipa of Dagupan and that so-so mayor of San Fernando took the bait.

This irrational concept was to lure investors, but when no-takers came about, the three horsemen of the Apocalypse decided to take the bull by the horns and do it themselves.

They decided to have a trial run renting or buying – which ever generate more kickbacks – some rickety boats plying the Pasig River which this project in the first place, was to be harness along the rivers of Alaminos, Dagupan and San Fernando.

This is the flaw from the start. What river or rivers connect these three cities?

Looking at the map of Pangasinan, it came to mind, that the river they were talking about . . . is probably “The River of No Return” starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe.

No return alright, in investment or the boats not coming back swallowed by the merciless waves of the Gulf.

Now, the syrup on the blueberry pancake. The planned purchase of these boats, is a loan from the Development Bank of the Philippines . . . the favorite bank for the unscrupulous. Deja vu all over again?

How can Mayor Alipa indulge in this inefficient boondoggle when Dagupan, is swamped with loans still to be paid? With the ineptness of government officials whose interest is in corruption, anything there’s money to be made, they will do it regardless of the people who voted for them.

And goes with it, your favorite governor Guv’nor Espin-off. Espin-off was in California dancing the night away with his wife, the mayor of Lingayen amongst gaggle of wide-eyed admirers (tangahangas) who paid for the right to rub elbows with local talents.

Your words, “To bring the pie home”. Wrong! What Espin-off and his clowns brought home, is a truckload of goods shopped at the trendy stores in Southern California. With a wad bigger than the Provincial Capitol, it’s shopping galore.