Gloria as Prime Minister come 2010?

While we all rage against the expected price hike of electricity charges (courtesy of Meralco), rising food stuffs and that worsening Mindanao peace and order situation, we are forgetting that those in Congress are doing overtime trying to figure out how to tinker with the Charter. Speaker Prospero Nograles proposed to lift the foreign land ownership provision of the Constitution which he expects to be passed before this year ends. Surely, if he has the numbers and can speed up the process in the Committee that is handling it right now, we might see a change in the Constitution prior to 2010. I figured, that would probably happen at the opening of the 2009 Congress. As they say, Gloria has the tyranny of numbers in Congress. And if the Supreme Court resolves the Jala case, Gloria and her minions would probably have their way to suspend indefinitely, the elections in 2010.

Or, elections may happen in 2010, but it’s not a presidential one. It may be a parliamentary elections. If that’ll be a parliamentary one, chances of Gloria running for the prime ministerial-ship is a certainty. 

Will we allow it to happen? Do we see ourselves still amenable to an extended Gloria administration? You decide.

As for me, I’ll better plant kamote in some remote province.

Government to sell lands via Cha-Cha

Like I wrote in previous posts over at New Philippine Revolution, this governance regime is like a huge real-estate company. It wants to sell whatever it grabs or holds on without thinking about the national welfare. First, it abandoned the Spratlys claim,  then tried to partition Mindanao to a BJE and a non-BJE area and tried to sell hectares upon hectares of mining lands to ZTE, a telecommunications company. 

And why is government desirous to sell property? Because that’s the easiest thing to do to replenish government funds. We should have enough funds, right, since government is getting 12% VAT. Yet, most of the funds are being diverted to line the pockets of government officials. One glaring example–the recent scam over at the Department of Agriculture (DA). The supposed funds allocated to assist farmers have been diverted and already, it’s gone.

Now, Speaker Nograles wants to sell more alienable lands to foreigners. And he even intends to ticker with the Constitution just to do that. What would happen to food production? Will it be abandoned to satiate the greediness of these officials for foreign second home monies? If allowed, government would try to sell each and every inch of Philippine lands just so these officials can get their huge commissions from the sale of alienable lands. 

You ask, where’s the money there? Well, the money will come from the Chinese who need additional lands to support their increasing power and production needs.

We don’t dance, Gloria

Gloria and her rapacious gang want us to dance the cha-cha. One of her rah-rah boys, former AFP Chief of Staff and now “peace” adviser Hermogenes Esperon says an amendment to the Constitution is needed to hammer out the kinks in the peace pact between the GRP and the MILF. 

So, ah, many seems to think, the cat is out of the bag. So, that’s it. Gloria again wants to tinker with the Constitution to make herself ruler of this tiny republic of the South China sea. Since 2001, I had a very bad feeling with this midget. She’s small alright but she packs a punch. Well, I’m not surprised. Why? Big surprises come in small packages.

Well, if Gloria thinks that she can get away with this, well, she’s dead wrong. Her puny mind did’nt consider that even the Bangsamoro People don’t want her to use this 40-year old problem as an avenue for her dastardly and selfish plan. The Bangsamoro, though they really want their own government now, can wait. Yes, they will only to avoid further escalation of the problem.

Inday Santiago, the chair of the Mindanao Commission for Women thinks that it’s better now to pursue the peace process, but the implementation should be undertaken by the next president. Meaning, though the Muslims in Mindanao want this war to end now, they can probably wait for another 3 years if need be. 

That’s how people nowadays feel about Gloria. They hate her sooo much that everybody is willing to even go to war just to prolong the peace process and prevent her from changing the charter to suit her own puny plans.

So, Gloria, I hate to say it. Though I support the development in the Mindanao peace process, I will not support government’s insidious plan to change this charter. No sirree!

You have caused us so much misery, so much hatred, so much disillusionment and so much damage to all institutions of government and even destroyed the very values of this nation that not even the prospect of a prolonged war in Mindanao can convince us to make you extend your evil regime.

No, Gloria, we will not dance the cha-cha.