Rome, Italy 4 December 2015
Noy’s Rome mis-adventure with OFWs
There are people who are wondering about what Pres. Aquino has
accomplished in his visit with OFWs in Rome. Can he call it a success? Many
OFWs considered his Rome ‘adventure’ a dismal failure. He only succeeded in
projecting himself a clown masquerading as a national leader and someone who
could speak so much words without saying anything.
His speech before us in his meeting with AFWs, he spoke at length about
the successes of his administration… economic growth, and upgrading of youth
education with his K+12 program. He boasted about his health program and the
progress on tourist industry, his war against crime and corruption.
But we already heard it many times before. And we also knew that his so-called economic
progress is empty because it has’nt reached the ordinary people. We have already
seen that his K+12 program is not really projected to upgrade the education in
the country, it only serve as a factory for more migrant workers. His health
program is a sham. Orfinary people could still ill afford the prohibitive cost
of medicine and hospitals which has been privatized. Crime still abound and
curroption still destroy our economy and political system.
It is not what we expected from the president. To our dismay, he never
made mention on what he accomplished for us OFWs. We wanted to hear about legal
assistance for OFWs, lightening the burden of excessive fees, lessening of
bureaucratic hardships each and every OFW before, during and after their
sojourn in far awa lands. We want to hear from hin what steps he has done in
industrialization and genuine agrarian reforms that would give the Filipinos
jobs and income to enable them to live a decvent human life without having to
migrate. About the end of Labor Export Progran tha gives a deathblow to many
families.
Above all, we expected him to tell us abouth the stopping of endless human
rights violations and persecution of peoples leaders and activists. The killing
of Lumad and other indigenous people of the Philippines.
He came to Europe this time to participate in the talks on climate change.
But has he the right presence of mind when he boasted on his programs to
minimize the effects of pollution, when he himself support the use of polluting
fuels like carbon to produce power in our country? His open invitation to
foreign entities to destroy the environment of the country through destructive large-scale
mining that plunders our natural wealth and displace the indigenous people? If
this president believed that he has been doing well in this field, then he is
either telling himself leas or is a hippocrite.
The president’s meeting with the OFWs in Rome is a failure. It only
succeeded in projecting himself as a clown. He succeeded to amuse us and make
us laugh with his sdenseless anecdotes about himself being a bachelor
president. But laughing does not mean we arre happy about him. We are dismayed,
we are disgusted. Truly he is the clown who could speak may words without
saying anything.
There are people who are wondering about what Pres. Aquino has
accomplished in his visit with OFWs in Rome. Can he call it a success? Many
OFWs considered his Rome ‘adventure’ a dismal failure. He only succeeded in
projecting himself a clown masquerading as a national leade and someone who
could speak so much words without saying anything.
His speech before us in his meeting with AFWs, he spoke at length about
the successes of his administration… economic growth, and upgrading of youth
education with his K+12 program. He boasted about his health program and the
progress on tourist industry, his war against crime and corruption.
But we already heard it many times before. And we also knew that his so-called economic
progress is empty because it has’nt reached the ordinary people. We have already
seen that his K+12 program is not really projected to upgrade the education in
the country, it only serve as a factory for more migrant workers. His health
program is a sham. Orfinary people could still ill afford the prohibitive cost
of medicine and hospitals which has been privatized. Crime still abound and
curroption still destroy our economy and political system.
It is not what we expected from the president. To our dismay, he never
made mention on what he accomplished for us OFWs. We wanted to hear about legal
assistance for OFWs, lightening the burden of excessive fees, lessening of
bureaucratic hardships each and every OFW before, during and after their
sojourn in far awa lands. We want to hear from hin what steps he has done in
industrialization and genuine agrarian reforms that would give the Filipinos
jobs and income to enable them to live a decvent human life without having to
migrate. About the end of Labor Export Progran tha gives a deathblow to many
families.
Above all, we expected him to tell us abouth the stopping of endless human
rights violations and persecution of peoples leaders and activists. The killing
of Lumad and other indigenous people of the Philippines.
He came to Europe this time to participate in the talks on climate change.
But has he the right presence of mind when he boasted on his programs to
minimize the effects of pollution, when he himself support the use of polluting
fuels like carbon to produce power in our country? His open invitation to
foreign entities to destroy the environment of the country through destructive large-scale
mining that plunders our natural wealth and displace the indigenous people? If
this president believed that he has been doing well in this field, then he is
either telling himself leas or is a hipocrite.
The president’s meeting with the OFWs in Rome is a failure. It only
succeeded in projecting himself as a clown. He succeeded to amuse us and make
us laugh with his senseless anecdotes about himself being a bachelor
president. But laughing does not mean we are happy about him. We were dismayed,
we were disgusted. Truly he is the clown who could speak much words without
saying anything.
