THE COST OF FUEL has increased seven times last week. Oil by-products are also spiraling. With prices of prime commodities going up daily, I cannot imagine how a jobless father of a family of four can survive.

The letter written by an 11-year-old girl to her family before committing suicide in Davao City two months ago disproved the claims of hypocrites in the government that our economy is growing strong. Probably, they were referring to the peso versus the U.S.  dollar.

Last week a kilo of second class rice cost only P28. Today it is P34. Without the imported rice of the National Food Authority (NFA), the middle-class family of six can hardly make both ends meet. What would happen if the breadwinner had no fixed income?

A U.S. magazine reported that 11 million Filipinos are living on a one-dollar budget per day. This P41 income a day is only good for two meals of the family. Nothing is left for clothing, medicines, household needs and children’s education.

Government officials have failed to address the country’s poverty problem, primarily the three basic needs of man which are food, clothing and shelter. Deliberate or not, officials play deaf to the abuses of the oil cartel as they easily yield to the temptation of greed!

Their silence is injustice feeding revenge. Our foreign debt has reached trillions. Now every Filipino including those unborn must contribute P40,000 each to pay off our foreign debts.  

Enter Joey de Venecia and Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada spilling the beans on the P340-M ZTE deal and the $504-M Northrail project. Joey doesn’t have the faintest idea that his father, the former Speaker Joe de Venecia, also has a hand in that $504-million scam!

If we look at the records of anomalies, we would surely wonder how this government has been bedeviled by too much corruption. The P600- million Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard is now the most expensive boulevard in the world.

Not only that. Former Chief Justice Hilario Davide of the Supreme Court had his own stench. Did the justices’ chairs really cost P250,000 each? Did they purchase curtains at P5,000 for every window? It is corruption verba legis – the language of the law!

Former Pres. Fidel Ramos, Chairman Emeritus of Lakas-NUCD, the party of thieves, is also a Capone of his time. He was dragged into the Centennial Expo scam of P17 billion and the AMARE- PEA land deal with almost the same amount.

Under his stewardship, so many generals of the AFP were involved in bad money-making habit. Today, the AFP had no major problems. The starred officers are now the general problem of the government!

Add to them the Comelec. The Supreme Court ordered the return of P1.2 billion from its failed computerization program under Chairman Ben Abalos. But nothing happened. Now he is once more linked to the ZTE scam together with the first gentleman.

DepEd officials are not to be left behind. Computer worth P250,000 is the name of their game. For that corruption, they earned for their office a new mark in the world of their own, departamento de los ladrones – a department of thieves!

Remember Code NGO? Its officials got, without sweat, a P12-billion blessing from the Palace approved by the president. Now it seems to have disappeared in the list of NGOs. But nemo est supra legis – no one is above the law – Judas must pay!

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