Turn Off Gloria Now!

It's really an encouragement to see youth groups such as the Youth Against Debt (YAD) actively engage themselves in political work. To save on electricity, they say, turn off your TV and radio sets this July 28. We'll save P 150 million pesos by doing so. And it would save us valuable time listening to lies they say.

Well, it's good that they realized that. Again, Gloria is sure to highlight the "accomplishments" of her administration, such as using her "moral suasion" to cut diesel prices by 1.50php/liter. Yah, we believe you Madam, as we believe that you won the 2004 elections, that you don't have a hand in both the ZTE and the Northrail projects, that you don't know who benefitted from the Jose Pidal accounts as you don't have any responsibility in that Argentinian deal which put your trusted Justice secretary to jail.

But, just for this time though, Madam Gloria, please be honest.

When you present the State of the Nation, be forthright and tell us that we are in for a lot of trouble. Admit that you bungled your job for the past 7 years you've been in power. Admit that due to your policies, 14.5 million of us are hungry and that 3 million of us living in Metro Manila are barely putting food into our mouths.

As I've wrote in previous posts, government should be forewarned that people has set their psychological threshold in this issue about pump prices and that is 60 pesos per liter for diesel. Should diesel prices breach this threshold, expect those who don't protest before to go out to the streets and rally for your immediate ouster.

You can't raise daily wage, because you're prohibited by law. You can't ask oil companies to lower their prices more because you risk the ire of these big election contributors. And surely, you can't just subsidize this problem with VAT since this will lead to a budget deficit so huge it would devastate our economy going to 2009.