Wealthy politicians are the stingiest?

“That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.” – Henry George, Progress and Poverty

DURING his time, Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is enough for the needy but not for the greedy.” Now, I dare say that the wealthiest politicians in our country are the greediest. Believe you me, all my life, I have been convinced that the only reason why our country’s rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer is because we, the poor, allowed such anomaly to flourish in style.

Enough is enough!
Before the end of October, this year, we, the ant-like poor people of Mindanao and elsewhere hope to be able to prove that the next president of our country or the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi will be the tough-talking yet wellespected Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Super Digong” Duterte.

We will prove to one and all that the time has come when the poor people from Mindanao and elsewhere can provide the necessary logistics and manpower much better than the People Power of 1986.

The framework to completely alter the economic equilibrium in our country has been going on slowly but surely only among the poor, and its legal existence will become a reality before the birthday of our Mama Mary, for us, Catholics, even as the entity is for all the poor regardless of race, color, education and religious beliefs. I have started this movement out of conviction that even the biggest and the sturdiest tree came from a small seed, and the strongest and biggest tsunami started from a small wave.

As a flashback, after our country came to know of our “PACmen”––former Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr., former Governor and Assemblyman Homobono “Bono” Adaza, and former no-nonsense Mayor and Assemblyman Reuben “Ben” Canoy, as the forerunners of our restoration to democracy, your messenger for life for the poor, went to Cebu on his own for the fulfillment of his dream of having the first-ever freedom march against the ruthless conjugal dictatorship.

After the successful first-ever freedom march in Cebu, the snap presidential elections became a necessity. And, true enough despite all the money, the guns and the manpower of then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., Cory Aquino prevailed despite the Comelec, the Armed Forces, and all the evil ones.

So now, even as Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich are using all the giant TV and radio networks, the print media, social media, the word-of-mouth among the poor are agog of the possibility of “Super Digong” Duterte and his entire ticket having a landslide victory come May 9, 2016.

To repeat, none of the announced “presidentiables” come from Mindanao which has a solid backing of 13.5 million voters except Duterte, who has not yet announced his desire to run for president.

Mindanao has patiently waited since 1935, and that’s a long, long time. Not only that, despite 15 Presidents, nine of whom came from Imperial Manila, not one has come from the paradise-like islands of Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan-Tawi-Tawi.

The teeming millions of Mindanaoans spread all over the country will prove to one and all that our time has come, and it cannot be stopped––not by Mar Araneta Roxas of the Liberals, the symbol of selective justice cum arrogance and the UNA sa mga trapo og uban pa.

Yes, Duterte is the overwhelming iridescent dream of the poor from paradise-like islands of Mindanao and elsewhere.

By the way, is it not a fact that PNoy’s Mar Araneta Roxas as well as Vice President Jejomar Binay are the two stingiest donors to the victims of super typhoon Yolanda, tropical typhoon Sendong, Ondoy and all the other calamities in our country?

And is it not also true that both Roxas and Binay had their faces preened in all giant TV networks, and the print media during those aforementioned disasters?

So what shall it be Imperial Manila? “Concon” simultaneously with the May 9, 2016 elections or the fastest and the most effective People Power only in Mindanao, thus, installing Duterte as the first-ever President of the Independent Federal Republic of Mindanao? Tsada, di ba?
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“Power is ever stealing the many to the few.” – Wendell Phillips
The Supreme Court has ruled clearly and distinctly that both the senators’ and the congressmen’s PDAF as well as PNoy’s own DAP are unconstitutional. But PNoy has just submitted the biggest ever budget to our Congress which is full of PDAFs and DAPs but using other nomenclatures for them. Of course, the proposed budget will get the nod of both houses of Congress. And, of course, the senators, the other name for prima donnas, will preen the giant TVs and print. But in the end, they will approve the budget. Otherwise, they will not have the necessary funds to buy votes.

So, right now, the poor’s hope is our Supreme Court. But unless other groups, the so-called Makabayan legislators, the NGOs, the powerful bishops of the Catholics and the other churches as well as the IBP join the complaint of former senator Panfilo Lacson or file their own complaints, there is big doubt, our Supreme Court will act speedily and accurately on the matter of changing the names of the outlawed PDAF and the DAP.  Sobra ka na, Imperial Manila. Sa Mindanao na sab ta. Tsada, di ba?
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“In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.” –Psalms LVI. 11
Thank you Lord for everything. And Lord God, kindly implant especially in our leaders, honesty, humility, transparency and hard work in their solemn task as our servants-leaders because those who have less in life are the sovereign and the very source of their borrowed power and wealth. Finally, Lord, enlighten us all to see the light that greed is a flawed way of life. For truly, there is more profit in giving than in taking. For it is in giving that we receive. Truly, love begets love. Amen!

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