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Butch Bagabuyo

“All wealth is the product of labor.” – Locke

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IN his gospel of wealth, Andrew Carnegie, wrote: “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer to his lifetime for the good of his community.”

Early in life, both my Tatay and Maling taught me to work hard and good in order to attain happiness, not wealth. I did not know then that my elders who were hardly schooled had the knowledge of intellectuals with hearts in the likes of Andrew Carnegie whose philosophy was that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth which has to be administered for the good of the community.

With the supposed announcement late last year by two super rich people–Bill Gates, and Zuckerberg of Facebook–of “letting go 95% of their wealth” to some kind of a foundation for the poor, strengthens my belief that the only way the rich and powerful can attain lasting peace and happiness is to share their God-given blessings with those who have less in life.

Further, it dawned on yours truly that the idea of sharing ones’ surplus wealth for the needy is much preferable than the philosophy of the traditional patrimony where parents horde their wealth for their children and relatives only to be squandered by the latter. However, because nothing is perfect in our world of the finites, I am fully convinced that even with the best of intentions, we just have to be prepared to meet roadblocks along and every which way. This being so, we have no other alternative but to perpetually practice, even in the smallest of endeavors, faith, hope and love as ordained by God. It is a must that as we hope to walk our talk we must be guided by our faith that without God we are nothing.

As the campaign period is fast approaching, my core group and I are preparing to meet all contingencies without wealth and in the ocean of wants and an impeding war of all kinds. A good many of our thinkers are becoming paranoid. They tell us that because China, our wealthy neighbor, are breaking all the rules, we just have to listen and abide by the wishes of our “Big Brother,” the United States of America that always gets whatever it wants from us.

As a puppet of America, our government is squandering our hard-earned taxes in purchasing war materiel. But we can never ever hope to be self-sufficient in defending our shores against invaders.

Undoubtedly, China, on one hand, is not and will never invade us. They are not as stupid as our legislators want us to believe. China cannot even invade their own Taiwan. What more the Philippines.

On the other hand, our own President vetoed the much needed help to the fast dying SSS pensioners at the altar of good management. Without fear of contradiction, I declare that the so-called financial wizards in our government forced our naïve cum incompetent President to veto the measly P2, 000-monthly increase in pension which is roughly P67 daily. The truth of the matter is definitely not to save the pension plan but actually to feed “pa more” their own debilitating greed. And the jokers in Congress, especially the reelectionist senators, swear they cannot override the veto but they may just agree to cut the increase to P500 monthly or P17 daily. Wa mo kyapi!

Unless, we, the teeming millions of the poor, will join our hand-to-mouth caravan and overwhelmingly elect the charismatic and need of the hour Duterte-Cayetano tandem on May 9, 2016, we, Mindanaoans and the rest of the poor Pinoys, would continue to wallow in the quagmire of poverty courtesy of Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich, the very few hypocrites who have been running our government in the last 80 years and counting.

Believe you me, the 93,000 OMR, the newly invented camouflage of PCOS (read them: Oplan Mar Roxas and President Cory’s Only Son) notwithstanding, coupled with the fabricated trending greedily manipulating the so-called survey-takers kuno, “cannot stop the idea that has come of age”–a Mindanaoan President.

God-willing, our “One Mindanao” would touch base with all the poor Mindanaoans all over our archipelago starting this Valentine’s Day using our very own God-sent-dream–that is, “hand-to-mouth-generosity,” the only alternative to the vote-buying scheme perpetrated by Imperial Manila, the trapos and the filthy rich.

Enough is enough!

Duterte-Cayetano pa more

Tsada, di ba.

“I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.”–Edward Moore, The Gamester

Yesterday, a long lost friend from the college of law, sent me a text message. To make a long sad story short, I immediately and thankfully favored him with a meeting in my favorite if not, my only watering hole. But to fair with him, I told him frankly that I would willingly spend some precious moments with him to reminisce and compare notes. But as a poor man, as I’ve always been, I will never be deterred in exposing the crimes, not just sins of dismissed transition Mayor Oscar S. Moreno.

I told him that the reason why I placed my life and the future of my family on the line in the last 2013 mid-term elections was because I deemed it my duty to right a wrong. The late Atty. Fred Gapuz and I had manned the fort, as it were, in making the first attempt of the then governor and subsequently city mayor Vicente “Dongkoy” Emano a stunning success despite the common and uncontested knowledge that Dongkoy then was no match in all departments–wealth, skill and machinery–against the tried and tested PDP-Laban candidate. But when Dongkoy refused to prosecute the people he maliciously accused during the campaign of unmitigated graft and corruption, out of shame but more of disgust, I silently left our city and returned only in the 2013 elections with a mission impossible.

I am once again putting my life on the line for the very same reason and more– unconscionable graft and corruption hounding the boo-boo na hambuguero pa gyud.

Team Robust Rufus pa more.

Tsada, di ba?

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