Hurrying up

There are three bills that the Senate has been hurrying up. One is called Sin Tax and the others are Reproductive Health and Freedom of Information.

Something is funny the way these bills are labeled. The sin bill is not about sin but about health and the reproductive health is not about health but death which is a grievous, mortal sin. The Freedom of Information is being debated not about freedom but how to curtail freedom.

The proponents are hurrying them up to beat the time that Congress adjourns for the holidays. When it resumes, the members would be absent (with pay and perks of course) since they are running for reelection.

Some senators have still one more term to go but they are also absent, like our Occidental Negros SP members, on “official business”, when many of them are actually doing monkey business, like sabotaging legislation to prevent the two major projects of Governor Alfredo Marañon that would create jobs and provide facilities to students.

Of course, Gov. Marañon is hurrying up these projects because the call centers locators cannot wait until Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez and his allies in the NPC change their minds or get booted out of office.

Business Processing Outsourcing is very competitive and other provinces and cities (including faraway Kabankalan) are hurrying up to get the locators. BPO is a multi-billion business but it seems Alvarez and company would rather play politics and parade their dislocated economic than create jobs. The only job they can think of is getting elected and for that, they have to be subservient to whoever dangles pot money for their election campaign.

What is sad if by the time we kick them out, other provinces and cities shall have completed their facilities and we have a skeleton of steel and concrete crying to heaven, their arms outstretched in hex.

The English classes in NOHS are hurrying up the completion of their classes so they can get out of studying under the trees while the SP members are having their “official business” while getting paid. Teachers and students, not Marañon, are the victims in this power play.

Pia Cayetano is in great hurry to get her pet project, the RH bill passed in the Senate because the money from the Millennium Development Fund provided by the Planned Parenthood top brasses of the Obama government are about to be depleted. She cannot wait because she knows that if the Senate does not act now, chances of her pet bill intended to buy millions worth of contraceptives will be nil by January 2013 when senators go into campaigning.

The UN has already pitched in, claiming that more people die because there is no RH bill. They die from poverty, the UN say, but the UN kept silent about how many people die because of its propagation of abortion, the killing of the unborn and how many died because of health complications from contraceptives and recently its program of assisted suicide.

The UN Population Council people are also hurrying because money is running out and they have little to show to prove that their remedy for the poverty of the world – killing the unborn and the “socially unproductive” or controlling population is working.

On the other hand those countries that listened to this Council are now having problems with the rising number of elderly that have to be cared for (and assisted to die) since there is less number of young people coming into the work force and contributing to social security funds.

These countries are now reaping the fruits of their foolishness thinking that less people means progress. Now they are realizing that less young people means heavier social services and reversing the trend is more difficult than getting people to stop producing babies and replenishing their disappearing race.

Malacañang is trying to show it wants the FOI passed but its own officials are working secretly to get that bill junked. The Aquino government is now showing it has fallen into the same rut as previous governments with scandals of corruption. With FOI, more sordid transactions can be unearthed and surely nobody in government wants that to happen.

But rotten transactions have a way of getting their stench out into the open.

The International Monetary Fund is backing the immediate passage of the sin tax bill which is good to keep people out of smoking and reducing death from cancer.

Meantime media handlers in Negros are hurrying up positioning their candidates and media. One group is buttonholing broadcasters while one radio station is sacking block timers who support the opposite camp as the candidates of its owners. While several block timers are out of work, the station’s “allies” are broadcasting more than once a day repeating the same issues.*

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