P3 billion for peanuts of a salary

The Palace says GMA is overworked but underpaid. That makes her some sort of an epitome of the Pinoy workingman. Like Mang Pandoy was the symbol of poverty in our land.

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“That’s what surprises me,” says one kompadre of mine. “GMA is overworked, GMA is underpaid. But she clings to the job despite the calls for her to step down.” And my kompadre adds: “She wants to be called a martyr or something?”

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Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago says a presidential hopeful needs P3 billion to run in 2010. Big sum just to land a job that pays only P60,000 a month!

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I told my kompadre that if I have P3 billion in the bank I’m not that crazy to spend it to land a P60,000-a-month job. And my kompadre says: “Hahaha. You must be thinking of an editorial job, Pre.”

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Cebuanos in the US are very well informed about Joavan whom many call the “Terror of Talisay.” This I learned from former Talisay Councilor Mar Rabaya. Thanks to the Internet and in particular the websites of the newspapers like ours (www.philstar.com). Many Cebuano friends and acquaintances in many places in the US have sent me emails commenting on Joavan and his deplorable activities and expressing apparent disgust at his father’s failure to make him toe the line.

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Email from Jo Ann Orlina of New Jersey, USA: “I always read your online edition. Do keep it up ... Please extend my best regards to Papa Nil and Mama Sally in Bohol. They read your column both in the Net and in the newspaper itself. Thank you.” Thank you, too, for reading The Freeman in the Net. And do keep it up, too.

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The Department of Agriculture is stepping up the implementation of several measures for the hog industry. By way of complementing this hog industry program of the government, the Cebu Integrated Farmers’ Multi-Purpose Cooperative will conduct a one-day seminar on hog or pig raising on Sept. 20, 2008, from 8 AM to 4 PM at the Conference Hall of the Department of Agriculture on M. Velez St., Cebu City. More information on this seminar can be had by calling Dr. Annie Atillo, Tel. 261-7184 and/or Mrs. Rose Canastra, Tel. 261-2129.

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BOBIT SAYS: “I count my days by sunrises not by sunsets, my life by smiles not by tears, and when life is at its twilight I will count my age by friends not by years.”

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