Don’t blame the people of Dagupan

Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |

Eduardo Pontaoe
25 Oct 2006

 
Mr. Raymund Rayos:

In a nutshell, your take in a Philippines as third country can be absolved of anything undesirable is an affront to the people of Dagupan. It's an admission of corruption and gross incompetence that permeates the economic and political structure of the city under the Benjie which was proven time and again him and the City Clowncil are to blame.

Shopping malls you aggrandize in wild abandon do not make a city. These things exist and multiply like flies on garbage because of demographic expediency. It's the law of supply and demand, Mr. Rayos… the first lecture of economic discipline. It comes naturally in any civilized society… the conduit for the flow of commerce… the marketplace. The managerial leadership in running a government is important in the involvement of the cash flow coming from the taxes these intangible assets generate. You're presuming that progress that you’d seen from 12 years of absence is mighty deceiving. Turning a blind eye on what's happening around you is not only unacceptable but asinine.

Malimgas market is bankrupt. Nepo mall of the Benjie is being abandoned like rats jumping ship. The dredger at $1.5M is dead in the water at Pantal. The landfill boondoggle in San Jacinto is just a memory… a grandiose plan that went deadly wrong and left the people of Dagupan holding an empty bag. The ineptitude of the Benjie and the City Clowncil will make Marcos giggle in his grave. Collective guilt you say, Mr. Rayos? Are you blaming the people of Dagupan what's happening in the city? Are you you trying to rebuke… reproach… upbraid… slander the Dagupenos they are at fault? They cast their nets for the Benjie expecting a plentiful catch. What they got was raw deal… putting Dagupan in the hands of the most notorious political thieves unimaginable.

And for you Sir, visit the city more often to teach yourself a lesson in reality. Other than that… please grow up.

 

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