We have witnessed the helplessness and hopelessness of the administration in responding to the challenges arising from natural calamities. One can just imagine if this administration was in the vortex of the vicious communist insurgency and when the country was grappling from the scourge of illegal drug operations and distribution which pushed the country into the edge of becoming a narco state.
What we experienced gives us the creeps of being so vulnerable to the problems and enemies within and from external threats. And yet we have been saber rattling coaxing China to a futile conflict over islands which are subjected to multiple claims. Our defense officials want to go to war and yet cannot even provide rubber boats to rescue stranded victims of floods. The lone rubber boat that arrived in Bicol even came from far away Davao City. The first aid that reached the victims came from the Satellite Office of the Vice President too.
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. opened up the Philippine territory for the United States of America to establish nine military bases. Among the sweeteners is that the bases will primarily be used to assist the calamity -prone Philippines. Maybe the President was waiting for the US bases to help and come to the rescue of flood victims. It did not come. When the floods ebbed 100 plus victims died in rampaging floods. And they waited for the land to dry to bring the relief items.
It is an insult to Malacanang and the House of Representatives that the Office of the Vice President (OVP)~, whose proposed budget was pruned from ₱2-billion to ₱700-million, can manage to prepare, move and distribute relief goods to the victims through its satellite office. In return the bastards in the House of Romualdez hit back and declared that they are mulling to file plunder case against VP Sara Duterte.
Plunder? Half the seats of Congress will be empty if plunder were to be filed against those who purloined the taxpayers money.
