Sep 14 2008
Politics behind food crisis
There’s another scam over at the Philippine Department of Agriculture now being headed by Secretary Arthur Yap. The Inquirer today bared a Joc-Joc Bolante type of scam which occurred again in the same department. Names of beneficiaries were faked and funds siphoned off to other uses and possibly, lined the pockets of greedy men.
So, that explains why our farmers were unable to plant seeds because they have’nt received their rations from the government and that also explains why there’s low harvest yields.
This is too much already.
This government is too greedy and doing these at our expense. What’s worst, this scam involves food security and how would we secure our food stocks if these continue? No wonder we have exorbitant food costs. Food costs continue to rise due to low productivity. And we allow smuggled goods and foodstuffs, even import rice when the main problem lies not in production capabilities rather in graft and corruption.
Politics have totally corrupted our state. Governance has now been totally transformed from being public service to public nuisance. What’s worst, this threatens the very lives of each and everyone of us because it concerns food.
When will all these things stop? When will we wake up and muster the courage to stop these evil administration from pillaging our rice bowls? My God, this government threatens not only our lives, but the lives of our children, our families! My God, this things are sickening already.
Gising na po Pilipinas! Gising na po tayong lahat!

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