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Thursday, March 13, 2003
Editorial: Lip service
A barking dog does not bite.
At least when it pertains, as it does, to our leaders who talk on and on in rhetoric without meaning, of course, to make their words flesh. And this may be the case with the legislators in the towns and cities throughout Negros Oriental.
The Vice Mayors' League of the Philippines-Negros Oriental is no exception. It is also into putting in a resolution its strong opposition against the controversial Power Purchased Adjustment (PPA) rammed on the people's throat by powers-that-be for their own profit.
Now it is asking GMA to scrap the PPA as if the President can do so much as lift a finger to abide by the request.
Government leaders, like those charged with securing the country's energy resources, do not understand petty requests. All they understand is force or the show of force to unplug their ears and open their eyes to reality. Again, they do not understand reality, the reality of people, poor people buckling under the burden of high electricity charges.
They are unlike the leaders of that small island province of Siquijor who have taken their protests to the street and led by no other than their governor and the church.
It is a show of united support that may not fall on deaf ears.
These cannot be said of the leaders of Negros Oriental. After all, they are only a good example of what some of those officials of the bureaucracy who boast of performance and achievements in doctored reports.
Indeed, local leaders here have passed countless resolutions urging Malacanang, the National Power Corporation and senators to help scrap PPA. That was moons ago. Now, where has that brought them. Nowhere. Every one continues to wonder, to live in the dark.
Had there been a united effort or a collective campaign to pressure Malacaņang to scrap that erroneous charge, something could have been done about PPA.
But as said before the province's leaders, including those in towns and cities are too pre-occupied on matters that do not directly affect people's lives.
So we might just as well say good-bye to those countless anti-PPA resolutions. After all they will only be additions to the piles of complaint gathering dust in whatever office responsible for them. |
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