AFTER tomorrow, it will be a new year. Ilang tulog na lang. What is in store for us Filipinos? The past two years cannot be described as good years due to the raging pandemic. It was a double whammy. Sorry to say but a lot of taxpayers’ money lined up pockets of Digong’s minions. Money for the poor were snatched from their mouth. PhilHealth funds depleted. But there’s hope. Hope has no borders and it springs eternal. 2022 is an election year. Choose the right leaders, please.
Depending on who is saying it, the Duterte administration is a success or a failure. The Duterte diehards will say the Filipinos never had it so good. That he is the best president this country ever had. The antis said the former Davao City mayor failed miserably and that his administration was attended by so much killings and corruption. Enough of it. (Duterte will be history in July 1 of the new year).
What we want to see in 2022:
* That the veerus will vanish into thin air so that life will revert to what we really is normal, and not the ‘new normal’. That we shut our borders to check on Omicron.
* That fuel prices will stabilize and will revert to its pre pandemic level. Not parang spaghetting pababa at pataas ng pataas.
* That Filipino voters stop electing movie actors who are square pegs on round holes. (Thank God Willie Revillame made a good accounting of himself by not joining the senatorial race, unlike the ex-convict actor Robin Padilla.
* That our roads and highways will be upgraded. Example is the Angeles-San Fernando stretch of the MacArthur Highway. Bumpy all the way.
* That flyovers will be constructed on choke points. Not the type of the unfinished flyover in the Porac-Angeles intersection.
* That the Ombudsman will make a honest to goodness investigation on the Porac flyover which by this time already caused some accidents in the area aside from the daily bumper to bumper traffic situation.
* That the Philippine National Police (PNP) will purchase more patrol cars for use of the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) and be seen patrolling the highways.
* That people stop asking if there is a HPG organization in the PNP and seldom a patrol car is seen on principal roads in the country.
* That the Land Transportation Office (LTO) field more mobile checkpoints frequently in strategic areas in order to stop the mushrooming of colorum vehicles, tricycles with no license, kolong kolong and slow moving trucks and jeepneys that pollute the environment.
* That subdivisions, particularly those in Pampanga be considerate, employ licensed security guards and properly briefed on protocols, good manners and right conduct. Included are those guarding the casinos in Clark Freeport.
* That Clark Development Corporation can invite more serious foreign investors after this pandemic and an effective strategy will be adopted to save ailing companies inside the Freeport.
* That the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) will deepen its investigation on why suddenly the power bills of residential and commercial houses spiked so high.
* That our good Lord keep blessing the true public servants in government and punish the wicked and corrupt ones.
Anyway, Happy New Year!