Adding Insult to Injury

Juan de la Cruz, the Filipino Everyman, is now awash in a sea of crises – from political crisis to crises in the prices of rice and other prime commodities to poverty. This sorry state of affairs is aggravated by recent developments – a kidnapping in Sulu, and a storm that resulted in a shipping tragedy. Amid all these, the Arroyo administration adding insult to the people’s injuries by releasing “subsidies” that are not even enough to last an average Filipino family through a day.

BY FLON FAURILLO
Bulatlat
Vol. VIII, No. 21, June 29-July 5, 2008

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