Economic justice: that's what da Filipins needs, and that is one heck of a national language it needs so bad, not any other.

ORDINARY CITIZEN'S NOTES. 27 JAN 2015. TUE.
Economic justice: that's what da Filipins needs, and that is one heck of a national language it needs so bad, not any other. 

WHEN A COUNTRY IS put up, erected for some kind of a greater good called the Summum Bonum, there is one thing clear here: that all the people must partake of the same goodness all the others are enjoying, like 'em Aquinos and Solimans and Binays and Roxases and Abads. 

The simple goal of nation-building is that that nation ought to guarantee that no man will live on the streets, that they have a bed to dream of the good life and enjoy it, that they have a job through which they could come together and celebrate what it means to live in a place where human dignity and self-respect are ingrained values. 

Not under Aquino's watch, the mother.

Not under Aquino's watch, the son. 

Not under Erap's watch, the plunderer who wants to run for president again in a declaration that is nothing but shamelessness. What does he think? That our Jericho march is one heck of a phantasm?

Not under Arroyo's watch, that fiefdom that is no better than her student's fiefdom. What social economics these two learned I do not know. What macroeconomics with social conscience they know is beyond imagining. 

Today, there is not any infrastructure for a conscience-informed economics in da Filipins. 

It is but a fair game of businessmen and cheats and plunderers and PPPs (think of the rails!) and their political partners. 

Da Filpins is a safari of goodness for those who are in power and let the powerless just stay on the streets, have some kind of a six-day training in a Nasugbu luxury resort so they learn what a room in a home means, and what a door locks means. 

Ah, Soliman and DSWD: YOU are the epitome of cruelty. 

Ronquillo of the Manila Times has summed all these dreams of justice and fairness and economics for the poor are all about: redistribution. 

Ah, but we all have been talking about these things a long time ago.

HON/