Mahirap nang matumbasan ang karangalan at lahat na karangyaan sa isang boksengero gaya ni Manny Pacquiao. Hindi lamang pambihirang record ang kanyang accomplishments bagkus ito’y bahagi na ng kasaysayan na patuloy pang umuusad.
Dagdag na pinahanga ako ni Congressman Pacquiao sa kanyang matatag na paninindigan laban sa RH Bill. Isang baguhang mambabatas na ang tanging puhunan ay “boxing title belts” pero matatas na nakipag-debate sa mga beteranong kinatawan gaya ni Congressman Edcel Lagman.
Pero biglang gumuho ang aking pagtingin kay Pacquiao nang ito’y ‘hayagan’ na nagpagamit sa mga militantevat makakaliwang labor organizations sa usapin ng P125-wage increase.
Sang-ayon ako na itaas ang sweldo pero dapat i-akma ito sa tamang konteksto.
Maigting na pang-ekonomiyang krisis ang dinaranas ng ating bansa. Pinalala pa ito ng mga pandaig-digang kaganapan. Pero lalo itong inaagnas ng mga anay na gustong magpabagsak sa ating republika!
Maagang bahagi ng 1970s, kinilala ang Pilipinas bilang “booming tiger economy of Asia”. Pamantay tayo noon sa iba pang umuunlad na bansa. Subalit, ang pagsulong na ito tungo sa pag-unlad ay tahasang naudlot sa pagkatatag ng maoistang CPP-NPA.
Pinakita ng mga pag-aaral, na sa maagang bahagi pa lamang ng 1980s mahigit na 4,000 mga kumpanya at negosyo ang sumara dahil sa welga ng mga militanteng unyon. Dahil din dito, mahigit 1.7 trillion dollars ang nawala sa ating ekonomiya “direct and consequential investments”. Sa panahong nabanggit, inamin ng National Security Council na “2% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP)” ang nalulusaw dahil sa insurgency problem.
Resulta: milyon-milyon na mga Pilipino ang nawalan ng trabaho!
Sa kanayunan, hindi makakausad ang mga development projects dahil sa revolutionary taxation o ekstoryon ng mga teroristang NPA. Karamihan ngayon ng mga apektado ay damagsa sa mga urban centers (Manila, Cebu, Davao at iba pang mga lungsod) sa pag-asa na makahanap ng trabaho. Subalit – balintuna sa inaasahan, naging dagdag lamang sila sa bilang ng mga un-employed, under-employed, dagdag na iskwater at dagdag na kumplikasyon sa halos sasabog na, na lobo ng mga panlipunang suliranin!
Ang “pagbaha” ng mga unemployed at under-employed ang siyang dahilan sa paglaganap ng murang labor force. Ang dahilan: malinaw pa sa sikat ng haring araw ---TERORISMO!
Kaya, ang usapin sa pagpapataas ng sahod ay hindi mabibigyan ng sustainable solution sa pamamagitan ng paghihiyaw ng “P125 wage increase”! Habang ginagawan ng kaparaanan ang usaping ito, dapat tutukan ang pag-resolba sa pinakamatagal nang insurhensiya (42 taon) sa ating bansa.
Matoto sa mga aral ng kasaysayan, hindi na sasakay lamang sa mga maiinit na isyu upang “sumikat” pero tameme sa katotohanang ginagamit lamang kayo ng mga mapanlinlang na pwersang gustong i-knock-out ang ekonomiya upang tahasang masisira ang ating Republika! (kadre_porras@yahoo.com)
6.16.2011
39IBs thrust for the Greening Program
More or less 6,500 trees were planted in a 13-hectare land at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, Davao del Sur during the Provincial launching of the National Greening Program (NGP) last Friday, May 27, 2011. The activity was participated by ninety-seven (97) different government agencies including the 39th Infantry Battalion, religious, academe, private and business sectors from Davao del Sur.
The launching was spearheaded by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Region XI. It was highlighted by the ceremonial planting of trees within the three (3) designated planting sites located at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, Davao del Sur by no less than Cong. Marc Douglas Cagas IV and the different heads of office. Every participant was given atleast ten (10) rubber seedlings, among others, to be planted. It was followed by a short program were words of commitment from collaborators were heard.
“Dinhi sa Davao del Sur, dako-dako ang target for this year muabot sa 1,944 hectares, ug ang pinakadako ini mao ang atong Mt. Apo nga adunay 1,000 hectares na marked for development this year”, according to Mr. Glenn Adonis M. Rico, PENR officer. “All sectors of society ania karon dinhi kay ang counterpart sa katawhan mao ang pagpananum”, he added.
Inorder to further contribute in the greening effort and in accordance to the Eastern Mindanao Command directive, the 39th Infantry Battalion will establish its camp nursery. This nursery will keep and protect seedlings for the future tree planting activities of the battalion. Furthermore, a camp environmental officer will also be designated to ensure that the implementation of the project will be supervised and monitored. He will also be responsible for the wider dissemination of the greening program within the line companies. This way, the greening efforts will be brought even to far-flung barangays where most of the troops are stationed.
The 39th Infantry Battalion led by LtC Oliver R Artuz urges everybody to support the National Greening Program. He assured the battalions’ commitment to help in the protection and rehabilitation of the environment as he enjoined his elements to become active in the greening program. LtC Artuz is optimistic that through the collaborative efforts of everyone, we can contribute to a healthy and safe environment for the present and the next generations to come.
The National Greening Program, consolidates and harmonizes all greening efforts such as Upland Development Program, Luntiang Pilipinas, and similar initiatives of the government, civil society and the private sector. It is expounded under Executive Order 26 where it became one of the priority thrusts of the present administration to attain sustainable development for poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. This program targets to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares in community-based forest areas, protected areas, ancestral domains and other suitable lands such as schools, military reservations and urban areas for a period of six years starting 2011 until 2016.
The launching was spearheaded by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Region XI. It was highlighted by the ceremonial planting of trees within the three (3) designated planting sites located at Barangay Savoy, Matanao, Davao del Sur by no less than Cong. Marc Douglas Cagas IV and the different heads of office. Every participant was given atleast ten (10) rubber seedlings, among others, to be planted. It was followed by a short program were words of commitment from collaborators were heard.
“Dinhi sa Davao del Sur, dako-dako ang target for this year muabot sa 1,944 hectares, ug ang pinakadako ini mao ang atong Mt. Apo nga adunay 1,000 hectares na marked for development this year”, according to Mr. Glenn Adonis M. Rico, PENR officer. “All sectors of society ania karon dinhi kay ang counterpart sa katawhan mao ang pagpananum”, he added.
Inorder to further contribute in the greening effort and in accordance to the Eastern Mindanao Command directive, the 39th Infantry Battalion will establish its camp nursery. This nursery will keep and protect seedlings for the future tree planting activities of the battalion. Furthermore, a camp environmental officer will also be designated to ensure that the implementation of the project will be supervised and monitored. He will also be responsible for the wider dissemination of the greening program within the line companies. This way, the greening efforts will be brought even to far-flung barangays where most of the troops are stationed.
The 39th Infantry Battalion led by LtC Oliver R Artuz urges everybody to support the National Greening Program. He assured the battalions’ commitment to help in the protection and rehabilitation of the environment as he enjoined his elements to become active in the greening program. LtC Artuz is optimistic that through the collaborative efforts of everyone, we can contribute to a healthy and safe environment for the present and the next generations to come.
The National Greening Program, consolidates and harmonizes all greening efforts such as Upland Development Program, Luntiang Pilipinas, and similar initiatives of the government, civil society and the private sector. It is expounded under Executive Order 26 where it became one of the priority thrusts of the present administration to attain sustainable development for poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. This program targets to plant 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares in community-based forest areas, protected areas, ancestral domains and other suitable lands such as schools, military reservations and urban areas for a period of six years starting 2011 until 2016.
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