When you go over your newspaper today,
you will find this VERY DEPRESSING revelation:
“As
of October 2011, there are 5.49 million working children aged five to 17. More
than 55.1 percent or 3.02 million were counted as child labor while 2.99
million are exposed to hazardous form of child labor,” according to Labor
Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz.
Adding insult to injury, YOU WON’T FIND
any specific measure being done by the Aquino Administration to combat this,
either when they assumed power or until last year.
As in NOTHING. Two of the websites you can check out are
those of the Phil. Star and the
Inquirer.
Baldoz said anti-child labor programs have been implemented
since 1995 and “we have never stopped doing so.”
But she DID NOT CITE EVEN ONE PROGRAM,
location or beneficiary (ies) of whatever has been done, if any, by the Aquino
Government in the two years of its reign.
Baldoz said the Aquino Administration has
started with an initial 80 poor barangays where “we intend to have zero child
labor by the end of the year” But she did not name even one barangay and its
location, not one detail whatsoever of what was supposedly started.
At kung hindi ba naman panibagong
PAGYAYABANG na naman ito, mga kababayan:
Baldoz said the Aquino Government’s goal
is to reduce child labor in the country by 75 percent in four years.
Let’s do a little math, boys and girls.
Four years is 1,408 days. With 3.02
million child laborers, 75 percent of that would be roughly 2,250,000.
If you divide 2,250,000 by 1,408, the
result is more than 1,500. That means
they will have to free MORE THAN 1,500 KIDS DAILY from child labor to achieve
their goal.
And yet, Baldoz said they only have an
initial 80 barangays, out of the MORE THAN 42,000 NATIONWIDE, to begin with.
Two years into the Pnoy presidency and just 80 barangays.
For the sake of the child laborers, I
sure hope Baldoz can pull off a miracle.
But one thing I’ll tell you, guys, A
COMPREHENSIVE AUDIT of Labor department funds on
child labor eradication is in
order.
As soon as possible, and I mean every letter of it.
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From our friends:
TINGNAN NATIN KUNG SINO ANG
TALAGANG MAKA-MAHIRAP
JOMEL ACE ESPERANCILLA
Basahin n’yo ito! At sabihin nyo ngayon kung
sino maka-mahirap! Dapat kang suportahan, Kuya Boyet! Isa kang tunay na mandirigma
ng rule of law! Mabuhay ka!
JIMMY PRESTO
The oligarchs are never going to be pro-poor!
Oligarchs are always pro-control.
PRIMO CRISOSTOMO of Farmville , Virginia , USA
Wala sa kanila.Kasi, sila mism ang
nagpapahirap sa atin.
GRACE GO of Manila
Kukurakutin lang ang interest niyan o kung
hindi, papalitan ng peso ang dollar na yan para maitago na ang $1 billion.
ISABEL JUICO
Ang mahirap rin.. di mo aasahan si Abnoy and
cohorts. Busy sila paggawa ng pera, walang panahon sa bayan.
MARIA GILDA VELOSO
Pambayad sa mga biased MEDIA
ANONYMOUS
May mayabang.. Madaldal.. INUTIL ..Retarded.. Up
to when are we to tolerate the destruction of our democracy? This is bypassing
checks and balances and turning them into SUPREME EXECUTIVE POWER!
OK LANG TUMULONG, KASUMPA-SUMPA ANG MAGYABANG!
KENNY
Iba-iba talaga tayo ng reaction tungkol sa
napabalitang pagpapahiram ng $1 bilyon ng ating gobyerno sa IMF o International
Monetary Fund. Kung magpahiram tayo ng pera sa IMF, may masama ba doon? Siguro
naman meron ding mga kasunduan yan na hindi naman tayo madedehado, gaya sana
ANONYMOUS
PNoy, wala ka na bang matinontg pag-iisip? Tingnan
mo ang kakulangan ng classrooms, ng mga gamit, mga sira-sirang kalsada. Ang
palagiang brownout, ang malawakang deforestations, ang pagkasira ng natural
resources sa mining industry. Umaksiyon ka naman. Puro ka dada. Kayong mga
advisers, huwag ayon ng ayon sa presidenteng walang nagagawa.
WHAT’S SCARY ABOUT THE $1-B LOAN TO IMF IS …
TOOTS SYLED
Sobra kasing yabang nitong si Penoy.
EDMUND VALEN
Boyet, you are right. And to think that most
of the dollars we have come from OFW remittances.
AMELITA RASCA
That’s so bloody sad.
CATHERINE LOPEZ of Manila
Mayabang, wala namang ipagyayabang!
ON SEN. PANFILO LACSON
DDD
Lacson would be a real Pnoy version of Himmler.30
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