Desperate Housewife? I Beg To Disagree

by Adolfo Paglinawan

Gloria Arroyo is really a Doctor of Economics. She is so incorrigible, first Asian economist kuno she started buying the election to circulate the currency that was not even hers but the farmers'. Second, she is so incompetent that she cannot improve the economy, so she began doctoring economic statistics to provde cosmetics for her dwindling governance.

She is not even original. When Tony Meloto started proclaiming that through Gawad Kalinga the Philippines can be a first-world country, she also said the Philippines can be a first world country in twenty years. The caveat of course is ought to be the chief executive for all the years on the road to that Utopia.

Now she is again poised to copy President Bush's stimulus package by doling out money. And do you really believe she will give all of that to the poor? Pahinog tayong lahat. This woman is inventing all kinds of transactions because she is again raising money for her retirement in Muntinglupa. She knows she will eventually be donning the orange T-shirt (sorry walang orange jumpsuit sa pinas), so nagla-last minute fundraising na siya.

At talagang plagiarist! "Ahon" was first used by the late Marilen Dinglasan who launched after 1998 the "Ahon Bata Lansangan" project to assist Gloria when she was Vice President. That "Ahon" took care of streetchildren on a community basis. It was so successful in Manila that Marilen began raising funds to export the program to Cebu and other streechildren-stricken urban areas.

One of the donors was Mark Jimenez, who later became congressman of a Manila district and also incarcerated in the for violating US laws on campaign finance related to former President Clinton. Unfortunately, the P5 million Jimenez gave never got to that "Ahon". When verified later where the money went to, the account it was deposited to belong to "Miguel Arroyo", yazzzirrrreee the First Gentleman! That was the first time we started calling the First Couple, the "First Kotong".

Anyway when Gloria became President, the check became to hot to handle because Mark Jimenez (up to now) kept the original returned check with the incriminating markings at the back, so she appointed Marilen to the MTRCB, the official film censor of the country. Marilen got so busy with that, "Ahon" virtually decelerated.

Then Marilen discovered graft and corruption at the films board but the grafters outdrew her and instead she was the one who ended up with graft charges. Despite the fact that she was clearly conned and innocent, Gloria removed her unceremoniously. Marilen and Gloria were best friends and classmates since grade one. Because of this, she went into depression that was not too good for a cancer survivor that she eventually died, heartbroken on how Gloria treated her like trash.

(The thing happened to another classmate and best friend of theirs - Bing Rodrigo, who for a time acted as Gloria's Social Secretary. But when she exposed graft involving the first Gentleman and a telecom firm, Gloria also treated her like trash and dismissed her. She also eventually died.)

This woman, Gloria surely is a viper. Sure death awaits her collaborators because she stings them before they start talking. The closer you get the more lethal the venom applies.

Of course, after the Hyatt 10 left her cabinet, all that are left are bunch of scoundrels, liars or just plain hangers on. She has sent the deadly message for those who after truly seeing what she is, leaves her. The latest is of course Secretary Neri. Ever wondered why he cannot budge? Because dead men tell no tales. Her agenda is nothing but survival. for herself and her family. Not just political survival, but first and foremost, financial.

Desperate housewife? I beg to disagree. She is laughing at all of us, on her way to the bank!

I just hope that what eventually happened to the Romanovs of Russia does not repeat with the Arroyos of the Philippines. To all of you, you do not know what that means - Czar Nicolas and her entire family's last photo opportunity was before a firing squad.