i don’t care what others say. i continually come here to read what you have to say about things including politics because i respect your opinion.

I don’t think that you are a communist, or you’ll ever be a communist. Lol.

Anyway, we share the same sentiments about this $20,000.00 dinner. I mean, given that Tita Cory just died and given the “real” state of our country, they should have at least refrained from having dinner in such a posh and lavish restaurant like Le Cirque. I know to myself that even if I bust my butt working in a BPO for ages, I won’t be able to have even a glass of water in that kind of restaurant. I pay my tax religiously and it hurts my pocket to know that there are people in the government who spends money (I bet their pork barrel) on outrageously expensive restaurant, gas guzzler SUVs, foreign travels and some crazy expensive bags like LV.

I know for a fact that some of the government officials are rich because of their ancestral wealth. However, just like what you have said, there’s a much higher standard set by the society for them since they are duly elected or appointed by whoever gave them whatever position they have in the government.

I don’t understand why on earth they had to have dinner in that posh place called Le Cirque. The name itself has the word “expensive” written all over it. I can feel chills in the spine just by the thought of them eating an order of caviar that costs $1,500 and drinking a bottle of wine that costs around $500 per bottle just simply because they are celebrating a “personal occasion” wherein people here in Manila is just drinking Gran Matador which is roughly around P60 per bottle and having “tunaskyflakes” as their “pulutan”. I know that it’s outside the question as to how the “normal” people here in Manila spend their time celabrating a special occasion. What I am trying to say is that those government officials who had dinner at Le Cirque better had a great time because if I am gonna hear even a single person from that entourage who will say that the food is crappy, I will be hitting that person right smack in the face with my knuckles.

And come on, who the hell in the right mind would treat out a group of 30 at that type of restaurant?! I bet, even Jaime Zobel de Ayala wouldn’t do that. Lol.

Anyway, I salute you MarketMan! :D

This refusal to apologize is even more upsetting – ELECTED PUBLIC SERVANTS people !!! , your employers are demanding an explanation and you choose to ignore it? Pwede ba iyan? It just drives me crazy how and what politicians get away with here.

this is the reason why i miss genuine public affairs shows (at them moment i can only recall randy david’s public forum, debate with mare and pare- when it was still about issues, and maybe dong puno’s points of view- when dong puno still seemed decent), which discuss current and critical issues of the day. free tv has dedicated most of its programs to entertainment. even prime-time newscasts main focus is info-tainment. there isn’t much intelligent discussion on free tv to help the people make sense of what’s happening. just a lot of useless sound-bytes.

“GMA will practice self quarantine after her trip” LOLOLOLOL

the truth is hard to fathom especially if you lurk in the shadows of what is simply right.

Get over yourselves, paid hacks, we aren’t stupid over here