It's almost 2am!

What the?!!!

In the wake of Typhoon Ondoy, the Philippine government is asking for foreign aid to help those affected by the floods in Metro Manila.

How dare them!

Maybe they have forgotten the millions, nay billions, of pesos they have accumulated, nay stole, during the past years. If they can sell their houses in California and New York (whose down payments and amortization come from the wallets of the same people they "want to help"), they don't NEED foreign aid.

Maybe if they reimburse from their own pockets the numerous international trips and countless expensive dinners they had, it would be enough to feed more than 5,000 families.

I'm sorry, I feel for the Ondoy victims, and I am grateful that a lot of people are helping, but this is a separate issue. Aside from the fact that the NDCC played a bad role in the rescue operations (whatever happened to Disaster Coordination?), they now have the nerve to ask foreign governments to ask for international aid.

250 people (official count, but I doubt the accuracy) are dead now. This is not the first time that this has happened to the Philippines. We very well know that our country is in the path of typhoons. This is not an "act of God". In the first place, there should have been precautions put up for this sort of calamities.

And then the government asks for financial aid?!! What the?!!!

Labels: financial aid, foreign aid, ondoy, Philippine government

posted by Rom / Rub according to the barista @ 10:37 AM