Sabado, Disyembre 11, 2021

Less Moneyed Mayorship Bet uses Bluff to Win Election


 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

I quipped to Political Operator-1 of an incumbent rich town’s mayor that in the 2019 election Operator-2 told me he discouraged his patron’s mayorship candidate to proceed in the vote buying of the electorates at P800 each in the eve of the May 13, 2019 election.

“Sinabihan ko na si Mayor na huwag na ilabas ang P800 kasi ang kalaban namimili ng P2,000 per voter,” I quoted what Operator-2 disclosed to me to Operator -1-  a retired cop.

“Talaga bang nagpabaha si Mayor ninyo ng pera sa bayan ninyo?” I posed.

He said the losing mayor spent P5,000 each voter in the one month’s span before the voters cast their ballots in the precinct.

MASSIVE VOTE BUYING. The customary vote buying in the Philippines that runs now to thousands of pesos per gullible and vulnerable voter where the less intelligent but moneyed candidate wins against the financially deprived but brainy rival.

Tinadtad (made installments) nila ang P5,000. Meron pa diyan ibinigay P2,000 kada botante. Mas maraming pera si ex- mayor kaysa kay mayor noong election,” he stressed to me in Tagalog.

When I bumped into him middle of this year, the losing mayor told me that they vote buy earlier because he and his father were afraid that his rival who had connection with the police provincial director could box in the corner his bagmen - who shell-out monies to voters as ingratiation for him and his family to win – in the eve of the election. 

 In Pangasinan province they called it “Pakurong” read in countless English words (Damn, just learned the Pangalatok, er, Pangasinan language is superior in the brevity game to English) as discreet shelling out of sums to the houses of voters or in a specific venue.

“Magkano ang bilihan ng boto sa bayan ninyo at kayo ay natalo?”.

“Dalawang libo isang linggo bago mag eleksyon,” he answered

Bakit isang linggo bago mag eleksiyon. Dapat sa eve ng eleksyon kayo namumudmod ng pera?” I added.

His fear was reminiscent of a former Pangasinan PD  - a Colonel – who emphatically ordered his men to disable a city mayor and his bagmen not to buy votes that allow the other rival candidate to vote buy and win the election.

The aggressiveness of the PD, my source said on conditioned of anonymity, was a quid pro quo to the other rival that in case the patron candidate wins the cop get his share of the monthly jueteng (illegal number game) ingreso from the gambling lord to the city.

Bluffed by Menacing Looking Motorcycle Men

Sabi ni ex-Mayor natakot daw sila kasama ang mga supporters nila dahil may mga umiikot sa mga bara-barangay na naka motor (motorcycles) naka black jacket. Sabi ni ex-Mayor mga goons daw ni Mayor iyon,” I told Operator -1.

The ex –cop laughed. He said they were not goons and hit men as the rival pictured them in the media.  It was a successful bluff that psyched out their wits.

“Mga motorcycle group iyon ni rentahan namin para bumu-o ng takot sa isip ng mga kalaban”.

Godzak and Godzilla! So the P2,000 per voter – where the ex - cop and company ferried those boxes of P1,000 bills in cigarette boxes from Lingayen in  the day before the election - and the imagined fear created by the incumbent mayor and his supporters have been a bluff, chutzpah, and sly that saw the long reign streaked of the ex-mayor and his father - another ex-mayor - halted in a competitive 2019 poll?

I remembered a city where each of the two mayorship candidate spent P333,659,200 average as I computed (Geez, to a post that gives P150, 000 monthly for three years) to buy the favor of the mostly greedy vote for sale voters probably in Region-1.

In the eve of the May 2019 election, sports utility vehicles (SUVs) roamed noisily the highways and streets of the city and the villages crowing their huge posters marked N.B.I pasted on the side of their car.

Was it an abbreviation of the National Bureau of Investigation or NBluff Ikaw?

I learned later it was the creation of the astute mayorship bet and his advisers composed of incumbent and retired generals to deter his rival – a multi-millionaire – in sowing the dough to the voters who have been queuing the gate of a university where the distribution of the P2,500 for each of the excited voters would ensue.

The bag men of the sly mayorship bet - who distributed P2,000 for each of the crowd in the wee hour escaped hair-thin from the jaw clamping looming defeat – told them to wait as they would pick up the sacks of monies – donated allegedly by Filipino Chinese traders who hated the then incumbent hizzoner - and would add another P1,000 to make the purchase of their “sacred” Right of Suffrage at P3,000.

Result: The incumbent mayor basking on the victory - backed up by a scientific poll that she would win in a closed contest -  lost by a nip and tuck votes.

It happened because voters would vote for the one who shelled out the highest amount – P3,000 versus P2,500.

  A seasoned mayor in the Third Congressional District told me years ago: Iyong mga tubo (pipe) ng gripo (faucet), kahoy (lumber) yero (galvanized iron sheets)  na pinamimigay  at mga medical mission na milyon year or years before the election, wala iyan. Pag nagbigay ang kalaban ng P700 kada botante sa gabi bago mag eleksiyon at ang rival P500 lang, talo ang P500 kahit na nag bigay siya noong mga gamit na sinabi ko at nag medical mission pa siya.

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Gobierno Que Se Merece

(The Gov't that We Deserved)

By Mortz C. Ortigoza
With those clowns in the Senate and House of Thieves and those running for the seat of the Commander -in-Thief, er, Chief and the Senate like Robin Padilla, Jojo Binay, Jinggoy and JV Estrada, and Monsour del Rosario- a martial art expert sanamagan!- who are in the Top 24 of the Senate bets as polled lately by SWS, I shuddered HolyJesusMary&Joseph!
Was it President Manuel Quezon - who rabble roused in the Senate of the Commonwealth Government (an OJT government given to us by our White Master the Yanks) in the 1930s - or was it U.S President Abraham Lincoln who said?:
Photo is an internet grabbed.



"Un pueblo obtiene solo el tipo de gobierno que se merece (A people get only the kind of government that they deserve)".
Below are the Top 24 Senate Candidates who would win the election of the 12 Senate seats if it was held on October 20 to 23, 2021. It was a Strat Base ADR commissioned polls by the Social Weather Station (SWS):
1) Raffy Tulfo with 60%,; 2) Former Senator Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero with 51%; 3) Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano with 50%; 4) Antique Rep. Loren Legarda with 45%; 5) Re-electionist Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri with 44%.; 6-7) Former Vice President Jejomar Binay and former Public Works Secretary Mark Villar with 40% each: 😎 Re-electionist Senator Risa Hontiveros with 36%,; 9) Former Senator Jinggoy Estrada with 33%; 10) Actor Robin Padilla with 29%; 11) Broadcaster Noli De Castro with 28% ; 12) Reelectionist Sen. Joel Villanueva with 27%.
Outside the Magic 12 are the following: 13) and 14) Former
Senator JV Ejercito and Re-electionist Sen. Richard Gordon with 26% each; 15) Re-Electionist Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian with 25%,; 16) Actor and former Quezon City mayor Herbert Bautista with 16% ; 17) Former Senator Gregorio Honasan with 23%.; 18) Former Senator Sonny Trillanes (21%); 19) Re-electionist Sen. Leila De Lima (11%); 20) Human Rights Lawyer Chel Diokno (10%); 21) Former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro (9%); 22 and 23) Former Congressmen Neri Colmenares and Monsour Del Rosario (7% each) and; 24) Former Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol (6%).

Paano Magnakaw at Ma-Bunkrupt ang mga Pulitiko

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 Noong October 1 to 8, 2022 ay filing ng certificate of candidacy (CoC) ng mga tatakbo para sa Pangulo ng Pilipinas, Senador, Kongressman, Gobernador, Mayor, at mga miyembro ng Sangguniang Bayan, Panlungsod, at Lalawigan.

Masaya na naman ang sambayanang Pilipino lalo na ang mga bobotantes at voters- for- sale. Makakatangap na naman sila ng datung na galing sa mga galante at kunwaring galit sa pera na mga kandidato.

Dito sa lungsod namin, noong tumakbo ang dalawang kandidatong mayors na mga big time businessmen, isang buwan bago mag May 13, 2019 election estimate ko mga tag P4,000 rin bawat isa sa kanila ang pinamudmud sa karamihan sa mahigit 119, 164 voters (November 2018 Comelec’s data) ng lungsod.

Mga magkano iyon? Tag P333,659,200 sila kung sumahin natin ang 70 percent of 83,415 voters’ na botante na binili. Magkano ang suweldo monthly ng incumbent City Mayor? Nakakalungkot na more or less P150,000 monthly.

Photo is grabbed by this blog from the internet

 

Nakakalulang P333,659,200 kontra sa P5,850,000 sa tatlong taong kasama na ang 13th months pay serbisyo sa masa! Anyari?

Sa dami ng pera na bumaha sa mga botante na parang dilubyo, nalimas lahat ng stocks at benta ng Jollibee, McDonald, Chowking, 7-11. Ang hindi lang naubos ang Filet-O-Fish ng McDo kasi French sounding ang hamburger na isda ang palaman. Natakot ang mga taga malayong barangays at squatters baka mag-ta-e sila sa mala imported na pagkain na hindi pa nila natikman sa tanang buhay nila hahaha!

Pati flat screen TV at supply ng shabu ayon sa intel ng pulisya ay nalimas din sa malang unos na perang dumating.

“Anlaki naman ng bilihan ng boto sa inyo! Noong ako tumakbo tag P200 lang ang bili namin ng boto,” ani ng isang batang Mayor sa Pangasinan noong bumisita ako sa opisina niya at napag usapan namin ang 2022 Election.

Aniya iyong katabing siyudad nilang malaki tag P300 lang kada isa ng botante ang bilihan.

Mortz, kung gusto mong manalo sa reelection mo, mangurakot ka na pagkaupo mo para maka ipon ka para manalo ka uli,” ika sa akin ng isa ring Mayor sa Central Pangasinan habang nagkakape kami.

Ani niya, galing ang pera nila sa share as elective politicians sa jueteng (illegal number games), S.O.P o cut sa mga infrastructure projects na galing sa 20 percent development fund ng annual budget ng local government unit, at iba pa gaya ng mga suweldo ng mga ghost workers.

(Read my political blog about the details how How Mayor, Guv, Solon Steal to Fund Their Election)

Iyong Tiyo ng misis ko sa Mangaldan noong matapos ang pinakamahabang term niya nagkawindang windang ang buhay ng pamilya, pati ancestral home na isanla dahil sa reelection niya,” ika ni Bong na manager ng isang napakalaking negosyo sa Urdaneta City.

Iyong pamangkin ng mother-in-law ko sa Calasiao, matagal naging mayor. Pero ayon lumalakad sa kalsada nanghihingi ng abuloy sa mga kakilala. Bukod sa adik sa sabung sabi nila na bunkrupt sa kaka-takbo sa pagka Alkalde,” sagot ko naman.

Iyong ibang mayor bukod sa pangungurakot, ginamit ang posisyon para makapag patayo ng mga gas stations, memorial parks, iyong iba sinusunog pa ang palengke para makapag loan ng hundreds of millions of pesos kung saan kukuha sila ng cut sa contractors para pambili uli ng boto sa re-election.

Bad talaga maging pulitiko. Tama iyong sabi ni Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2021 (On The Job: The Missing 8) John Arcilla:

"Mas naiintindihan ko pa at mapapatawad iyong mga mahihirap na napilitan magnakaw dahil sa gutom at kagipitan kaysa doon sa mga taong may mataas na pinag-aralan at katungkulan pero nagnanakaw sa bayan."
"Botante ka? Iligtas mo ang bayan natin. Hindi po ako kandidato, Nagpapaalala lang."

Tama ba si Arcilla sa sinabi niya?

Siya iyong lead actor sa pelikulang Antonio Luna na isinabuhay ang Put*ng Ina na pakikibaka ni Heneral Luna laban sa masasama.

“Goyong (General Emilio Aguinaldo), putang ina mo, tignan mo ginawa mo sa kanya!” ani ni Luna sa naging First President ng Pinas na nakikipag collaborate - gaya ng mga Aquinos ng Tarlac at Laurels ng Batangas sa Hapon - sa mga Amerkanong mananakop.

(Read my blog/column on My critique on the film "Heneral Luna")

Put*ng ina talaga itong mga pulitiko. Buti na lang iyong iba gaya sa sinabi ko sa itaas ng article na ito nakakarma dahil mga kawatan sila hahaha.

 

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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

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Guvs, Mayors Elated for their Next Year’s Big Budget


DUE TO SC MANDANAS RULING


By Mortz C. Ortigoza

Mayors and governors in the Philippines are elated these days of the more than fifty percent hike next year of their internal revenue allotment (IRA) due to the Mandanas Ruling.

“My town would surely benefit from this budget increase because my first term would end,” Pangasinan’s capital town Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil told this newspaper about the spike of the first class town’s IRA from the national government.

The Mandanas Ruling by the Supreme Court in 2018 and confirmed with finality in 2019 dictated that the IRA of the local government units (LGU) in towns and provinces are programmed to increase by 55 percent in the 2022 national budget, reaching Php1.08 trillion or 4.8 percent of the country’s gross domestic product compared to 3.5 percent of GDP in 2021.

It will bode well for the province of Cotabato,” the central Mindanao’s province Administrator Efren Pinol told this writer when they met recently in Rosales, Pangasinan.

MANDANAS RULING BENEFICIARIES (from left photo clockwise) Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino, III, Cotabato Governor Nancy Catamco, and Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil.

Governor Nancy Catamco- a former nine year’s congresswoman-is the province’s chief executive.

Aguilar, Pangasinan Mayor Roldan Sagles said that his third class town will tremendously benefit because of the Mandanas Doctrine especially the expansion of the twenty percent (20%) development fund where he could build more infrastructure projects next year.

Despite the rustic municipality’s limited budget based on the absence of the Supreme Court’s ruling, he procured in his more than two years’ stint new dump truck, new firetruck, new ambulance, and constructed new municipal warehouse, and solar street lights, P30 million evacuation center in Barangay Buer, newly designed plaza, more farm to market roads, Corona Virus Disease-19 building, and distribution late this year of 16 Mitsubishi utility vans to each of the 16 barangays.

I could enjoy it because my (first) term will end on June next year,” he said about the stout annual budget next year of the town he and his department heads deliberate this year.

According to Bataoil’s public information officer Mae Viray-Rueda, the town has a present P326 million annual budget.

P256 million internal revenue allotment and P70 million in local tax collection,” she said.

If that budget will be appropriated next year, the P256 million will be padded by P140.8 (55 percent as dictated by Mandanas Ruling) or P396.8 from the IRA plus the P70 million local revenues like the business and real property taxes or a total of P466.8 million a year.

It will be bigger if it is the IRA of the billions of pesos annual budgeted LGU of the province of Pangasinan under Governor Amado Espino, III and the P500 million IRA’s of the P1 billion a year’s Dagupan City under Mayor Brian Lim.

The Mandanas Doctrine clarifies that the share from the IRA of the LGUs does not exclude other national taxes like customs duties.  The filing of the case in the Supreme Court was the national government exclusion in the introduction of the Local Government Code in 1991 of other national taxes like customs duties from the base for determining the just share of the LGUs.

The high tribunal said it contravened the express constitutional edict in Section 6, Article X (1) of the 1987 Constitution.

Just look how a fourth class town Basista, Pangasinan 2022 proposed annual budget ballooned to P167, 673, 690.

Mayor JR Resuello told Northern Watch Newspaper that his municipality’s internal revenue allotments in years 2021 and 2022 are P109,558,591.00 and P156,673,690.00, respectively.

The table below shows how the Resuelo Administration sourced out his funds from the national and the local taxes to serve his minuscule 37, 679 populated town (PSA 2020):


Aguilar Mayor Sagles disclosed to this writer that its proposed year 2022 budget is P229, 812, 015 - an additional of almost P70 million from this year’s budget of P160, 178, 604.

Our internal revenue allotment in 2021 is P160, 178,604.00 while it will increase to P222, 098,015.00 next year. Our local taxes in 2021 is P6, 917,000.00 our estimated local taxes in 2022 will be P7, 714, 000.00,” he said.

Meanwhile, unlike other towns that buttressed their business taxes at the expense of the financial standing of their constituents, Bataoil said he empathized with the people of Lingayen as they reel on the ravaged being done by the pandemic’s Corona Virus Disease-19.

The people’s willingness to pay iyan ang importante sa akin. Pero sa ngayon kung baga the people’s trust and confidence to the local government”.

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16-Yr Old Pokpok, Junkie Pinoy BF, and an Ugly American

By Mortz C. Ortigoza


Alma, 17, - not her real name – came recently to the house with her one year old son bore to her by an old ugly American client when she was a prostitute in Angeles City.

“We mull to give the kid for adoption for a better future,” she told me insinuating thousands of pesos’ financial consideration as quid pro quo.

“Merkano ba talaga ito, bakit pango at malaki ang butas ng ilong (Is this baby American? Why his nose flat ang has huge holes?” my house errand boy Rey “Giting” Cajurao incredibly asked her curiously.

“Pangit kasi iyong ama kamukha ni Panchito at pango din ang ilong (the father of the boy looked like (Comedian) Panchito and got a flat nose),” Alma’s BF auntie Baby – a scavenger - butted in.
Alma told me life nowadays is hard as she earns only a pittance being a cobradores (agent) of jueteng (illegal number’s game) in Dagupan City.
YOUNG PROSTITUTES in the Philippines. They can be seen on the red light districts in Ermita in Manila City, Poblacion in Makati City, and in Angeles City in Pampanga province. (Photo credit: Get Real Post)


Her common law partner Arnel, 19, (not his real name) was jailed ‘because of palit ulo (exchanged for a kin who should be arrested by cops because of peddling narcotics – a non bailable crime in the Philippines).

When I asked our Cebuana labandera (laundry woman) Gina – a retired guest relation officer or known for the Pinoys as G.R.O (she told me the abbreviation’s G.R.O in Bisaya is Gunitan Ray O*en hahaha! Geez I digressed.) in some bars in the city - the story of Alma why at her young age she became a whore, she said that they came from the same place – a slum area.

“Sumama siya sa sister ko last year sa Angeles City kasama iyong mister niya na matanda sa kanya. Doon nag pokpok siya (She went last year with my sister to Angeles with her boy friend who is older than her there she became a prostitute)”.

The lived in partner Dado impregnated her with a second child – several months old now.

“How they lived there, did they stay with your sister?” I posed my question in the vernacular.

“Hindi. Nag renta sila ng apartment (They stayed in a rented apartment)”.

“Aba matibay. Silang dalawa ang may trabaho? (Wow, both of them have jobs there?)”

Gina told me that Alma sold her young 16 year old body to foreigners – mostly retired Caucasian in that Central Luzon City known for its famous, er, infamous red light districts while the husband stayed at home.

“Iyong mister ang nag uutos na mag pokpok siya (the husband goaded her to sell her body to male clients),” she disclosed to me.

The husband badgered the wife to sell herself to two to three foreigners a day for sex while her earning they used to buy shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride).

“Oh, that’s why I saw her with some broken teeth,” I told Gina as my observation to people whose teeth became brittle by regularly sipping the hot smoke through a straw from the tin foil or silver spoon where the meth is cooked by a lighter.

Gina said that Alma’s lifestyle changed when she became pregnant with the Yank’s baby and went home to the squatter area in the Bangus City.

“Her lived in partner was arrested and jailed at the BJMP (Bureau of Jail Management and Penology) for the “palit-ulo” in selling illegal drugs and she did not go back to Angeles to continue her occupation,” Gina said.

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Money Pours this Early to the Kapitans

 

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 Barangay Kapitans (village chiefs) of a province in Northern Luzon are ecstatic these days because manna (id est: monies) from heaven started to shower them more than eight months before the May 9, 2022 election.

Ang bigayan doon sa kabila limang libo kada Kapitan (The money given to the other group was P5,000 per Kapitan),” a village chief – used to be called tenyente del barrio in the 1960s – told fellow barangay chairmen.

Wala iyan, doon sa isang bayan 52 out of 80 Kapitans nakatangap ng tig do-dose’ mil (That’s a pittance. In the other town each of the 52 of the 80 village chiefs received twelve thousand pesos),” another Kap butted in.

My source on conditioned of anonymity said the congressional, governorship, and vice governorship bets chipped in P5,000, P5,000, and P2,000 respectively for each of the barangay chairmen.

Geez, these money hungry village chiefs will be belting the Pinoys’ nursery song’s “I have to hands the left and the right….”as they exploit the extra ordinary generosity of politicos who ingratiate to them to get the votes of their constituents.


This phenomenon was just like the mayor in a central Pangasinan town who  told me about his barangay captains who were recipients of the generosity of a high government official.

He said in their first, second, and third visits each of them were given P1,000, P2,000, and P3,000, respectively.

Pinatawag ako ng kalaban, nagtatanong bakit lagi namamasyal iyong mga Kapitan ko sa rival nila, ayon sinabihan ako na e meeting sila para mabigyan ng tag di-diez mil (P10,000) kada isa”.

The amiable seasoned mayor, who was once an alleged bag man of jueteng (illegal number's game), told me he hosted a drinking spree for the Kaps and when he distributed the envelop to each of them all their eyes popped out when they start counting the P1,000 bills inside: Damn, they could not believe the rival of the public figure could be more generous.

Tuwang tuwa sila hindi nila akalain na ang pagpunta-punta nila sa kabila ay napalitan ng mas malaking halaga. Marakep ya (This is good)," he said in Pangasinan.

Mag lalagaring Hapon iyang mga Kapitan ninyo Mayor,” I quipped by comparing them to those voters and media men for sale to the highest bidder.

The Mayor even told me that it is the reality of Philippines’ Politics that a person loyalty’s depend on the gold.

***

Let’s go back to those politicians I mentioned who threw away five thousand and twelve thousand pesos like candies to grateful Kapitanes.

With P12, 000 to each Kap does it means victory for the givers are already certain?

Nope!

These village heads are only minuscule in numbers compared to the hundreds of thousands of voters – the real McCoys - who will vote for the candidates that could give them more dough.

Most Filipino voters nowadays are not only stupid, gullible, but vulnerable to succumb to the highest bidder.

The one with the hundreds of millions of pesos for the congressional derby and the billion of pesos for the governorship's tussle win the election. They are the sine qua non and the  raison d'être of the campaign on every election in this province. 

This unless these candidates have damaging issues against the incumbent or life shaking issues - like then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte had against President Noynoy Aquino and his fair haired boy Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas.

Aquino and Roxas in solving the deteriorating narc problems in the country saw them lost big time the 2019 election.

A candidate berefts of this amount and earth moving issues is just wasting his time, efforts, and money. His attempt to that government office that pays P182, 191 and P268, 121 a month for the governorship and congressional posts, respectively, is a practice in futility.

***


A shrewd governorship candidate years ago just watch on the sideline his billionaire opponent spent hundreds of millions of pesos doing charitable works like medical missions and pay rolled majority of the mayors and vice mayors in the province, media men, leaders, and others but found himself losing the polls a week before the D-Day where people went to the precincts and exercised their Rights of Suffrage.
Why? His wily opponent counter attacked – just like what Joseph Stalin had done when routed Adolf Hitler - with his huge campaign chests and won the tussle.
It was a chess match where cerebral not only matters but wherewithal - that gave the tactician's hundreds of thousands of led votes to his enemy who could not fathom what son of a gun befell him.

What I mentioned in the last part of the above paragraph was astuteness at its highest.


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MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA

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I am a twenty years seasoned Op-Ed Political Writer in various newspapers and Blogger exposing government corruptions, public officials's idiocy and hypocrisies, and analyzing local and international issues. I have a master’s degree in Public Administration and professional government eligibility. I taught for a decade Political Science and Economics in universities in Metro Manila and cities of Urdaneta, Pangasinan and Dagupan. Follow me on Twitter @totoMortz or email me at totomortz@yahoo.com.