Kapihan sa Manila quotable quotes
"Why do we allow hacienderos to rule our country always?"
"Hacienderos have been the bane of our country and the oppressors of the poor since the Spanish times. That is why the Land Reform Law and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law were passed by Congress to emancipate the Filipino farmer, but until now the hacenderos still want to rule the country."
"They have not even been able to run Hacienda Luisita properly, how can they run the whole Philippines with its numerous problems? The hacienda is at present beset with labor problems. It was exempted from distribution to the tenants as mandated by CARP during the term of President Corazon Aquino, Noynoy’s mother and Gibo’s aunt."
"Noynoy is banking on the assassination of his father and the recent death of his mother, does that qualify him as a good president?"
"But there is no mention of the role Noynoy’s grandfather, Benigno Aquino Sr., played during the Japanese Occupation. (Aquino Sr. was president of the Kalibapi, the pro-Japanese and the only political party allowed in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation.)"
"The best thing to happen to Noynoy was that both of his parents died early."
"The biggest mistake we have committed was to neglect the railroad and to depend on cargo trucks to ship produce from the producers to the consumers. Costly transportation is also the reason we have a serious squatting problem in the urban areas. Workers want to live close to their places of work to save on time and fares. But they don’t have to be squatters in urban areas if they can commute to their homes in the provinces through fast trains. Workers in Tokyo, Japan, for example, commute everyday to their homes as far away as the equivalent of Manila to Tarlac or Pangasinan and La Union because of the Bullet Train.”
"There used to be railroad tracks from the piers to the Tutuban terminal and, from there, to points north and south of Manila. Why not rehabilitate these tracks and transport cargo from the piers through the railroad so cargo trucks don’t have to add to the traffic congestion?"
"And that’s the reason for the traffic congestion in Metro Manila. Cargo trucks from the northern provinces going south of Manila have to pass through Metro Manila, even when they have nothing to do there, because there is no other way, and thus contribute to the traffic jams. With the railroad, cargo doesn’t have to pass through downtown Metro Manila."
"Another cause of traffic jams is that huge truck-trailers carrying container vans from the piers to their final destinations compete with downtown traffic. There used to be railroad tracks from the piers to the Tutuban terminal and, from there, to points north and south of Manila. Why not rehabilitate these tracks and transport cargo from the piers through the railroad so cargo trucks don’t have to add to the traffic congestion?"
"Hacienderos have been the bane of our country and the oppressors of the poor since the Spanish times. That is why the Land Reform Law and the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law were passed by Congress to emancipate the Filipino farmer, but until now the hacenderos still want to rule the country."
"They have not even been able to run Hacienda Luisita properly, how can they run the whole Philippines with its numerous problems? The hacienda is at present beset with labor problems. It was exempted from distribution to the tenants as mandated by CARP during the term of President Corazon Aquino, Noynoy’s mother and Gibo’s aunt."
"Noynoy is banking on the assassination of his father and the recent death of his mother, does that qualify him as a good president?"
"But there is no mention of the role Noynoy’s grandfather, Benigno Aquino Sr., played during the Japanese Occupation. (Aquino Sr. was president of the Kalibapi, the pro-Japanese and the only political party allowed in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation.)"
"The best thing to happen to Noynoy was that both of his parents died early."
"The biggest mistake we have committed was to neglect the railroad and to depend on cargo trucks to ship produce from the producers to the consumers. Costly transportation is also the reason we have a serious squatting problem in the urban areas. Workers want to live close to their places of work to save on time and fares. But they don’t have to be squatters in urban areas if they can commute to their homes in the provinces through fast trains. Workers in Tokyo, Japan, for example, commute everyday to their homes as far away as the equivalent of Manila to Tarlac or Pangasinan and La Union because of the Bullet Train.”
"There used to be railroad tracks from the piers to the Tutuban terminal and, from there, to points north and south of Manila. Why not rehabilitate these tracks and transport cargo from the piers through the railroad so cargo trucks don’t have to add to the traffic congestion?"
"And that’s the reason for the traffic congestion in Metro Manila. Cargo trucks from the northern provinces going south of Manila have to pass through Metro Manila, even when they have nothing to do there, because there is no other way, and thus contribute to the traffic jams. With the railroad, cargo doesn’t have to pass through downtown Metro Manila."
"Another cause of traffic jams is that huge truck-trailers carrying container vans from the piers to their final destinations compete with downtown traffic. There used to be railroad tracks from the piers to the Tutuban terminal and, from there, to points north and south of Manila. Why not rehabilitate these tracks and transport cargo from the piers through the railroad so cargo trucks don’t have to add to the traffic congestion?"