By Robert B. Roque, Jr.
The President’s son, Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Sandro Marcos, gives his insight on the peso depreciating to its lowest. He says: “I would like to make one thing clear… the peso is not weak because the peso is weak. The peso is weak because the dollar is strong.”
Whew! I’m glad he made that clear.
That quote of the day was brought to you by the presidential son, who earned his master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017.
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Talking about the apple not falling far from the tree, Rep. Marcos packs such lofty credentials as his dad. Was it Wharton or Oxford for President Bongbong? I’m not so sure because Bongbong himself, I think, is not certain what degree he finished or if he ever.
Rep. Sandro’s grandfather was President and his dad is President, and now, he is House Senior Deputy Majority Leader in the first month of his neophyte year in Congress.
But what’s with titles and lofty credentials, anyway, if this young Marcos believes the “peso is not weak,” yet it can now afford only half the bag of groceries it could buy the day before they took their oaths of office?
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The SIM Registration Act has been signed into law. Hooray!
So, why did I still wake up yesterday morning with half a dozen SPAM messages and another half a dozen voice calls from pre-recorded loan agencies?
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Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy tells the Manila Bulletin in an interview that “there is no prohibition on how many SIM cards are registered under your name.”
Uy even suggests that registration be made online to prevent people from flocking to the offices of their respective public telecommunications entity (PTE).
This suggestion is logical and practical. The law is clear. There is no excuse for a person with multiple registered SIMs to argue that one of his SIM cards has been stolen/lost after it was used in the commission of a crime.
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The Philippine National Police (PNP) highlighted its bloodless operations resulting in the seizure of more than P6.7 billion worth of “shabu” in Manila last weekend as the new face of the drug war.
What can I say? Keep it up, Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. Firing Line and this nation of decent Filipinos are behind you.
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