Jueteng is an ?open-secret? illegal numbers game; and if we have to legalize it, as former President Joseph ?Erap? Estrada suggested, why don?t we legalize as well piracy and drug pushing? After all, many lives also depend on these crimes for survival.

Pagcor-run casinos are legal and so is the PCSO-operated lotto, Estrada opined. But of course every country has casinos and lottery games, which are operating legally for amusement, recreation and leisure.

Equally important is that while jueteng employs and ?feeds? thousands of jueteng ?commissioners,? collectors and sidekicks, it robs thousands of housewives of their much-needed household funds.

So if rich people are robbed in casinos and lotto games, they just don?t care since they enjoy. But if you rob an ordinary Filipino in jueteng, you?re killing them as well as their children.

I wonder why Erap would like to legalize jueteng when in fact it caused his downfall.

Well, talk about being callous.

The right solution to unemployment is not to legalize jueteng. The right solution is to create decent and dignifying jobs.

?WILBERT EDGIL R. ROMENA,
wilbert_edgil88@yahoo.com