‘All politicians lie’

More than 30 million voters must have thought Ferdinand Marcos Jr. could bring prosperity to this nation with all the obscenely mind-boggling wealth estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars his family has been hiding in secret domestic and foreign bank accounts all these years. Ill-gotten or not, they really couldn’t care less as long as all that money is finally put to good use by Marcos Jr. whether in atonement for the “sins” of his father or for his own love for country.

For example, they probably sensed where he was coming from when he promised to bring down the price of rice to P20 per kilo, something economists decry as a blatant lie. That can only happen through massive government subsidy. But given the fact that the government has been practically bankrupted by the debts wantonly incurred by the Duterte administration, it has become wishful thinking. Only the Marcos wealth can make that happen.

But little known is the fact that Marcos Jr. had nothing to do with the Bangui Wind Farm, “the first power-generating windmill farm in Southeast Asia,” contrary to his claims. Not a single centavo came from the Marcos family to fund that project as already fact-checked by several reports. How then could Marcos Jr. have the gall to grab credit for that project and use it as a major part of his election campaign? But then again, as his running mate, Sara Duterte, used to say, “all politicians lie.”

If you thought that Marcos wealth would come pouring down like the Niagara Falls once he got elected president, don’t hold your breath!

CHIN CHIN KATIGBAK
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