Any which way I think, this is quite unrealistic and insulting. They feel really disconnected.
Sure, we can have a P500 noche buena but the point is once in a while, an average family wants to celebrate and maybe wants to buy something they haven’t tasted for the whole year.
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Cristina Roque says a family of three or four can make this work using their Noche Buena price guide. Take that to mean you can have ham (or maybe they are referring to locally produced luncheon meat), spaghetti sauce, pasta, and maybe 10 pieces of pandesal. You can’t even buy Gardenia wheat bread for P50 Pesos, it is almost a hundred.
Some people pointed out that even a simple spaghetti and cheese (take that to mean we also use ground pork/meat with diced carrots), it would really amount to more than P500.
I just came home from buying some veggies, a kilo of pork, three apples and a pair of bedroom slippers and my P1,000 can’t even get me home. That’s how basic commodities cost now and they tell us that P500 is enough for noche buena?
Gosh, if they only knew that ordinary Juan and Juana could hardly make both ends meet with the rising prices of basic commodities. They sit in their air-conditioned rooms not bothering to really check how the other half lives. We watch those contractors, senators and congressmen earning by the billions with their pork barrel and flood control projects which are never done because those billions supposed budget goes to their pockets. Although investigations are being done, no one has been put behind bars yet. Corruption is everywhere.
O Philippines, why is it so hard to love you???
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