Think Bacani

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    HE PUTS to utter shame the other pretender to the 1st district congressional seat of Pampanga.

    Where that other – okay Cong Ares Yabut, that is – had to bank, tactlessly if not shamelessly, on a contactor for endorsement, Luisito “Chito” Bacani anchors his run for office, solely but most sincerely, on his raw intellect.

    Misip kayo? (Think?), his prototype campaign poster asks and thereunder are listed his legislative agenda.

    Misip kayo? The question mark, rather than an imposing exclamation point there, manifests Bacani’s respect for the intelligence of the electorate.

    And think the voter ought to in going over Bacani’s agenda.

    A welfare state for the country, possibly in the mold of Sweden, where the underprivileged get the equalizing leverage with the privileged from government, in hospital care, education, housing, pensions and other services.

    Take that agendum to the hovels of Hadrian in Balibago and Roxas in Dau, to the resettlement sites of Mawaque and Madapdap, or down Abacan River under the Hensonville Bridge, what voter would not think, or try to think at the least? Think Bacani, that is.

    Suspension of the value added tax. This is really a component measure in a welfare state. Think how much lower the prices of commodities would go without the VAT. Think how affordable all produce would be to the ordinary citizens. Think Bacani, again.

    The VAT suspension on fuel prices would likewise advance one agendum of Bacani in his past presidential run – the imposition of a flat rate of P5-fare on all buses plying the Angeles City-Manila route. Only Bacani can think that way.

    Pensions for senior citizens from the Social Security System or other government insurance systems, again a welfare state component. As well as an enshrinement of the Fourth Commandment – “Honor thy father and thy mother.”

    One-day-a-week jobs to liberalize livelihood opportunities. An unorthodox, if not altogether original, approach to solving the unemployment problem. Again, think Bacani, and no other.
    Bacani proposes that all government workers, including the police and public school teachers, will be made to report for work only once a week. Their posts to be filled up by different people in all the other days of the week.

    “If one gets P20,000 in monthly salary, he would get only P5,000 for working that one day. The remaining P15,000 apportioned to those who would take his job for the other days,” Bacani explains.

    So what would one do during those off-days?

    “It’s up to them where they will get another job or means of income after working once a week.”

    Needs really some heavy thinking there!

    On the purely local front, Bacani advocates greater shares for Angeles City, Mabalacat and Magalang, from the revenues at the Clark Freeport, and direct remittance of the same to the said local government units. Bacani thinking Boking Morales there.

    Then there is his plan to seek a temporary restraining order from the regional trial court to stop the imposition of penalties to water consumers in Angeles City. Think city water district chair Romy Calara eating his heart out there!

    “The people will largely benefit from my plans and ideas,” Bacani says, confident that once the electorate gets into a thinking mode, they would most assuredly go for him.

    “People don’t go for moneyed aspirants nowadays. (That’s why) I can assure you that I can beat him,” Bacani says of Yabut. Beat him easily, even with Yabut’s formable endorser-contractor, barkers Councilors Agapito del Rosario and Robin Nepomuceno packed along with him.    

    Misip kayo?

    I already did. It does not matter that I am not a registered voter of the 1st district. I will still vote Bacani to the House – in the 4th district where I cast my ballot. As I did once vote the fiery Angeles City Councilor Alexander Cauguiran mayor of Sto. Tomas town. For sheer faith in his capability to lead, and serve.            

    Run, Cong Chito, run!  

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