‘Yes, Virginia, there are good Americans, but there are ugly Filipinos, too’

TLast of two parts

HAT message of Lesley was written back in December, but I thought of touching on it now because of a recent incident, which instantly kindled in me the thought that if, indeed, there are good Americans, there, too, are ugly Filipinos.

The ugly Filipino

Quite in contrast, this is where Roilo both and the President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her time, and at another time a must be a Filipino, but by chutzpa, he can be a paragon of that breed of

called American – or at least, the ugly ones.

At the Tapatan sa Aristocrat hosted he expounded them, could easily pass him off as America’s prime the economic front, he castigated the Duterte administration for falling into what he sang in chorus with other American propagandists as the China debt trap. He criticized the packages President Duterte brought there and computed that at 4 percent interest, that’s an enormous Duterte for entering into that kind of same from Japan at a much lower interest, something like 0.01 percent.

A good thing, with Golez in the Tapatan panel was George Siy, who rejected the epithet businessman, proclaiming himself instead as a scholarly manner that George elucidated Golez’s misrepresentations. He said that although the actual 2 percent - ously bigger than the 0.01 percent on Japanese loans, reckoned with the actual high cost of the projects for which those loans were secured, the Japanese lenders stand to gain a lot more.

Analogy clarifies issue

To clarify the issue, I am prompted to draw this analogy: There is this 11-hectare lot behind my own, which years back was bought at P1,000 per owner actually earned much more in the bulk sales of the land.

Japan, by offering much less in interest for its loans, got a windfall, compared with the mere pittance good number of components of - cial assistance packages that are

the two additional 10,000-bed-capacity drug rehabilita- for Filipino soldiers for use in the actually killing Abu Sayaff leader the Marawi crisis; and tons upon complete donation for the recon

loans that is hardly spoken about. Those loans are earmarked for the construction of the Metro Manila - the world. In procuring these materi necessarily puts on added cost, representing normal business markups, and this constitutes additional burden on the part of the Philippines.

Now, where does Japan get the things she needs to do the projects Where else, but China!

Surely such additional costs for be there if China herself would do - mates, with Japan doing the job, the cost of the construction projects becomes six times higher.

No tongue-in-check

Almost by impulse, I found myself wanting to leap to my feet and grab the microphone from Golez when, declared that not a single item in the $24-billion multifarious Chinese assistance packages to the Philippines in the forum was aware that there was the deal for exporting to China of Philippine bananas and other time, China had already lifted the ban resulting now in Chinese tourist mark, replacing South Korea as the number one tourist market for the country. And groundbreaking for the construction of the two additional bridges across Pasig had already took place, also toward the end of last year.

Golez was lying. It so riled one and fearless Mentong Laurel, that he took the mike and challenged the Annapolis alumnus to a one-on-one

Golez pointed to his Powerpoint presentation, which showed America’s trust rating among Filipinos rising by some 14 percent, with China’s own dropping by certain percentage points.

fumed Mentong. “

Golez didn’t call the dare. a man can speak a lie and betray no Anyway, he had earlier bragged that he was a graduate of Annapolis, the were true, then he merely made his entire character fall into place -a product of an institution known for its rapine of small, helpless nation.