A time for real leadership

At Issue: Local economy would sink deeper into the abyss of less revenue generation by year’s end.

Our View: In medical parlance, either the doctors (policymakers) act forthwith or they’d lose a critically ill patient.

The business community has taken a proactive approach to helping the work of policymakers on positive legislation that could lend a hand in their dedicated efforts to muddle through these difficult times.

It did so in view of the lack of real expert resources (budget and expertise) in the legislature to undertake such complex measures as the “Omnibus Economic Reforms Act”.

Essentially, the business community is analogous to an acutely ill patient in the ICU holding on to dear life. Family members (people in the villages) have but one last option: prayers in hopes that through Divine intercession their loved-one would bounce back to real recovery.

The only difference in such life-threatening situation is that real doctors would take immediate steps to resuscitate their critically ill patient. They’d go the extra mile in an effort to save him or her. They take real pride when that patient finally recovers and walks out of the hospital. It’s a victory for doctors and their medical staff, but a more profound victory for the patient.

The business community has asked our political doctors for help, any help that would enable them to muddle through their critical recovery efforts. Half the doctors (House of
Representatives) have responded with immediacy employing real expertise while the other half seemingly plays a filthy gamesmanship.

The acutely critical patient is left to fend for himself as the other half of the medical staff employs obstinacy in hopes that the patient recovers on his own. What’s the problem with such gamesmanship?

The virus or flu that has reduced a healthy business community strapped to its bed in the ICU is parasitic in the sense that it will eventually spread if nothing is done forthwith to contain the quiet though fatal beast. It is really up to the other half of the medical staff (Senate) to step in and lend a hand to save both patient and the people out in the villages.

Both the business community–who wish to return to healthier days and the people in the villages who have heard of the dangers of a virulent epidemic–await some statesmanship from the other half of the medical staff: The Senate. Gentlemen, the onus of allowing for real recovery is on your side of the court. Si Yuus Maase`!