My lawyer-friend from UP, Comelec Commissioner Luie Tito Guia posted this in his fb wall last Wednesday:
Thank you for the inspiring visit Compañero Ramil
Comendador. May there be more of you in this world. It was in this office, then
occupied by Comm. Rene Sarmiento, where he started working for Comelec.
Allow me please to incorporate in this post, Comm. Rene's
story:
"SPECTACULAR BAR EXAM NEWS! In 2006, he applied for
work in my office at COMELEC as utility man/ janitor. I had not met him from
Adam but knowing he was from Catanduanes and was very passionate to work with
me, I accepted him. He comes from a poor family "Ang sahig nila sa
probinsiya ay lupa." While working in my office, he asked me if he could
study after office hours and I said yes. He finished his pre-law studies, living
a Spartan way of life. Very simple. After pre-law, he asked me if he could
study law. I said "Why not?" He received much encouragement from my
legal and non-legal staff. His cheering squad. After my retirement from the
COMELEC, he contnued his law studies. Today, he is now ATTY. RAMIL COMENDADOR.
Today, I say "I bless the Lord. So great is your faithfulness to
Ramil!""
Atty. Rwn Caliba was one of the lawyers in the office
Comm Sarmiento and he shared this:
"I first met this guy in 2007. We both started
working for Commissioner Rene V. Sarmiento at the COMELEC in that same year.
While we fussed with legal concerns at the Legal Unit, he was silently and
patiently doing his tasks: cleaning our office and doing errands without
complaint. While everybody was headed home, Ramil had to rush to his classes.
Almost a decade after that meeting in 2007, his efforts
paid off. Congratulations to a good colleague and friend.
Welcome to the legal profession, ATTY. RAMIL
COMENDADOR!"
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I think the dispensers of many government freebies -- free healthcare, free cash transfer, free housing (ala Kadamay), free univ. education, etc. -- may be unhappy with self-driven poor people like him. They can get out of poverty with minimal government freebies.
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I think the dispensers of many government freebies -- free healthcare, free cash transfer, free housing (ala Kadamay), free univ. education, etc. -- may be unhappy with self-driven poor people like him. They can get out of poverty with minimal government freebies.
In the literature of endless freebies to "fight
poverty", government politicians, officials and consultants do not ask the
the micro and personal aspects of poverty, they just throw away tax money to poor
and pretending-to-be-poor people. A person who does not want to work, or a
person who works 4 hours then complains about work for another 4 hours, or a person who works 6 days a week but also drinks and parties 6 nights a week and
have zero savings, will become poor, 101%. Yet government throws endless, no timetable
subsidies.
Education for the poor, healthcare for the poor, housing
for the poor, tractors for the poor, cash transfer for the poor, pills and
condoms for the poor,...
Next will be iPad for the poor, flat tv and jacuzzi for
the poor, free universal income for the poor, free electricity for the poor,
car for the poor. Whatever, so long as taxpayers are screwed forever, Government
(politicians, officials, consultants) will continue the subsidies and create
new subsidies for the poor and pretending-to-be-poor.
A friend, DJ Castro alerted me on this person who criticized people who applaud this new lawyer. Very insecure comments, see this.
"Sino bang mahirap ang di nangarap na maging doctor
o propesyonal?" -- marami. At maski may pera ka, mahirap maging doctor or
lawyer or engineer or physicist, etc. Titigil ka sa kakapasyal sa malls, bars ng madalas. Titigil ka kakainom gabi-gabi, or
mahjong, tong-its or karaoke gabi-gabi, kasi madami kang exams and
assignments. Madaming tao ayaw maghirap lalo pa intellectual exercises, ke mahirap or mayaman. Mas madali pa-inom-inom, pa-sosyal-sosyal, pasugal-sugal, etc.
Socialists hate successful people, especially the
self-reliant, ambitious, non-welfare-dependent, non-state-worshipper people.
-------------See also:
Welfarism 30: Big Government and Corruption of People's Values, December 06, 2014
Welfarism 31: More CCT and Subsidy Programs Won't Solve Self-inflicted Poverty, February 12, 2016
Welfarism 32, On forcing restaurants to give their excess food to charities, July 27, 2016
Cicero, welfarism and fiscal irresponsibility, August 11, 2016
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