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Round 2 para sa mga anti-JPEPA! Huray!

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Nakakatuwa talaga ang Senado ngayon, bukod sa mga pag­dinig at imbesti­gasyon niyo sa NBN deal ay sabay din nitong pinag-​aaralan ang JPEPA ang kon­trober­syal na tratado o kasun­d­uang na siyang lalong lulugmok sa ating mga Pilipino at gagawin tayong basur­a­han ng bansang Hapon.

Sa gani­tong banda, nalu­lunkot ako dahil ang bansang pinag­mu­lan ng Gundam Wing at Naruto, mga paborito kong anime, ay siya pang kumik­i­los upong pahi­ra­pan lalo ang Pilip­inas. Hindi ba sapat na kaming mga bagets (naks) na Pinoy ay mahilig na sa mga anime? Ngayon ay gagawin pa tayong basur­a­han at aagawan ng mga nurses at duktor?

Maba­lik tayo sa Senado kung saan muli ay naka­pun­tos ang mga pwer­sang tumu­tu­tol sa JPEPA, aniya nga sa ulat mula Inquirer.net:

Sen­a­tor Miriam Defensor-​Santiago, chair­man of the com­mit­tee on for­eign rela­tions, has threat­ened to sit on the JPEPA and not spon­sor it on the floor, which would effec­tively make for a diplo­matic rejec­tion of the treaty.

During the hear­ing, San­ti­ago told gov­ern­ment nego­tia­tors, headed by Trade Under­sec­re­taries Thomas Aquino and Elmer Her­nan­dez: “If I find it impos­si­ble to defend it on the Senate on the basis of your state­ment, then as chair, I will be com­pelled to defer sub­mis­sion of my com­mit­tee reports. In other words, JPEPA will be dead.”

This after Sen­a­tor Manuel Roxas II failed to get answers to the fol­low­ing questions:

• What is gov­ern­ment doing to help people take advan­tage of the JPEPA? “I want to know were, what, and what sectors…will be able to take this stepladder...to the window opened by the JPEPA?”
• What are the ben­e­fits of the JPEPA? “[What the gov­ern­ment pre­sented] are pie in the sky num­bers based on leads, inquiries, and let­ters. I want the records of the BOI [Board of Invest­ments] and DTI [Depart­ment of Trade and Indus­try] of what actu­ally came in. A lot of the deci­sions depend on the valid­ity of your claims of ben­e­fits,” Roxas said.
• How much did the Philip­pines give up to get these benefits?

“In the last hear­ing, I was left dis­ap­pointed because it has been made clear why it is good for us…We are fin­ished with the period of gen­er­al­i­ties. We want to move…to specifics,” Roxas said.

Mahusay hindi ba? Bravo kina Mar Roxas at Miriam San­ti­ago. Sana nga ay magtuluy-​tuloy na ang pag­baba­sura ng JPEPA, kung hindi man ay muling makipag negosasyon sa bansang Hapon upang lin­isin at gawing mas makatarun­gan ang kasun­d­uang ito.

Para naman sa mga ahente ng pekeng pan­gulo, tama na. Wala namang may gusto sa JPEPA, kayo lang ang mapilit, bakit? Malaki ba ang pam­padu­las o grasyang kayo lang ang makikinabang?