'Roughly 56 years after Ferdinand E. Marcos delivered his first SONA, would his son be any different? Or will July 25 be another bad sequel, as sequels are wont to go? We’ll soon find out.' | via philstarlife
weren’t all free love, nudist rock concerts, and flower power. Unrest marred our streets, hunger our back alleys and farmlands. Quijano de Manila summed up the state of the peasant in these words: “A peso in the hands of a peasant is only a hundred centavos; in the hands of a potential Rockefeller, it’s a wealth-producing wand, the wand of a wizard.”The economic playing field was as unevenly sandy as Manila Bay’s dolomite beach.
The values people back then attributed to wealth depended not only on skill, but a character flaw on both sides of the poverty divide. A man unloads sacks of rice at Dagupan St., Tondo, “Self-sufficiency in the production of food, especially rice, must be attained in the shortest possible time. We must also improve and diversify our production of export crops so that we can develop Philippine agriculture into a reliable earner of foreign exchange,” Marcos Sr. said.
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