My mom came to visit me last Friday here in Manila. One time, we were walking along the street of Pedro Gil when we spotted that a raid of those illegal sidewalk vendors is happening around the place. The people were in hurry which I believed are the vendors who can hide their stuffs they can still hide from those people in authorities which I believed were from the Manila City Hall because they are wearing ID's of the city hall. There were tables and chairs flying. There were those people screaming and crying which are the vendors again who are doing everything so that the confiscators would return their stuffs. It was really a tensed afternoon for them. Of course, there were those people like who happened to be in that moment trying to get whatever news as if there were a film shooting with all of its star-studded cast.
Poor sidewalk vendors. They were trying to make a living out of selling stuffs in the streets with only their voices as pure investment in a 24/7 system and now all their items are being confiscated because it is illegal.
Is being illegal the real reason? Or is it that the Mayor of Manila is just trying to kill every single low-paying individual in the city like what he has done in the Baywalk area as soon as he stepped into his office. This is really absurd. One time me and my girlfriend brought a wooden piggy bank right in that same street from an old man not because we really wanted to have that piggy bank or because the piggy bank was beautiful but we just wanted to help that old man earn from us because he was doing that the whole time trying to sell it to people walking in that place. We wanted him to live for a day with that 75 pesos price of the piggy bank. Now, the great mayor of manila is eradicating every single indivdual in that area. What a mess for him to see them.
The only irony is that the same people who are in that area would basically be the same people who voted for him last May elections. Of course, they were the "common tao" who are hoping that they would get a new life with Mayor Lim as mayor hoping that he will be the kind and "makamasa" mayor they knew.
I know that those "bangketas" could not actually boost up the business economy of the city compared to those malls like SM, ROBINSON's, etc., but forgive them for being in a 3rd world country.
We have the microeconomics and the macroeconomics as taught to us by many economic movers of our history but for God's sake, these people trying to make money in the sidewalks are part of our underground economy. They may not give high revenues or taxes and they may not care about so many foreign exchanges and the may not boost and may not be a part of the stock exchange and everything, but they are one great key of the Filipino people, of the common Juan DeLa Cruz in hopes of survival in our poverty stricken land. They are the market in which people rely in hopes of getting products in the prices they can afford. They are the best substitutes in all those uprising of commodities in out market. Millions of Filipinos rely on them so why kill them?
To you Mayor Alfredo Lim, why blame them for making a living out on the streets when you can't provide them one? You've taken the lights out of the once busy BAYWALK and killed the talents of musicians, waiters earning a penny out of a night job and now you're killing the children of those vendors who rely their daily "baon" from their nanay selling retail goods in the street.
Excuse me for my British accent but I think you're really such a tool.
Poor sidewalk vendors. They were trying to make a living out of selling stuffs in the streets with only their voices as pure investment in a 24/7 system and now all their items are being confiscated because it is illegal.
Is being illegal the real reason? Or is it that the Mayor of Manila is just trying to kill every single low-paying individual in the city like what he has done in the Baywalk area as soon as he stepped into his office. This is really absurd. One time me and my girlfriend brought a wooden piggy bank right in that same street from an old man not because we really wanted to have that piggy bank or because the piggy bank was beautiful but we just wanted to help that old man earn from us because he was doing that the whole time trying to sell it to people walking in that place. We wanted him to live for a day with that 75 pesos price of the piggy bank. Now, the great mayor of manila is eradicating every single indivdual in that area. What a mess for him to see them.
The only irony is that the same people who are in that area would basically be the same people who voted for him last May elections. Of course, they were the "common tao" who are hoping that they would get a new life with Mayor Lim as mayor hoping that he will be the kind and "makamasa" mayor they knew.
I know that those "bangketas" could not actually boost up the business economy of the city compared to those malls like SM, ROBINSON's, etc., but forgive them for being in a 3rd world country.
We have the microeconomics and the macroeconomics as taught to us by many economic movers of our history but for God's sake, these people trying to make money in the sidewalks are part of our underground economy. They may not give high revenues or taxes and they may not care about so many foreign exchanges and the may not boost and may not be a part of the stock exchange and everything, but they are one great key of the Filipino people, of the common Juan DeLa Cruz in hopes of survival in our poverty stricken land. They are the market in which people rely in hopes of getting products in the prices they can afford. They are the best substitutes in all those uprising of commodities in out market. Millions of Filipinos rely on them so why kill them?
To you Mayor Alfredo Lim, why blame them for making a living out on the streets when you can't provide them one? You've taken the lights out of the once busy BAYWALK and killed the talents of musicians, waiters earning a penny out of a night job and now you're killing the children of those vendors who rely their daily "baon" from their nanay selling retail goods in the street.
Excuse me for my British accent but I think you're really such a tool.
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