I Was Only Gone A Few Days . . .

And things are already heating even before President Benigno Aquino officially takes power.

Rumors abound that there is a rift between the President-elect and his Vice-President-elect Jejomar Binay.

Seemingly the rationale for this rift is the fact that Binay won and Roxas, Aquino's running mate lost.

This despite the fact that Binay has been a long running Aquino family friend and supporter.

Now there are added allegations that Roxas and his group is out to sabotage further Binay's relationship with Aquino.

Hopefully this would not turn out to be true but if it was then I will say this is one major case of being a sore loser.

But then again politics is everything but clean here in the Philippines so something like this is par for the course.

The same can be said about the Ampatuan Clan's denial that they had nothing to do with the murder of a key witness against them - Suwaib Upham, also known as Jesse.

Of course they will deny it but then again who is most likely to gain if a witness against them is killed.

Hmmmmm . . . who I wonder?

It's not like you would need a crystal ball to figure this out. But then again with the way our police and justice system are so incompetent maybe they do need that crystal ball.

Which finally brings me to the not so surprising news that Aquino's government would be facing the burden of a huge public deficit.

Again it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out who is to blame for all this right?

I mean come on people if you can't even figure it out then our country deserves what we are getting right now.

And he is still planning to go ahead with adding an extra 2 years to the elementary and high school programs.

Where will the money come from. Yes education is important but you need to fund it.

Also, I think the first order of business is to add more classrooms and more teachers before we can even think about adding extra years.

I remember that before my classes took the whole day. Now it's not even half a day.

WTF will anyone learn in such a short time.

President-elect Aquino should set priorities straight first before pushing for something grand but impossible to accomplish under current condition.

Until then we will continue to be stuck where we are.

But knowing Filipinos that will be par for the course.