08/04/2026
I'm reposting this article about Mar Roxas, the quintessential man of honor we never acknowledged and the would be President we let slipped from our history. Not a privilege one but a hero.. a patriot, the real lingkod bayan. Sayang. I missed his service to the Filipino Nation. I hope he can volunteer himself again and help our Nation raised up from the abyss of destruction and devastation. Read on folks.
Here is a presidentiable who is often ridiculed as inept and incompetent. But never in the history of the Philippines has the workforce so much been indebted to this one lawmaker who sacrificed so much so we can have more. He left a well-paying job in New York to serve the Filipino people 23 years ago.
Here are the facts:
1 father of BPO industry - BPO industry posted 900,000 jobs in 2013 with a projection of 1.3m jobs in 2016. Average salaries of call center agents now at 17k-30k per month. (I like it that he didn't claim this title. It was attributed to him by B**g Borja and the other pioneers of the BPO industry. And yes, GMA signed the proposals and Mar was at the helm and was the DTI SEC during this time).
2 passed individual tax exemption for minimum wage earners bill. Senate bill #103. - No more taxes for the minimum wage workers
3 prevented the blacklist of Filipino seafarers onboard EU registered ships. EO75
4 cheaper medicine act was authored by Mar ROXAS. - cheap generic drugs made accessible to all
5 Fair education act that made educational budget allocations equitable for all municipalities
We made this man look bad while we made ourselves look good by claiming passion for our country while we bash him and call him vile names
We made this man look bad while we enjoy the tax exemptions so we could bring more food on the table
We made this man look bad while we have access to cheap generic medicines
We made this man look bad while we malign him and sip our Starbucks, to all of which he simply retorts, "it's part of the job."
If you won't vote for this man, then at least let us not make him look bad.
There is no honor in putting a man down when he continues to serve our country with passion for 23 years--without a taint of corruption and with nothing but good words from the 3 Presidents he served.
Let us honor the man who has given so much of himself when he didn't need to, so we can have more.
6 years ago, we chose Binay over him.
Still he continues to serve. He will not quit on us like an aspirant who took an American citizenship when convenient. Or that of another aspirant who passed zero laws & zero bills when he was in congress; and quit after two weeks of being a crime czar adviser with the excuse that he doesn't have a full grasp of the crime situation of the Philippines, and yet promises to solve our crime problem in 3-6 months.
I hope we do not make the same mistake again.
I hope we choose slow and steady progress vs drastic changes & empty promises from neophytes, thiefs and superheroes.
God bless our country.
(Edited version of D. Tan's post, member of The Silent Majority)
