Rice shortage anyone?

Tragedy of a Nueva Ecija peasant

Wow! The news says, Nueva Ecija is the larget rice producer in the country. Wow, really!

But that is tragicomic. The penultimate irony of all time. I looked at a study of a small NGO worker in 1991 (don't ask where to look for it idiot, use your brains!) and it said that a farmer with three hectares borrows money from an intsik usurero who lives in a posh mansion in Nueva Ecija for a horrendous interest.

When the farmer harvests his rice, all the supposed income he gets is not enough to pay the intsik usurero because he has to pay in terms of palay and the valuation of his palay is a measly P50 pesos per sack of 50 kilos.

After the accounting during post-harvest time, the farmer again is indebted through left-0ver debts to the usurero despite the fact that he should have realized a true income of 100,000 or more pesos per hectare of his ricefields.

That's the tragedy of the Nueva Ecija farmer. And it has been going on and on and on and on. The US World Bank was never able to beat that. The Russian Soviet Union and now Russian Federation has not been able to beat that, despite the fact that Russia has been educating a large number of Nueva Ecija young people in Moscow Universities and other top calibre schools there in various disciplines.

Only the Philippine government can do something about it. Or else I will. I'll kill the usureros and let the banks take over. If the banks will not behave, I'll kill the bank managers too. Of course, Deo Macalma's bubwits will say, Hey, you can't kill the usureros! They're paying huge revolutionary taxes!!! Then let's electrocute the collectors of revolutionary taxes by their anus, how dare!!!

Transpose Isabela, Cagayan, etc. into the term Nueva Ecija rice farmers. The same situation is happening in many parts of the country. And all because our farmers are unfortunate enough not to have the wherewithal to make war against the usureros. Why, a lot of them just go to Manila instead to find greener pastures only to end up in the urban jungle and be devoured by the cosmopolitan wolves, many of whom are relatives of the provincial usureros themselves. Sonofabitches!!! Shits!!!

To Sec. Arthur Yap, you're right there is no rice shortage. There is only a shortage of very short babies' belts for the Nueva Ecija farmers to tighten.

Could you actually dig that, Mr. Yap? Madam President?