Designer Jockey

I got this email from a friend last night and I want to share it with you guys. I think the facts are a bit exaggerated nevertheless it raises good points. I hope it’ll help you decide who to vote this coming May 2010 election. Read;

Fact. (Manny) Villar has a minimum of 40 TV spots a day at a cost of PhP10 million every day the past 5 months for a total cost of PhP1.5 Billion - and that is not counting his expenses on radio, Dolphy, Willlie Revillame etc, etc and the election official campaign period has not even started - they say his budget is PhP20 billion and all for a job that pays PhP200 thousand a year!

Leading newspapers mentioned that this level of spending has never happened before in Philippine politics, it is outrageous and shameful. This is not also Nationalista party money this is just Villar’s money, so what we are really looking at here is one single individual who has a personal budget of 20 billion just to become a president. The rest of the cast of the so called Nationalista bandwagon are mere highly paid role players, that’s why it’s a political circus, with all political ideologies and colors (leftist, fascist, idealists, red, white, blue, orange, etc) packaged in one basket.

Question. He says he is a good businessman—and if he is, I wonder where he expects to get his return on his at least PhP20 billion investment. What kind of return will Villar expect given the high risk of this undertaking, he probably expects a good return - maybe double or triple his money in six years say to PhP60 billion.

Do you believe Villar when he says that his intention is just to serve? First of all if he does not intend to recover the PhP20 billion he spent, then he is not a good businessman after all. Second, what is so special and motivating about being the highest ranked public servant that you need to spend PhP20 Billion just to get it - the only believable and logical answer is that you will get back what you spent ten times by conservative estimate. If this is not the case then Villar is not fit to become president, he is mentally imbalanced.

There is more where that came from but that is all I want to share. What do you think?