EASILY, the most heart-rending stories of the year are these two and they are about the utter dehumanization of ordinary human lives.

First is the finding that 60 percent of the country’s GDP is sucked up by the top 1 percent, with the 99 percent (I, me, my neighbors and everybody I know) obliged to fight, mano y mano and brutally, for the crumbs left to them. The No (Aquino) and Ro (Roxas) bros, part of the top 1 percent, don’t have the faintest idea on how the 99 percent fight over the crumbs. (If you want, No-Ro could also mean No to Roxas.)

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