Lying now a stock-in-trade of the Aquino mandarins

The mandarins of the Aquino government dish out a lie every so often that one cannot keep track of which among the many lies they pass off as true is the most egregious and brazen. Two weeks ago was an exception. The big, big lie was easy to catch as it was about a sector I am familiar with. It was about the supposed rebound of the sugar industry. And that sugarcane farming is now PH’s “2nd hottest job.”

The lie was so brazen that I temporarily forgot all about the sad story of a small sugarcane farmer—gloomily related to me just a day earlier—whose small plot was about to be taken over by creditors. After so many crop failures, he converted his meager sugar farm into a tilapia pond. Aqua culture crashed and he turned to small-scale sugar farming anew. It buried him deeper into debt. Now, the only plot of land he owns is up for foreclosure.