One ‘ampaw’ is enough, 2 are too much

President BS Aquino The Last, I mean, The Third, has urged the electorate not to vote for any “ampaw” for president. Unfortunately, his advice came too late. He should have said so in 2010.

Nobody quarrels with his advice against electing an “ampaw.” (For the uninitiated, an “ampaw” is a sugar-coated rice delicacy with nothing but air inside.) The country doesn’t want any more of “unprecedented” gross domestic product growth rate increase that’s felt only by 10 percent of the population and does not reduce unemployment. That GDP figure is pure “ampaw.”