It is still cheap daily living, which means cheap electricity so we can use our laptops and charge our celfones without thinking of sky-rocketing bills; flowing water so we can even have a bath in the tub but that is not possible friends unless you can afford high living; fresh air along sidewalks in the cities wide enough to accommodate five people together, seats at all supermarkets for those tired of window-shopping or for being loaded with too many bought goods while waiting for relatives to fetch them, being transported by public vehicles smoothly; without your having to swish here and there, cheap but nutritious food outside the home or at restaurants costing less than P50.00, daycare for mothers so they can engage in business outside the home if they choose to; and educational discounts for those who want to enter college or any school for additional knowledge, among others.
In the case of government services, what do we really want? I would like to have a telephone directory that gives the correct and honest numbers of department and agency, without my having to shift to another section, unit or any other bureaucratic box; to make every responder to a phone call take the message and try to solve it by channeling the call, if need be to the right section right away; a brochure containing a listing of government agencies and their functions, including officials to write to, what kinds of problems they deal with to be made available for free at every agency for the public to use; a complaints desk with a box beside it where we can lodge our angst against employees who dare to assume an arrogant pose or who waylay us making us move from one office to another or who give us wrong information; public libraries at every barangay with modern and updated books, as well as daily current newspapers -- English and Pilipino to read for free; a call number to report police officers who do not act on complaints of pedestrians and a reply from no less than the head of the PNP as to what has happened to the complaint to signify that the complaint has been acted upon; DSWD call number to report erring husbands or relatives who smoke inside the house with impunity, without regard to the health of the housemates, especially children, as the barangay refuses to act on such matters thinking that it is a domestic and private matter; making the barangay chair show her face to constituents three times a week at least and should not have an office with dark glasses so that we do not see anyone inside; meal allowance for serior citizens who can no longer move about and an ambulant food server of the DSWD who will deliver food three times a day in every barangay; free tutorial services at every school to be conducted by part-time teachers who are employed only for that task; EASY LOANS for artists, homemakers, those who want to engage in business in order to live humanely; free transport and care for those senior citizens who cannot go to church or worship houses on their required days; free vehicles once a month for families which cannot afford to go to Luneta, any nearby park for once-a-month outing, free whosesome cultural shows and not only basketball games viewed by men in the majority, at barangays once a month and many more.
The list is endless, Folks, as we go through this journey to a life of equality, development, spirituality, and peace. Amen.
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