Noynoy Aquino's Facebook fan page surpasses 1-million mark; first among presidentiables

If the number of Facebook fans is any indication, then presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino will definitely win the 2010 elections. His fan page now has more than a million fans. Whoa!

At press time, Noynoy Aquino's fan page has 1,002,101 fans, making it the first fan page of a presidentiable to reach and surpass the 1-million plateau.

Manny Villar, whose website has been recently hacked, is sitting comfortably in second place with 966,288 fans while Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro rounds up the top 3 with 234,439.

Other presidentiables with significant following on Facebook include Richard "Dick" Gordon (33,000 fans) and Bro. Eddie Villanueva (47,207 fans).

Pretty impressive, Mr. Aquino. But we do know a certain someone who might be unimpressed.

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE:

An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was $10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging. He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him..

He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week. He
looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket. With the last bit of compassion he had, he gave them the food. The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin. The young graduate said to them 'you need the prayer more than I do'.

With no money, no job, no food, the young graduate went under the bridge to rest and wait for death. As he was about to sleep, he saw an old newspaper on the ground. He picked it up, and suddenly he saw an advertisement for people with old coins to come to a certain address.


He decided to go there with the old coin the old man gave him. On getting to the place, he gave the proprietor the coin. The proprietor screamed, brought out a big book and showed the young graduate a photograph. This same old coin was worth 3 million dollars. The young graduate was overjoyed as the proprietor gave him a bank draft for 3 million dollars within an hour. He collected the Bank Draft and went in search of the old man and little children.

By the time he got to where he left them eating, they had gone. He asked the owner of the canteen if he knew them. He said no but they left a note for you. He quickly opened the note thinking it would lead him to find them.

This is what the note said: 'You gave us your all and we have rewarded you back with the coin,' signed God the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 1 Kings 17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30

PRAYER:
Here is your financial blessing! It's a simple prayer, you've got 30 seconds. If you need a financial blessing,continue reading this e-mail.

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God,
I pray to you that you abundantly Bless m y family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother husband and wife, but all Who believe and trust in you.

Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for Me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything.

I thank you in advance for your blessings.
Father God, deliver the person reading this right now and those who will read it in the near future from debt and debt burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a Mustard seed that You will pour out blessings.
I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come Because I know You are not done with me yet.
In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen

SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED ...I did.

SATAN'S MEETING: (Read even if you're busy)

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said,

"We can't keep Christians from going to church." "We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."

"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour."

"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I w ant you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.

"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."

"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their children."

"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice."

"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player w henever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly."

"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."

"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."

"Invade their driving moments with billboards."

"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering fr ee products, services and false hopes.."

"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "

"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night." "Give them headaches too! "

"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."

"That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."

"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."

"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."

"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."

"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"

"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences. "

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus."

"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."

"It will work!" "It will work!" It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

Please pass this on, if you aren't too BUSY!

I don't think I know 10 people who would admit they love Jesus.

Do You Love Him? IF YOU LOVE JESUS, PASS THIS ON!!!!!!!

Too much agreement kills a chat

The most efficient organizations today, government or private, depend heavily on fresh ideas. These organizations hunt for such ideas like treasure. They invest substantial amounts of time, effort, and money to be the first to get hold of them. To these organizations, it doesn’t really matter whom ideas come from so long as they can be profitable. The unscrupulous would steal them and not blink. Truly, brilliant ideas, even initially strange and unconventional ones are the lifeblood of any organization striving to survive and excel in today’s cut-throat economy. From computing, to engineering, to medicine, and definitely, to pedagogy, new ideas sustain us all. The old give way to the new. Challenging the norm is now the norm.

Sadly, however, DepEd for half a century now, has been missing much of the action, lagging behind in sloth. Our people have so dearly been paying the price for longer than anyone could remember and we cannot afford it anymore. The Asian region has been moving up for the past 60 years while the Philippines stumbles over one hurdle to another—one endless national emergency. It is not surprising that outsiders go as far as calling us a “damaged culture.” Painful to admit, but we are still “The sick man of Asia.”

But, worse than passivity are the blunders committed in all levels of the department:

Our curriculum. Ever changing, yet, ever inferior to those of our neighbors’. Perennially impoverished India now has more engineers and IT people than the entire North America. They are now selling the most cost-effective car in the world, the “Nano.” Talk to the average Indian living here and you’d be amazed at just how educated they are and how much better their values are set compared to many of ours. South Korea, destroyed by war in 1950, and with no natural resource to speak of, has now better-educated children than we have. They have phenomenal work ethic and are knowledgeable in all things that matter. They build things and we buy them. War-beaten Vietnam is now hiring our teachers for up to ten times the rate. Again, these people are disciplined as well as good natured, and therefore, advancing, fast. Malaysia is ahead of us as well, and tiny Singapore joined the big league generations ago. While other Asian children are learning how to build robots and super computers, ours are painting little potteries or embossing Xeroxed drawings with colored sand—on a national scale, for heaven’s sake!

Our books. So scandalously flawed, they make it on prime time news. Priorities other than education have apparently taken precedence over education itself.

Our teachers. Flooded with paper work they can hardly do their job of actually teaching. Outputs, outputs, and more outputs, forms, forms, and more forms, all for the heck of it, all for show. DepEd never seems to run out of new forms to fill out, surveys to respond to, and reports to write, as if, they actually boost up anything other than some people’s careers. The whole clunky machinery effectively reduces the ten-month school year to just nine months, the last week of February and the first three weeks of March being eaten up by paperwork. Students’ records are still done by hand, painfully detailed and ridiculously redundant. It seems that everything is thrown to the teachers to make someone’s job a lot easier. The result are fabricated data, useless, except for complying with requirements. Millions of man-hours, and hundreds of tons of paper wasted every year. But unquantifiable is the amount of stress this madness brings to the teachers year after year, for generations on end!

It’s 2010 and our teachers still line– inside and outside Landbank offices around the country for two hours, to cash their checks. Those in charge couldn’t care less. They must think this is all as it should be. They must think teachers got nothing better to do. When the checks are late, teachers are expected to wait and not say a word. It’s “unteacherlike” to complain. They are supposed to learn to wait. Why must DepEd checks be late in the first place? Is the pay check a new concept they at DepEd haven’t already gotten the hang of?

Those that can’t take it anymore go to Hong Kong as domestics, tearing their families apart. Licensed teachers! No wonder most of our colleagues have stopped caring long ago, numbed by the decades of neglect and abuse from an indifferent government, from pompous PhD superiors, and from street-smart principals.

But here is truly frightening: young teachers, in their 20s, already adapted to the “system.” Like clones of those before them, they quickly learn the “tricks of the trade” – without actually learning the trade. More paperwork? Bring it on. There are always the children. Deadline? It’s time for the children to copy the book into their notebooks. Look where DepEd has brought our teachers!

The National Achievement Test is one expensive yearly joke, with unspeakable repercussions: a delusional national curriculum. Bottom line, it’s an economic sabotage stunting the growth of entire generations of Filipinos. Where else in the world will one find teachers giving away answers to a national examination, year after year? Apparently, it’s the easiest way to keep Division Supervisors from breathing down their necks, demanding better scores.

Dropout rate continues to hover in the disastrous, and many “make it” by pasang awa—which is neither real “pasado” nor real “awa”. Everybody must pass to give room, literally, for the next batch of students. There’s no room for repeaters; just give them a high school diploma and hope it lands them a job, any job. What decent country does this?

Too many of our students are undisciplined and indifferent, perhaps, due to malnutrition and perhaps, after ingesting too much MSG and refined sugar—worse, aspartame—found in abundance in our school cafeterias. But even then, they might behave just a little better had we educators been the slightest bit inspiring.

Administrators and school heads are so preoccupied with garnering points for promotion. DepEd-sponsored seminars right and left, all done for the sake of “complying with requirements”, all at the expense of the taxpayer. Yet, there is little to no drive in them. Hardly any initiative. No desire to deliver real, honest to goodness education. It’s enough to get high NAT scores, win competitions, and receive recognitions and trophies. And then, get the best retirement possible.

Paternalism is still deeply ingrained in our national psyche. No one even knows it’s there. Administrators are nothing more than modern Datus, lording it over their little domains. Hasn’t anyone at DepEd heard of Consultative and Participative Management? Google it, for cryin’ out loud!

How many of our administrators actually have a vision for our country and are not mere career people? How many of us really care? DepEd is big on form but puny on substance. We are the proverbial “ampaw”, big, but full of air. Nobody respects us, not even the least educated of our countrymen, certainly not the rest of the world. There is no real leadership to speak of in DepEd, just plain old I’ll-scratch-your-back-you scratch-mine type of affair.

Most teachers are just weathering out the rotten culture, trying to protect what little career they are permitted to grow old with. “Tumahimik ka na lang kung ayaw mong mapag-initan.” “Wag ka nang magpakahirap, nasa public school ka naman.” “Sumunod ka sa kalakaran.” “Fifty years nang ganito ang sistema namin, babaguhin mo pa?”

How did we ever get into this mess? Could we ever redeem ourselves? Do we even care enough to risk personal interests, our cherished careers and our quiet lives? How long are we just going to draw our breaths, and then our salaries, both of which there’s too little of?

Good news! This need not continue to beset us! We need not pass this curse down to our grandchildren. We can still choose to reverse our fate. We can still pull ourselves out of this wretched socioeconomic and spiritual poverty and turn our country to one deserving respect. Respect from among ourselves and from among the nations of the world.

And the best place to start is not with the formulation of new rules, stricter regulations or more elaborate protocols. Yes, we need all those, and progressively, but they are not worth the paper they are written on if our hearts are not set right. Yes, the best, and truly, the only place to start is in our individual hearts. The wishes of our hearts dictate our choices. The choices that we make dictate our actions. The actions that we take dictate our future.

This is what must be done: First, administrators must stop seeing themselves as masters but as servants. It’s so clichéd, but we are actually servants of the people, servants of our children, regardless if we forgot it. Those in-charge must stop acting like taskmasters and start acting like leaders. We need leader-servants. They must stop pushing teachers to their limits and start inspiring them to push their own limits. Teachers must stop being mere executors of plans emanating upstairs, but vital sources of new ideas and catalysts of change. They must become co-planners and co-designers of education, being at the forefront of the battle against ignorance and complacency. Educators must be the source of inspiration and of strength to our children. We must stand for all that is right, despite the prevailing culture. Our children expects this of us; they are aching for it! True leaders do not just tell people what to do, they show them by example.

Mutual respect must be our binding force, from the Secretary of Education, to the school janitor. These are not mere words! Teachers must be treated as professionals and they must act as such. They must be treated with respect, even when at fault. Teachers must be recognized for their good work. They must be consulted on matters affecting them and their families. They must be consulted on matters of education–they are educators. They must be given what is due them, when it is due them. The amount of work given them must be calibrated to what is realistically doable, given the 400 to 600-plus students they need to teach each day, and the voluminous records that follow. Minimize paper use and turn to electronic means—it’s 2010! Deped is a behemoth: It blinks and forest turns to desert. So, workflows must be streamlined to bare necessities. No redundancies. No distractions from the teachers’ primary responsibility, which is teaching. Give them the opportunity to grow, not only academically but as total professionals and total human beings. Give them time to breathe, to be with their families and to be with themselves. Protect their psychological well-being at all cost as it is the key to their full functioning as shapers of our national destiny. Teachers with shattered egos, crushed hearts, and barely-there bank accounts cannot be model citizens let alone true educators. Neglecting our teachers, or worse, abusing them, is destructive to our nation. The effect is sure and quick.

Teachers, in turn, must respect all students, even the least able, even least privileged of them. Let us not ask an underprivileged student to do for us what we will not ask a senator’s son or daughter. Students are not in school to run teachers’ errands but to be equipped for national leadership, leaders of our country, not servants of other countries. Let us develop their self-respect by respecting them first. Let us feed them properly in school and let us keep them safe there. Let us take care of them as we would our own. They are our own, all of them.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela

Educators must be the architects of our culture, not its victims. They cannot let themselves to be tossed by the tide—they must create and control the tide. They cannot just watch things happen; they must make things happen. There are two kinds of fish in the stream, those that go against it and those that are carried away by it. The latter are dead fish.

If we resolutely start today, we can have a completely new Philippines in as soon as ten years. Ten short years and we could be on our way to becoming a progressive nation, with strong, educated youth, high in spirit and full of hope. If we could change just one generation of Filipinos, our country could finally achieve our dreams as a nation. Dreams of prosperity and esteem among the nations.

DepEd has over half a million trained and talented professionals in its arsenal–teachers, administrators, and non-teaching personnel. But, presently, we are like a badly maintained eight-cylinder muscle car, aimlessly chugging around on only four. This huge manpower and intellectual powerhouse could propel our country to heights never before seen in our history. Imagine what half a million highly motivated professionals can do as they mould our children’s minds eight hours a day, for the ten crucial years of their lives! We can put this country back on its feet! More than anyone else’s, this is our job, our mandate. We are the shapers of the national mind.

The Asian region is rushing on to progress. Most of our neighbors have arrived long ago. We have been lagging behind for far too long, but this could change right now. Let us stop blaming our culture; we created it. Let us stop blaming poverty; we invited it. Let us stop blaming the politicians; they too, were in grade school once. The buck stops here.

Let us do this. Let us not wait. 

VILLAR TRYING TO BUY PRESIDENCY - IS IT FOR SALE ?

FACT--- VILLAR HAS A MINIMUM OF 40 TV SPOTS A DAY AT A COST OF P10 MILLION EVERY DAY THE PAST 5 MONTHS FOR A TOTAL COST OF P1.5 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 P20 BILLION AND ALL FOR A JOB THAT PAYS P200 THOUSAND A YEAR!

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 P20 BILLION INVESTMENTS. 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 P60 BILLION

WHERE CAN HE GET THAT RETURN ---- TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET OF THE
GOVERNMENT OVER THE NEXT 6 years IS P10 TRILLION WITH ABOUT P1 TRILLION DISCRETIONARY - IF VILLAR MAKES C5 AND TAGA ON THE P1TRILLIO OF 20% ... hmmmm THATS P200 BILLION ON AN INVESTMENT OF P20 BILLION - HMMM VILLAR IS ONE SMART BUSINESSMAN.

WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE POOR? - P200 BILLION THAT WILL CONSERVATIVELY BE LOST TO CORRUPTION AS A PAYBACK TO VILLAR's CAMPAIGN EXPENSES CAN PAY FOR 40,000 CLASSROOMS TO SOLVE THE SHORTAGE PLUS, CREATE A MICRO LENDING FUND THAT CAN GENERATE 3.2 million jobs - CORRUPTION IS THE CAUSE OF POVERTY!

DAGDAG:

NOW THE CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG....
MANNY VILLAR IS THE SECRET CANDIDATE OF PRES "GMA" ... MIKE ARROYO HIMSELF MET WITH MANNY VILLAR AT THE HOUSE OF MIKE DEFENSOR LAST JAN 7.... VILLAR SECRETLY AGREED TO MAKE GMA AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND PROTECT HER SHOULD VILLAR WIN THE PRESIDENCY.. .. VILLAR AGREE TO GMA'S OFFER OF MASSIVE LOGISTICAL SUPPORT IN GMA'S COMMISSIONERS IN THE COMELEC WHO WILL ASSURE VILLAR'S VICTORY ...

PLEASE PASS... PARA DI TAYO MALUKO ULIT.

‘The Philippines is not for sale’

Every yet undecided voter must get to read Enrile’s statement

"I commend Senator Gordon for unmasking the real character of Senator and presidential candidate Manuel B. Villar as a man who thinks he can buy his way to the highest position in the land with his billions of money.

"I understand Senator Gordon has come out to tell the public about the bribe attempt made by Senator Villar through an "emissary" and a "mutual friend." I confirm that such attempt actually happened and I have no doubt about its veracity because Sen. Gordon told me about it immediately.

"My recollection is that when I filed the report of the Committee of the Whole on the Ethics complaint involving the C5 controversy, having been signed by 11 Senators with myself as the author acting as Chairman, my Chief of Staff relayed to me by phone that another Senator, who Villar was supporting to replace me as Senate President, had approached Sen. Gordon to join the plot to oust me and install a new leadership in the Senate.

"The approach, which came with an offer for a position of Sen. Gordon’s choice under a "Villar Administration" was turned down outright by Sen. Gordon saying "I cannot, in conscience, do such a thing, especially not to Senator Enrile who I regard as a father."

"On that same day, upon seeing Sen. Gordon arrive at the Senate session, I embraced him and whispered "Thank you, Dick. I know what happened." At that time, he seemed surprised at my gesture and just hugged me back.

"Several days after, when we were about to take up the report on the floor, I got another report that Sen. Gordon was offered, on top of the first offer for a position if Sen. Villar makes it to the presidency, was likewise offered a huge amount of money to withdraw his signature from my report. I was appalled by this report and felt it was my duty to tell Sen. Gordon that such news was circulating. I called Sen. Gordon and informed him that I will never believe that he will succumb to such a brazen act of bribery.

"Sen. Gordon privately confirmed to me that such offer was indeed made and that he felt furious and insulted by the temerity and gall of Villar to think that he can be intimidated by money, much less lured by an offer for a position of power. He immediately said NO to this offer.

"Later, I learned that it went even beyond that; that Sen. Villar offered "reimbursement for what Sen. Gordon had so far spent for his presidential bid with an added premium just to convince him to withdraw from the presidential race.

"I have known Sen. Gordon from his younger days, and one thing I can say is that this man cannot be bought. Sen. Villar is dead wrong about Sen. Gordon. You do not put a price tag on everyone, especially not Dick Gordon.

"Actually, I knew about the plan to oust me since last December. On the last day of our sessions before the Christmas break, Sen. Allan Peter Cayetano, on orders of his master, Sen. Villar, in no uncertain terms, delivered the threat to my Chief of Staff that if I make a move to gather enough votes in support of my Committee Report, Sen. Villar wants me to know that he will have no other choice but to take the Senate Presidency either for himself or for another Senator of his choice.

"As things developed and the co-perpetrators of the coup plot against me began to show their real colors, I surmised that the "emissary" to Sen. Gordon and Sen. Villar’s nominee could be no other than Senator Edgardo J. Angara…

"This attempt of Villar is similar to the offer made by another "emissary" to former President Estrada, our standard bearer in the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino- "reimbursement in exchange for withdrawal." President Estrada rightly turned down this indecent proposal. President Estrada’s candidacy is NOT FOR SALE.

"I had earlier revealed that Sen. Villar himself tried to bribe me into not proceeding with the investigation by the Committee of the Whole, offering me "help" for whatever it was I needed. As I said, I replied to him that I can only advice him to participate in the hearings and introduce evidence to counter the charges and evidence against him, and that I am giving him that advice for free, without any consideration. I wish to reiterate to Sen. Villar: I AM NOT FOR SALE.

"If you tie all these things up with Sen. Villar’s unprecedented campaign spending for advertisements, cash give-aways to local officials and supporters, his media budget and sum it all up, then you have a complete picture of the man who is now presenting himself as the "best" alternative for the presidency.

"Sen. Villar is a pretender posturing as a pleasant and decent person and using his poverty during his childhood days to project himself as pro-poor. It is as if having been once poor was equivalent to really having the heart for the poor.

"Villar has to answer what he has done for the poor since he became a multi-billionaire and in his long career as a politician apart from his expensive "give-aways" , helping OFW’s, giving livelihood, building homes for the poor by shelling out money ALL FOR PROPAGANDA.

"Sen. Villar must be asked what he did for the poor that he did not make sure was covered by media so he can use it for his campaign propaganda. He should be asked what social cause he has really championed as a legislator, not an ordinary one, by the way, for he served as no less than Speaker of the House and Senate President.

"He should he asked how he victimized the poor and the taxpayers of this country with his financial schemes in the housing business, and about the collapse of his own bank, Capitol Bank, mysteriously leaving him richer, not poorer.

"Amongst all who are now running for President, Villar stands out, indeed, as the RICHEST and one who thinks that everyone can be bought: the people through his misleading advertisements, some media people who are obviously in his "payola", political leaders who are vulnerable to his offer to partake of his financial largesse, and all his attempts to bribe even his colleagues and fellow aspirants to the Presidency.

"Sen. Villar may have succeeded to a large extent in deploying the huge fortune he acquired, perhaps some by honest means, but definitely, a large part, by the immoral use of his political position, power and clout to advance his own business interests as borne out by the evidence in Senate Ethics case and, much earlier, by the shenanigans exposed on the Floor of the Lower House by Sen. Joker Arroyo.

"But on May 10, he must be taught a hard and painful lesson by no less than the electorate. He must be unmasked and rejected as a fake leader in order for the nation to redeem itself. We must clearly send the strongest message to Senator Manuel "Manny" B. Villar, as Senator Richard J. Gordon has said, that THE PRESIDENCY OF THIS NATION, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, AND THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE."

http://www.malaya.com.ph/03092010/edbanayo.html

Villar Mansion

Imagine who would have such taste and live in such opulence?
  An American Billionaire?
A Saudi Prince?
Louis XIV of France ?  Savour the pictures then scroll to the bottom of the page to see who owns this Work of Art.  
This Mansion is in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and belongs to:  Senator Manny Villar of the  PHILIPPINES
 
While Filipinos starve, and die because of abject poverty ....and while Sen. Villar brags that he had poor beginnings and he had helped his poor countrymen over and over again... but look now.. he and his family live like this.......his GREED kills his poverty stricken fellow Filipinos .
PLEASE send this to everyone you know.
They can send it to everyone they know.
Soon Filipinos around the world will know what this man is doing to the people he wishes to serve if elected President.