'Cong. Tractor' diversion

CTALK

- CITO BELTRAN

My friends came prepared for dinner last Thursday at the Podium. They even came with a list of questions: "Is RSA for real?" "It sounds too good to be true." "What's in it for him?"

What they did not realize was that the questions were the same as the ones being peddled by "Negatrons" and "Distractors" probably hired by "Cong. Tractors" or congressmen and contractors now feeling the heat from PBBM, the media, Mayors for Good Governance and the public.

For the record, my hosts/friends have no political leanings. They are business people with an overflowing curiosity on what's behind the headlines and their effect on business.

They did not even wait for dessert to know more about the bold, welcome, but incomprehensible declaration of Ramon Ang, president/chairman of San Miguel Corporation, that he would undertake solving the flooding problems of Metro Manila at no cost to the country.

#1 Is this for real? Yes, it's for real, and might I add, it is "vintage RSA" to offer the best solution instead of pointing blame or singing the refrain of mistakes and failures of others.

Ramon Ang is not "presumido" or presumptuous as to go out on a limb uninvited. I suspect that sometime before the SONA bombshell, PBBM must have already shared his frustration about the difference in quality of public versus private sector infrastructure.

Long before his role in San Miguel Corporation, Ramon Ang was already a problem solver, tinkering with machines, engines and rally cars, factories and industrial plants.