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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Highlights:

The so-called P5-billion government subsidy must be devoted not to the importation but to the procurement of at least 25 percent of our domestic palay production and increase farm-gate prices.

- House Deputy Minority Satur Ocampo
Under her specific watch, Arroyo has not just made the Philippines the most corrupt country in Asia, she has made the Philippines the biggest rice importer in Asia.

- Conrado de Quiros
Okay, so even plants and trees know that, in this country, rice is a political commodity.
- Conrado R. Banal III
...the real crisis is not the ZTE or Spratlys but rice.
- Belinda Olivares- Cunanan
Unlike the oil shortage, the root of the rice crisis is in the Philippines, not dictated by the world market.

- Senator Mar Roxas
The country was actually facing “a rice distribution crisis” and that the panic was being fanned by the hoarders themselves who anticipate a rise in prices.

- Senator Edgardo Angara
First, there is the oil crisis; the price of crude oil is going through the roof in the world market. Then there is the rice crisis; price of the grain is rising and there is an impending shortage. And now comes an impending power crisis; we cannot generate enough electricity because there is a worldwide shortage of coal.

- Neal Cruz
We are in the verge of collapse, if there is worser than this tell me what it is?

- Tumaghoy
Philippines is capable of anything that is self-destructive! We are a brown race of self-demons!

- Tumaghoy

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