Alternative locations for your Grey Poupon, Madam President

So, okay, maybe they didn’t have any Grey Poupon; the thought remains the same, and Steven Tyler’s advice is still very much valid.

Days after this report from the PDI, indicating that “more than nine million Filipino families consider themselves poor, while nearly two in five say they are “food poor,” according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey,” this happens:

Gloria's ONE MILLION PESO dinner

A million pesos is a lot of money; no, seriously, it is. That’s a shitload for us, the other 80%. With my teacher’s salary, without deductions and assuming I get paid during the summer (which I don’t), it’d take me twelve frikkin’ years to get that much. A million pesos can feed a family of six every day for over five years. A million pesos can buy twelve 72 sq.m. lots for the urban poor. A million pesos is enough to put you through the five years of college at the University of Asia and the Pacific twice, the most expensive school in the Philippines. It’s enough to pay for a year’s worth of tuition in Primary or Secondary school for almost two hundred kids.