Auntie Charo's Soapbox

C/P, of course....it's a comment that deserves it's own post...
Auntie, Thank you for saying what I'm sure hundreds of us listening to Ray Gibson's show the last two days were thinking.
Just where does Dave Tydingco get off? He's a slave to two masters!! These guys spend their time chasing whoever has the magic quick-fix formula then ask 'whats in it for me?' Please! Now, I beg to differ, this new GVB office isn't in the side street where Romy Go's office was - but! If I were Gerry Perez, I would be pissed royal that they did this just as I'm ready to walk in the door and damn! didn't invite me to the party! Sure, the $36K is a drop in the bucket compared to what Continental Airlines spends on marketing, but the shady and shabby way this was done reeks of typical political BS like nothing else. Please don't tell me that the office won't make discount hotel arrangements for the guys flying off there for their famous horizontal cha-cha lessons, their elaborate golf escapades...whatever Auntie, continue to give them crap - they deserve it!"
So, I don't begrudge Mr. Whatchamacallit and Mr. Stuttering-clueless spinmeisters their junket trips to Glorietta and whatever other activities they do while in a paradise made for men.....but don't insult our intelligence-and try to convince us that Continental and PAL needs a dismal office in order to keep flying their very lucrative route....you may be stupid but not all of us are...we've obviously made a friendly 'connection' in Manila and made a 'deal' with him/er and we opened an office.......we shoved the excuse down the throats of the people of Guam and shoved the stupid story that we've been working on it for two years.......yeah, secretly and we even lied, yes, we lied about that too. I'm not upset about the office anymore, I'm just upset that we keep being lied to......it's like there's no one working at any agency that we can trust anymore...that's very upsetting.
I'm really sorry that KUAM didn't bother to ask how many people went on that junket to the PI for the GRAND/gala opening.......since the travel office is going to keep air amnesia open for a few more years, I'm sure they comped the tickets and some hotel probably comped the rooms......but somebody(the government) paid something for somebody to attend the gala opening........don't you want to know who went on your dime?
Oh hell.....we have lots of money to burn, who the hell cares anymore.............I'm just banging my head on the wall and it just irritates my husband..........wonder what other idiotic thing will happen to waste money tomorrow!