Last March 19, Balitang America, a news program of ABS-CBN International, carried a news story on the GSIS fiasco that occurred at the Philippine Consulate General on March 9, 2007.It interviewed pensioners who waited at the Consulate for hours on the second day of the ill-conceived eCard enrollment. As expected, the pensioners had nothing good to say about the brainchild of the incompetent GSIS head, one Mr. Winston Garcia.
We have visited the Web site of the GSIS and found that Mr. Garcia loves to trumpet the fact that he had stayed in a Catholic seminary for eight years. We, of course, are supposed to be impressed with the underlying message in his resume, i.e. he can be trusted since he had studied to become a priest.
But we cannot be fooled. Joseph Stalin was also a seminarian, and he ended up presiding over one of the most repressive regimes the world has ever seen.
