BEWARE OF GARCIA'S PAID MEDIA HACKS

A columnist in a Manila newspaper is parroting Winston Garcia's line that the problem with Garcia's harebrained idea (i.e., the failed eCard) is not the unilateral and Gestapo-like implementation of this program but the people's "resistance" to new technology.

But repeating such a skewed and stupid screed just won't fly, and it leaves us wondering how much government money is Garcia spending to get a good press.

Who do they think they're kidding?

How about simply admitting for once, Mr. Garcia, that what this all boils down to is your failure of leadership. In short, it's your incompetence, stupid, that's causing all the problems associated with the eCard.

Your asking people to personally enroll at the consulates in LA, San Francisco, New York and Chicago last March only to be told to come back another time after rearranging their lives just to be there was unconscionable.

They showed up after being implicitly told that their appearance was needed, or else they would lose their pension, only to be confronted with biometric machines that did not work.

The pensioners are all for keeping their pension safe from scammers (some of whom are GSIS employees themselves who extracted a slice of the pension check before releasing it, according to some pensioners) but they won't stand for incompetence in its implementation.

IT'S TIME FOR WINSTON GARCIA TO GO!