Foreign Secretary Ople dies

[zero]

sa kanya na uso ang Saudi.
he was the one who negotiated with the king of Saudi Arabia to hire Filipino contract workers during the mid-70's.

[Sheep]

sorry sa mga peeps na na offend ko sa statement ko...
di naman personal ang galit ko or whatever...
cguro kaya ko nasabi ay naaasar lang ako sa political situation natin ... parang ang gugulo at parang wala nang politician na di corrupt (sana po ay naiintindihan ninyo)

sorry po sir glennster and otep

[GlennSter]

Originally posted by Sheep
sorry sa mga peeps na na offend ko sa statement ko...
di naman personal ang galit ko or whatever...
cguro kaya ko nasabi ay naaasar lang ako sa political situation natin ... parang ang gugulo at parang wala nang politician na di corrupt (sana po ay naiintindihan ninyo)

sorry po sir glennster and otep

ay!ako po ay hindi na offend....i understood what you said po!

[OTEP]

Hindi din po ako offended. Don't worry sir Sheep.

[TJMaxx]

For those of you not old enough to remember or weren't
even born yet during Martial Law time, you should be
thankful to Blas "Ang Kulog ng Hagonoy" Ople.
He was the Secretary of Labor during the Martial Law
years and he was the one who pushed for the deployment
of Filipino Overseas Contract Workers in the early 70s to
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which at that time was experiencing
a construction boom as they suddenly found themselves awash
in petrodollars.
As you all know, it is the remittances of the OFWs that has
kept this country afloat all these years and through all
these financial crises. Without OFW remittances, we could
have become another Cambodia or Laos or Burma.
Blas Ople HAD THE FORESIGHT. He practically invented OFWs.
That will be his legacy.
Bet they didn't teach you that.
A lot of good things came about during Marcos' time because
his cabinet were composed of high-caliber intellectuals. Blas
Ople was one of them. Compare his caliber with the politicians
and government bureaucrats that we have now...