Butuan City is poor. Maybe one of the poorest in the country. Though it exists for centuries and moving towards modernity (as what many Butuanons proudly claimed), poverty still lingers in the face of this historic place. Poverty has many faces as what most experts say. But when we saw beggars anywhere, it simply reflects the sad state of Butuan. Why do we can’t provide basic services to these marginalized part of our society? Is it because half of our annual P800 million budget was eaten up in paying the City Government’s huge debts? Maybe our City Government are putting too much emphasis on infrastructure projects forgetting the socio-economic needs of our people.
I was walking along A.D. Curato Street going to Mercury Drugstore when I saw beggars sleeping on the sidewalk. There are many like them. Try going to Montilla Boulevard and you’ll see more of these poor souls. Are you still proud to claim Butuan ato ini?
well, I presume there are NO beggars too in Cebu, Manila or Davao or other parts of the poor Philippines for that matter. And ONLY exclusively in your poor place, is that what you are trying to say?
there are no beggars in the bukids of Surigao del Sur nor hardly any of them in Tagbina town, are you saying that sleepy Tagbina is Richer because there are no beggars compared to your poor city of Butuan?
Funny. YOU presumed that NO beggars in Cebu, Manila, Davao or elsewhere but accused ME of claiming that assumption. Come on. You missed the point.
Are you not just comfortable accepting the truth? Thanks for reading.