Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:35 am | Friday, February 21st, 2014
Despite the country’s 7.5-percent economic growth, joblessness and poverty incidence remain high.
Jueteng is the key to eradicating joblessness and poverty in our country. When I talk of jueteng I do not mean only the jueteng in Luzon. Jueteng has variants: In the Visayas it is masiao and in Mindanao, “last two.” Jueteng is everywhere from Aparri to Jolo.
How on earth could a form of gambling like jueteng eradicate poverty?
First, let us quantify the amount of money generated by jueteng nationwide. In 2005, or nine years ago, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism interviewed a known jueteng lord in a medium-sized town in Pangasinan and gathered that he grossed from P160,000 to P200,000 daily or P58.4 million to P73 million yearly. Assume those numbers have not changed (which of course is impossible given that there are more draws today than in 2005). For instance, the suertres lotto, on which the “last two” in Mindanao is based, used to be drawn only once a day; now it is drawn three times a day. Based on official figures, there are 144 cities and 1,490 municipalities in our country. Assume further, that only 90 percent of those cities and municipalities have jueteng, earning P200,000/day/city and P160,000/day/municipality: Jueteng should be generating a staggering amount of P88 billion yearly, in cold cash.
How would you make use of these billions to help the poor rise out of poverty? Remember that it is mostly the poor and the ordinary Filipino who indulge in jueteng and, therefore, those P88 billion yearly comes from their pockets. So why not transform jueteng into a cooperative undertaking so that it is no longer the jueteng lords but the people themselves, through their chosen officials, who will manage the operation of jueteng?
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These are today's Suertres/Swertres Lotto tips;
Yesterday's results are at the bottom
118
228
334
468
456
046
049**
146
169*
249**
469**
679*
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016*
179**
019**
159**
Yesterday's Philippine PCSO Draw Results
For Date: February 21, 2014 Friday
EZ2 Two Lotto
Morning 11am: 18-21
Afternoon 4pm: 03-19
Evening 9pm: 01-12
Winning numbers in exact order
Php 4,000.00 per 10 peso play
Swertres 3 Lotto Luzon Vis-Min
Morning 11:00 am: 9-4-4
Afternoon 4:00 pm: 1-7-6
Evening 9:00 pm: 5-3-8
Winning numbers in exact order
Php: 4,500 per 10 peso play
Four 4Digit Luzon & Vismin
9pm: 7-5-8-7
Winning numbers in exact order
BINGO Milyonaryo
9pm: B = 5 I = 2 N = 8 G = 9 O = 01 M = 17
4pm: B = 2 I = 4 N = 7 G = 5 O = 13 M = 01
11am: B = 0 I = 6 N = 9 G = 4 O = 03 M = 26
Winning numbers in exact order
Mega 6/45 National Lottery
03-43-08-42-40-31
Current Jackpot: P12,208,948.00
(0)winner
Winning numbers in any order
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* = Hot Numbers
** = Very Hot Numbers
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