A "STRAIGHT PATH" THAT'S "PAURONG," NOT "PASULONG"

An Inquirer news item this morning reveals, "Pnoy suspends 3 bridge projects worth P3-B due to overpricing."  It's truly nice to hear that!  But reassuring, I still have some doubts.

I know that the news refers to the Bridge Projects Scam apparently began in GMA's time, and is the subject of Sen. Serge Osmena's ongoing Senate probe "in aid of legislation" kuno --  even as only the devil knows if there is going to be a legislation to emanate therefrom.   As far as I know -- to give credit where credit is due -- this mega scam was first revealed by a movement called "InfraWatch," with my good friend, Rick Ramos, at its helm. 

As I said, it is nice to hear that the present administration's drum-beaters have been earnestly pursuing Pnoy's much ballyhooed "tuwid na daan."  The only little problem, it seems to me, is that the "straight path" they are pursuing might only be selectively leading to the past -- in other words, "paurong" -- rather than "pasulong" or a walk through the present to eventually lead to a brighter future. 

Why do I say that?  Simple!  The present administration has now been on its third year. Since bridges do not normally take too long to build, it is not entirely far-fetched to speculate, then, that the implementation of the three now-suspended bridge projects had began not as much before as during the present administration.  And so, two curious questions ache for equally curious answers:  Have these three specific projects continued to be pursued under the self-same anomalous circumstances as those pursued in GMA's time? I have no quarrel with the need to make GMA accountable for her past "sins" on the bridge projects in general. So be it in the interest of truth.   But why, with respect to these three projects, call quite selectively only GMA's public works men ( Ebdane, et al) and not likewise, in fact more appropriately, the present DPHW bosses, to shed a probably brighter light?  For all we know, they  may have themselves made of these three suspended projects their very own milking cow.  I mean, fair is fair!

This is what I mean in saying -- nay, just imagining -- that Pnoy's "straight path" is being pursued rather "paurong" than "pasulong."  If that is the case, then, where is that path leading us to?