BY MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
When I opined at Face Book the order of President Rodrigo Rodrigo Duterte to the Department of Labor & Employment to convene the Wage Boards in the various regions in the country to increase the minimum wages, I cited that the spikes will only make the employers’ recoup their expenses for the wages from the masses – their end users.
My wife then posed to me:
“Paano iyong mga pokpok (prostitutes, harlot, and whore), Marcelo (psst my real name son of a gun!), magtataas din sila ng presyo?”
My wife then posed to me:
“Paano iyong mga pokpok (prostitutes, harlot, and whore), Marcelo (psst my real name son of a gun!), magtataas din sila ng presyo?”
Surprised, I gave her my following answers:
1) The vaunted Pokpok Pricing system will not go with the weakening of the peso versus the U.S Dollar, or the spike of petroleum from $80 per barrel to the $100 per barrel Saudi Arabia and Russia want to happen;
2) According to friends at the squatter area when I quaffed beer with them, an 18 to 30 years old prostitute in Dagupan City could peg at P500 but if a customer knows the trade, he could avoid the pimp (bugaw) and transact directly with the pokpok for P250 to P300 in three hours short time at a motel where he would either be paying P250 for an airconditioned room, P180 for a room ventilated by an electric fan, or P80 for no ventilation at all.
"Doon na lang ako sa walang electric fan sir, P80 lang mura, malayo sa P250 na aircon," my errand boy Galman joined in a supposedly family's conversation.
