Posted on 09/16/2018 4:08:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday expressed his sympathies to families who lost their loved ones during the onslaught of Typhoon Ompong.
“I share the grief of those who lost loved ones,” Duterte said in a situation briefing on the effects of "Ompong" in Tuguegarao City.
“Those we call in the unforeseen events, in insurance, this is an act of God. I don’t know how it can be an act of God but that is the term used by the insurance,” he added.
Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs Francis Tolentino said at least 25 people died at the height of the typhoon, many of them due to landslides.
Despite the casualties, Tolentino reported to the President that the readiness of all the local government units (LGUs) has reduced the impact of the typhoon that hit northern Luzon last Saturday.
Tolentino was designated by Duterte as his point person during "Ompong".
Duterte assured Filipinos that the government is present in every calamity.
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I'd take 'act of God' over 'climate change' any day.
Wait... isn’t it an act of the USA due to our environmental policies? /s
The UN should ban the sun!! And ocean currents!! And none of the members should ever drive in cars again. They should walk from their $10K per mont apartments in Manhattan to their offices (while they have them, thank you PJDT for pushing an end to this). They should never eat or drink anything that was a result of activities that they believe contributed to climate change.
“I’d take ‘act of God’ over ‘climate change’ any day.”
Or over ‘act of Trump’ like the Washington Compost pretty much described our recent hurricane.
My Tagalog sucks, who knows what he means?
If he aint asking us to pay I don’t care.
Prayers for those in the wake.
At least Duterte aint whining for us to cover him like Puerto Rico.
I believe he may be an ally
And we got your back
Exactly, same goes for all the stupid folks (in America or not) who build in hurricane /wildfire/earthquake territory and then expect taxpayers to bail them out.
These are going to get increasingly frequent and having government bail people out incentivizes the wrong behavior. Let the local community organizers, churches and charities figure out how to rebuild without saddling the rest of us with increases in the national debt.
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