It is uncanny that along with learning to fly as a sovereign nation, politicians play chess with the lives of people while trying to prove only the rule of law, that doing things "under the wire" saves the next administration from having to dance and share booty with the previous. If Filipinos were to look in the mirror and realize that graft is part of the Filipino psyche, then perhaps they would like to consider that there are people’s livelihoods at stake as well, people, who will not partake of the booty of running a large government gaming corporation. It is so easy to look at the "rule of law" but be blind to the disenfranchisement of 400 people and their families. After all if the saying is don’t crap where you eat, I think ordinary Filipinos have had their fill of a steady diet of political crap for too long and that politicians are too used to “going” anywhere they want. When a politician gets into power, his/her brain shrinks to the size of a peanut. He/she then takes matters into his/her own hands and decides largely for themselves what is good… for them.. Why couldn’t the show FLOW have continued without being subject to bureaucracy and red tape protocol? Why can’t a government department exist isolated from the trappings of appointments and who the next jockey is to ride the winning horse? What does 400 artists and production people have to do with political one-ups-man-ship and jockeying for position? Sometimes a man “in power” is only there for “the power” and not to serve his constituents. Is summarily cancelling 400 jobs a smart thing just to provide one man and his wife a new one? Where was the consideration for the show FLOW and its performers in all of these government reappointments? Evidently, the Filipino has a LONG WAY to go to benevolently wield power. You pat yourselves on the back for attaining high positions in government but you are blind to the needs of those that put you there and whose lives you were entrusted to improve. When Filipino politics stops being a goon arena, then maybe Filipinos will have a better self image. One goon goes out and makes way for the next set of kapal muks power junkies. For now, it’s just who’s the next power monger in control. It’s not all about the clothes, you know. And definitely NOT about keeping hundreds of people employed who were already working there before you and your brood stepped in. Wake up! Your political position does not make who you are; your actions will define that for you in due time and so far you're off to a bad start. The former PAGCOR Chairman provided jobs for artists and producers, what will the next chairman do? And about the jobs he crudely and ignorantly took away? So in order to make things "look right" everyone and everything that had to do with the previous administration has to suffer the meat cleaver? Even the innocent performers who have nothing to do with the politics involved who perhaps cheered the inauguration of the new President elect? If this is a sign of things to come and with an outcry by others against recycling old personnel, then be prepared for a turbulent circus ride run by politicians who don't know what they are doing. This is not a good beginning by any stretch.