The mines on television have all these pipes and tubes in them. They never had anything like that back then. I don?t think they?re anything like they used to be.

When I saw that on television, it just broke my heart because I know what those miners go through.

I don't care what you see on television, it will never show the impact of what happened.

It is a tragic picture of national desperation where many Filipinos are hooked to a television game show, pinning their hopes on partaking of the cash prizes to ease their extreme poverty. It's not 51 pesos to a dollar. It's 70 lives to the peso.

We have everything so handy today we never stop to think of where it comes from.

It just breaks my heart to think people have to earn a living like that.