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

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.

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

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.