Should my title be “Wazzup, Philippines?” I can’t help but react to the present situation. Juan dela Cruz symbolizes filipinos, same as John Doe of US.
The basic commodity prices continues to increase, a regular filipino hardly bought food for the family. How about the less fortunate pinoys, their situation became worst. The skyrocketing price of rice added to their dilemma. Its in the news everyday, price increase of gasoline, rice, raw materials of canned goods etc which naturally the finish product price will follow to increase. There are times that I don’t want to watch news, its always bad news except when Manny Pacquiao wins against Juan Manuel Marquez. The crime rate are also expected to rise because of the terrible cost of living.
A friend living in US, once told me that together with his familt, they’ve decided to move from Escondido, California to Texas. The reason is they can’t cope uo with the cost of living in California, they are better now in Texas. I hope, filipinos can apply the same strategy in the Philippines. Nah, enough with the wishful thinking.
Economic sabotage? I hardly heard of ZTE-NBN case witness Jun Lozada except that former President Cory Aquino has colon cancer and her chemotheraphy. I pray and wish her fast recovery. The people now are more focused on how to cope with the cost of living.
A colleague campaining for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last election told me that her “only” reason why she supports GMA was she is an economist. Economist? Why thinking of rice importation when Philippines is a agricultural country? The reality that she neglected many things and concentrated on other “economy”, proved my collegue wrong on her choice. Where was my collegue now? She migrated to US and plan to go back in the Philippines when the economy becomes better. Whew!
No matter where we are we always have something negative to say about our leaders. Every where in the world people always don’t like there leaders. I think it all come down to us individually of how we manage ourselves in the situation, how we adjust and how we apply the recent situation to have a better life. Sometimes we want to escape, run away not knowing that we re running away from ourself.
Start changing our habits, lifestyle and adjust to the situation instead of playing blame games. We are too quick to blame.