"ELECTION"
It is so sad that a Filipino can get ahead only if he leaves the country
and escape from extreme poverty. Many of us did, hoping that things
will get better but they are only getting worse.
Leaders have no clue about nation-building, more concerned on shaming
other leaders. Washing dirty linen in public has been a main Filipino
preoccupation, its national past time.
Meanwhile television lulls the Filipino mind by dreaming about winning
lots of money out of luck, not hard labor. Expats attend TV programs
where they donate their money earned somewhere else.
Everyone seems to rely on the labor of their relatives who leave their
children to work for cheap wages. Why, because the Philippines does not
have anything to offer by way of decent professional or vocational
development.
Get rich quick by any means is now a Filipino past time. The people
deserve the leaders they elect.
They can not think for themselves. They imitate US preoccupation with
gossip identifying with people in the entertainment business.
Let's be honest. The politics that we see on TV and other media is just
entertainment. Nothing real is going on there. just people wanting to make money by "luck" or whatever. The masses take sides over irrelevant
issues.
There does not seem to be an entrepreneur class that is the foundation
of a nation. IF there is it must be very small in number.
The Philippines has huge structural problems: Too big a government which
has become a basket for employment; balance of population growth rate
against GNP. The Philippines has become a satellite for other nations.
Filipinos make their money outside the country as low paid laborers.
What happened?
IT needs to build its infra structure: roads, bridges, flood control,
urban planning.
We are suffering from "dependency". Like addicts, we became habituated
to overseas income. Lots of Department Stores but no real industry to
generate income.
People cannot think rationally. They just have too many children they
cannot support. Look at other countries and they have made the
connection that population growth cannot be sustained .There has to be a
population control policy or incentive for having zero population
growth, just to catch up with building the infrastructure.
Filipinos live vicariously. An artificial economy that relies on
remittances. Adults go to work outside the country while their children
grow up without parents.
