Saturday, August 15, 2009

TIPS TO PP PEOPLES' AGENDA


HOW DOES THIS GOVERNMENT DEAL WITH THE FILIPINO PEOPLE?
1. It continues to send workers abroad instead of finding solutions to industrial financial problems here.

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2008 reached 2.0 million as reported by their families. The 2008 estimate represents an increase of 14.6 percent over the 1.7 million OFWs estimated for the period April to September 2007.

By continuing this mass exodus abroad, the government is able to defuse the raging frustration and anger over joblessness and the possible strengthening of the workers' movement.

2. Soldiers are sent to war sites that are known to the enemies before hand. Look at the number of soldiers killed, so-called reinforcements ambushed by the MILF, with whom the government has a standing battle cessation agreement.

is it possible that the soldiers had been sent to that war where they would surely die in order to turn the attention of the public from the ostentatious display of dining and tripping in NY and Washington?

3. Its biggest industry really is the pregnancy program. It has been shilly-shallying on supporting the contraception policy and has allowed the population to register a growth of 88.5 Million. This is projected to increase to 92.3 M this 2009. Critical sectors say that the lack of a clearcut policy on curbing the population is due to the compromise that this administration is making with the Catholic Church wherein many bishops, priests and nuns have grown disenchanted with its weakness in alleviating poverty, yet continue also to follow the Roman Vatican rule of using the unreliable natural family planning.

Hence whatever Peoples' Agenda will be developed by the PP has to zero in clearly on two things: how to create industries that will hire and give jobs to workers; and two, how to curb the population and prevent the exacerbation of natural and economic resources of the country.


-- painting by RENE MAGRITTE, Un Musee Ephemere. 1986

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