What's Happening in my Country

It is true, we have to work our a s s off, me I'm doing online jobs as well as looking for jobs offline, and I'm even reviewing for the dreaded nursing licensure exams, we are not the poorest of poor, but you know years ago when I was just in grade school my stepdad didn't even have a job yet we were living as though my dad's on a satisfactory budget, now, he's earning a lot and yet I don't even feel that it's enough to survive for the next month... how are you coping by the way? Our country's drowning in the ditch... When can we get out of it... I hope that when I've grown much much older than I am now, there would be some sort of resolution to this problem, you know when you come to think of it why did we ever oust Joseph, is it to suffer under the hands of GMA?

don't ever trust someone with an impressive educational background coz they're the ones who will rob you in your face and you wouldn't even know it. of course, you can handpick a few who wouldn't do this but you can count them with your ten fingers. we have a little business and right now it's not doing well coz of competition plus the fact that we have to shell out more for our basic needs...right now i am trying out a few online gigs. can you share a few? i have just started and i'm still feeling my way through...do think we would have been better off with erap? or FPJ? the blatant lies of this regime disguised as contigency plans to remedy the current problems only humiliate us further. they make the Filipinos look like hungry pack dogs fighting over a scrap of bone.

yes, surveys aren't that dependable. i'm gonna try creating a blog. i'm still organizing my thoughts as to what to write about. thanks!

it gets down to us knowing how to tighten our belts in times of crisis. it's just so infuriating when the government who's supposed to take care of it's people doesn't have the welfare of it's people in mind. those people are only looking out for their own interests...

yep, Philippines indeed.... GMA could have been a good president, but there's a lot of corrupt people from her family starting with her husband and son, the number one people causing all crap to break loose. Yeah, you earn big, the bigger your taxes are. Whenever I look back at the taxes I paid I can't help but think that hey, that amount of money could have been enough to help make something or do something for someone in my family. And the unemployment and underemployment rates are just unbelievably frustrating. You're right the change has to start within ourselves, we could only hope for something bigger like having the politicians change, they are getting fatter while their constituents are suffering, if only politicians could be honest, there's less than a handful of politicians that you could actually say that are honest. The influence of evil when it comes to money and power is so great that they just can't help but be corrupted by it. I hope to see the day that our political positions are filled with honest, goody too shoes, type of people. Maybe then we could see progress in this country. And maybe then no one would even dare want to set a foot outside of our country just to find the promised land. Let's hope and pray for our country's sake. It's not too much to ask for a miracle, it's for the greater good after all...

Thanks I really do hope that everything gets better out here...

Bio-fuels are no way a magic solution. They still need to be grown. That needs land; so less land to grow food. The crops needed to make bio-fuels need fertiliser - most fertiliser is made - wait for it - from oil! No, bio-fuels are almost a complete waste of time. So, okay, if they can be grown on land which can't grow food and take less fossil fuel energy to grow than the energy they produce, maybe. And don't forget, how is all that agricultural machinery made? That also needs to be factored in.

yes, I agree with that as well, it's just so saddening to see the things that has been happening around in our country, I love the Philippines, I enjoy staying here, this is my very own comfort zone and to see it falling apart just makes me want to cry sometimes, it gets me depressed to see it this way...

It's the same in UK. Bread prices are very high, fuel prices are soaring. We have threats of more huge rises in gas and electricity for our homes so we are having to be careful not to use too much. The prices go up each week in the supermarkets. They blame oil prices but I wonder if everybody is just jumping on the band wagon and hiking their prices up.

It is true, all the things happening in my country are happening globally, it's just so unbelievably frustrating, the rate at which everything is increasing. It's like we haven't even had a breather for a certain situation and then suddenly you've got another thing coming...

EXACTLY! why the heck are we importing rice when we should be making a living exporting them. I remember a certain radio commentator, it was during the issue of a Bohol governor who wants to produce rice only for Boholanos, like whatever rice they harvest goes to Bohol first, the commentators were joking around about BARTERING, say since Bohol's commodity is rice they could barter with someone from the bay area for saya certain amount of rice for a certain amount of fish, then came MANILA, we don't have any agricultural land in Manila right? Then he reminded us about the fertilizer funds, they were saying (in the point of view of the Boholanos), what the heck's your problem about our strategy don't you have rice mills in Manila you got a big portion of the fertilizer funds why are you complaining. See the point? There's nothing to cultivate in Manila, what buildings? Anyway, that's how corrupt this politicians are, getting a sum of money for something they don't even need and we are suffering for this. I believe in KARMA, so, goodluck to the people who are doing terrible things they equal to terrible KARMA as well...

yes, true ma'am, everyone in this country is corrupt at some extent. i don't think i actually ever knew any politician who has been honest in his service.