What's up with our Government and our OFW's

Yeah friend I understand your point, but your government has the capability and the means to do that and is always well prepared and does not deploy that much, I mean I am speaking of hundreds and thousands of Filipinos and the Government just seem to be doing nothing, yeah go cross the border on your own and we will be there to meet you. French foreign legions can very well do this on their own, and other governments would have a carrier streaming down th gulf by now complete with Shinook helicopters and a marine regiment, not us, infact as we speak the government is still discussing how to go about it, sigh

We are probably more experienced, but French or US citizen are also more often targeted than Filipinos. I think it is a typical case where UN can play a useful role and send an international army to repatriate all foreigners endangered.

yeah targeted because this jerks see this Nationalities as $$$ plus the chance to make an international statement, we can't wait for a U.N. resolution, it's just mayhem out there especially in Libya, it's all around the news here that both sides are just attacking anybody, if we do not move fast they will attack anybody that looks different from them, news is still unconfirmed but what if it happens? A Eunuch would perform better than out Government

Yes I agree with you, other countries are already moving while we are still in the process of finger pointing, as of now I think we only have an acting DFA secretary, hope they get something in place before all hell breaks loose especially in Libya

How can we do that? The poor make up the majority of voters so only the rich , the powerful and those that belong to a political clan or dynasty always winsyes pal, see you around

but these people bring in the much needed dollars to our country and we have been sending OFW's since the late seventies, wonder where all those money went why till now we still do not have and effective emergency plan in place, I hope there will be no more excuses after this.

hi friend, never mind those that do not want to go back and it's just fine with them there, but how about those who as I type this are begging the government to rescue them, some had been advised to stay in their work place and are running out of food and water? Others make a mad dash to the Tunisian or Egyptian border , passing dangerous checkpoints that they do not know who is in control. yes friend let's just pray, anyway that's all we can do for them, let's also pray for our government to wake up that it won't be like this forever.

That's the problem (always) if someone who is asking for a help from a far far away country, expect that government people will not act immediately, I think it's already in the 'system'. The government doesn't care their status especially in Libya. We as an ordinary people, always care the plight of our countrymen but the government, they telling us that the Filipino overseas workers are unsung heroes. I have a solution for that problem, change slowly the head of every department up to lowest rank, and who will be the replacement?, the private people, the employees from the private companies, these people are fast worker and they are not corrupt, they will work 8 hours a day (the government personnel works only 6 hours a day because 2 and a half hours lunch break and an hour of snack time but not all, they always killl the time). From that, we have already a good department head and follows the subordinates and look for another private employees from the private company and slowly but surely we will have a fastest government and will erase that bureaucracy, red tape, corruption and most of all the bad image of the government people. If that happened, no more problems of our Filipinos in Libya, Bahrain, Egypt and other countries because we have 'decent' personnel from our government. It will reduced the critics of the government from the decent personnel.