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It’s not like everything’s fool-proof, right? But the way I see it, the government or the people, whoever they are, controlling the reins of this country is losing it. I don’t know who is/are responsible because, frankly, if you point a finger at anyone in office, they’ll weasel their way out by pointing their puckers to somebody else. You can’t really pin anyone down. And that’s the problem. No one is brave enough to raise their hands and claim responsibility for all this sh*t that we’re in. But then again, all these troubles we’ve been having are not the sole efforts of one man. You could say it’s a collaborative effort of a team working against progress and moral decency. And, as they say, there’s no ‘I’ in team.

It started with that NO RICE SHORTAGE thing that made a superstar out of NFA and Sec. Arthur Yap. Whether we have enough supply or not, the fact remains that the local farmers are still receiving squat from the government to support or help them at least. No loans for the small farmers, no possible profit. How could they sustain their crops? Even if the 2007 and 2000 census figures had the lowest annual population growth rate recorded for the Philippines since the 1960s, the number of farmers expected to provide the whole country with the staple crop is just too small and under compensated to carry such responsibility.

With this in mind, the issue of birth control is once again thrown in the arena. The idea that the country only has enough resources for a limited number of it’s citizens is acceptable. I mean, we are such a small archipelagic nation by the way, so it would do us good to keep our population small for us to reap the benefits of our natural resources to it’s fullest. So, the Church wants the natural way of controlling birth. I have nothing against that except that with the ‘sky’s the langit‘ soaring of prices these days, the average worker would need more than just 20 pesos added to their paychecks: I mean, they would need an extra dose of ‘entertainment’ to fill in their empty pockets and growling stomachs. You need to keep the people happy and entertained to make them forget about their troubles, right? So, where do they turn to: men’s magazines, drugs and ahm, sex. I don’t know, I’m just sorting this out in my head (so please comment if you think this isn’t plausible). 

And now, there’s that issue with Meralco and NaPoCor and that doomed government overtake with the said sister company of ABS-CBN. And that Nuclear Power Plant issue reborn. And then there’s that pissy photo of PGMA at the Shenzhen Golf place, which, Senators and leftists say, is proof that PGMA, FG and Abalos went there to cook up the deal with the ZTE officials regarding the NBN Deal. It’s calamity after calamity, really. And what do they expect the people to do: smile and get on with our lives like everything’s fine? People need money to live and this country needs a functioning government to move on forward. We need people who care about the country and it’s citizens, not corrupt officials who do nothing but scheme to get more money out of the people’s taxes. The overall image of the government is bad; in case they’re not aware. It’s not only because the people are unimpressed or dismayed of their performance but because we are able to see first hand how crappy they work. We tend to receive the full force of their stupidity and crass behavior. WE, not they.

Still looking forward to the 2010 elections? =]

 

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