You can definitely see it coming. Huge throngs of people leaving the country, seeking greener pastures abroad. You see large numbers of families scraping everything they can find just to survive. Middle class families are drastically changing their lifestyles to fit their ever decreasing budgets. On the extreme side, you see normal poor families turning into neurotic ones, frustrated because they can't feed themselves properly.
One obvious good from all these is the blossoming of the entrepreneurial spirit. Just go around Metro Manila, and you'll see literally thousands of small nooks, eateries and what-have-yous scattered almost everywhere. The Filipino is finding their own solutions to the problem of the purse. Yet, with the national economy going to the bunker sooner or later due to serious attacks from the depressed global economy, we might see a further escalation of this deep seeded frustration in the next few months.
What's the solution? A change of governance before 2010 could change all these. What we need is a drastic change that would prop the people's morale up. Without a political solution soon, we may yet find the people resorting to their own extra-constitutional means to lift themselves up from damnation
“What's the solution? A change of governance before 2010 could change all these.”
ReplyDeleteYeah Pat, or perhaps a change of men behind today’s governance?
It’s not the system that runs itself; it’s those men behind it that run the system the way they want.
A governance system at hand could be structurally faulty; totalitarianism may not be inherently bad because its social justice system aims for the highest good of the highest number; democracy, though considered today as the best system of governance in the secular world, perhaps may not have all the structural refinements that can solve all the problems of the public.
But them who choose to run these systems have all the faculties and conscience to mitigate somehow system loopholes, offset these structural fault lines and run the system despite these flaws into constructive and best ways that cater to people’s welfare and develop human potentials. I believe an imperfect governance system can undergo evolutionary developments and overcome its structural imperfections if those men running said system only make use of their faculties and conscience to compensate for its lapses.
But the case here in the Philippines and even in America is different. Both countries boast of the best system of governance they all run. Yet mass discontents over the way it is run continuously breed among the public.
I think with the democracy both the Philippines and America have, both country may have a replica of experience of political realities in their respective turfs.
Therefore we may quote Barack Obama in his acceptance speech: “These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.”
Now therefore, could these political and economic turmoil happening locally, be the direct products of broken politics in Malacanang and the failed policies of pGMA’s?
Yes, I agree dan. A change of personalities is what we need.
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