Pinoy Diaspora ending?

This thought going the rounds in Pinoy coffee shops and habitues--seem like there is a preternatural force forcing Filipinos everywhere to go home. The Pinoy diaspora is ending. Filipinos are being forced by circumstances to return home. 


And when news of Pinoys returning home hit the headlines, we hear one familiar refrain--most were forced to return out of sheer fear of death, and some remained in their stations out of sheer fear of hunger.


That oft-familiar refrain is a direct rebuke of government. It is like that Pinoys have no way out. If they stay, they die from bullets from rebelling Muslims or they die from nuclear fumes from Japan's reactors or that earthquake or that tsunami. 


If they come home, they die from hunger caused by joblessness. No salvation in sight? No options available?


I don't believe so.


Pinoys should strengthen their collective belief in the capability of government to take care of them whenever they stay here or they live elsewhere. Government should respond and show to all Filipinos everywhere that they are safe to stay and work here, and their sacrifices are well-worth it.


The point of those going out of the country is the sad reality of joblessness, of the lack of funding facilities available for those who want to establish their own businesses and of the absence of an enabling environment for them and their families. Rights are being violated here especially those of ordinary workers and even of white collar and blue collar workers. 


Honestly, the costs of living elsewhere and here are the same. 


Now, going back to this spreading belief of a supranatural force forcing Filipinos to come home. Are we seeing the fulfillment of another ancient prophesy of peoples going to where they were born to wait for the coming return of the Savior?


Returning Pinoys are not a problem. It is the lack or absence of an enabling environment that is the problem.


Now is the right time for government to show to everyone that it is doing its best to provide not just the best care of returning kababayans but also doing its darnest best to convince these kababayans that it is well worth the try if they stay here....permanently.


It is a direct rebuke of government whenever we hear foreigners staying here, and building their fortunes here, while majority of those who are more intelligent and more capable than these foreigners look for opportunities elsewhere.