Survey says Filipinos are not feeling the economic growth

Surveys are really ridiculous these days. One survey says 1 out of 2 Filipinos or about fifty percent of the population says the economy worsened, belying earlier surveys which even predict an 8% growth in the Philippine economy by this year.

More than half of Pinoys also said their lives worsened last year, especially those in the Visayas and Mindanao areas where a series of natural catastrophies hit and destroyed their lives. 

This perception is made even worse by rising incidence of crimes, continuing graft and corruption and the perceived scandalous collusion among technocrats in manipulating prices of commodities and goods. 

Now, what Press secretary Sonny Coloma wants us to believe that 72% of Pinoys still believe in President Aquino. The question I like to ask is--in what aspect do Pinoys still trust and believe in the President? 

Obviously, if you look at these surveys, people are saying that their lives got worse last year, they expect corruption to persists and there is a rising perception that the government is helpless in stemming the tide of crimes not just in Metro Manila but in all parts of the archipelago.

There seems to be a legitimate attempt to paint dark clouds overcast a grey and decaying landscape, as if to picture this country as helpless, hopeless and seemingly in its worse case since the sixties.

For Pinoys, the situation can be described like this:

" We live in a beautiful archipelago, always considered by many to be one of the most heavenly places in the world. Its beauty though, hides a dangerous Truth--that of a string of islands lined in what many calls the ring of fire. 

My country is always put under stress test every year, what with twenty or so typhoons, two of them in the category of a 4 or 5 in the cyclone range, earthquakes and occasional bursts of magma and lava from volcanoes that line this majestic archipelago.

What is unfortunate though is the sad fact that the barriers that Nature has created so that the effects of such calamities do not unnecessarily burden the religious people living in these islands have been destroyed. We see tree-less mountains. We see mountains with unusual carved sides, fronts, and tops. We see hills potmarked by holes dug by miners. 

These explains why every year, people live for months under water, victims of Nature's wrath against those who raped and pillaged her of her beauty.

The sad fact is, these religious people gave their hard-earned monies to their so-called leaders, only to learn that those monies go straight to their leader's pockets. Corrupt men race to the billionaire's leaderboard by directly robbing us of our monies, or killing our profession by smuggling, or simply killing us.

These men are the bigger threats to life because they deprive their fellow men of opportunities which Filipinos deserve. Worse, those who vowed to protect us are the very same people who constantly deprive us of what we are by right, bound to get."