RP Needs Love

Filipinos don't love fellow Filipinos

INQ7.net

FILIPINO life has been restless since the world wars. It's too tiring. Too much politics in our daily life is poisoning the minds of future generation. How could we inspire the youth to make the nation a brighter side of the world tomorrow? The future seems to be dimmer for them; they would rather dream of working abroad when the time comes.

We have hardworking teachers and good education, but who benefits from these brains and hard work? Wasted time, wasted effort, wasted brains.

The primary Philippine export is its own people, because everybody wants to get out of the country. Getting away -- from pollution, overcrowding, protest rallies, rebels, kidnappers, high prices but low wages, and politicians -- is an easy reason to take the way out. But this would mean doing "the supreme sacrifice" of leaving the loved ones.

I admire how we care for family bonding. We would do everything to help our siblings survive. When I see Filipino professionals do low-paying jobs abroad, I can't stop asking myself, what went wrong? Are we destined to become domestic helpers, janitors, laborers of the world?

God gave us a great country, bright minds, scenic islands, and happy people, but why did God let us make Philippines so -- it may be becoming the hardest place on Earth to live. Filipinos have to sacrifice more to take care of the future of their families because the system will not allow and guarantee a brighter future for the children. Because of the shortcomings and incapacities of the system, we have to be slaves of the world to assure us a decent life in the Philippines.

If we sent the politicians to work as slaves around the world, then they would realize their shortcomings. A former president of the University of the Philippines and of the Senate who supported actors as candidates to lead a nation has nothing but personal interests in mind. A Senate president who publicly admits to corruption of his principles in a matter of days doesn't deserve to lead the Senate. Old-timers in the Senate are enjoying overstaying too much, improving their own lives while creating more misery for the poor.

Kindergarten politicians (like Panfilo Lacson and Francis Escudero) are wasting taxpayers' money by throwing mud at the government every day. Party-list representatives who were formerly shouting in the streets still shout against the government that they are supposed to help, now that they were given seats in the legislature. These people cannot be compared to the class of Arturo Tolentino and Blas Ople, who honestly served the people quietly and without grandstanding. I wish they were still there.

The problem of our land is the politicians who never care to find solutions to the agony of the dying nation. Greed and selfishness rule their hearts. Money rules their minds.

Filipinos only want a simple life, good job, a decent place to live, peace of mind, and a bright future for their children. We as a nation don't love one another. We don't care when we see fellow Filipinos sleep on the streets. We don't fight for our principles no matter what, we don't care that we have to be slaves of other nations. We have no self-respect and dignity as a nation. We never care for the future of our race. We never care for the future of our nation. We never care to be Filipinos at heart. Because we don't love fellow Filipinos.

If we and the politicians can do nothing to improve the quality of life of our nation in this period of our lives, then, I would say, it would be shameful to be a Filipino. God save this nation!

ARMAND PEREZ, 4-1425 West 70th Ave Vancouver (via e-mail)