I cannot believe that there are 3.4 million Filipinos who are hungry and unable to buy their food. This is according to the latest survey done by SWS (Social Weather Stations). This is already the 19% of our population. Our President GMA said that we, the Filipinos, should stop spending too much on things/items that are not needed, instead we should spend our money wisely to be able to have our meal three times a day. Very wise. True, there are Filipinos who rather buy liquor or cigarette than food for their family, or vices such as gambling. However, those people who are hungry are not the ones who can afford extra-expenditures. They are the people who work as farmers, fisher folks, construction workers and other blue-collar jobs. They experience hunger because they cannot afford to buy food not because they are spending their money on useless things.

I'm thinking, if a portion of the $1.3 billion USD earnings of our government from the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) goes to the agriculture and fishery department (or whatever you call it) to improve the production of food, then it will be less costly to buy food and more FIlipinos are able to buy nutritious food.

The government claims that our economy is doing well because of the GRP and so on. But what happens to the real economy? Does the bigger population feel it? The government claims that we have more jobs now--yes, all graduates and even undergraduates go to call centers to work. Their labor rights are never discussed. The government claims that the value of our money, PESO, significantly increased. That's true. But this in not because of our economic boom. This is because the dollar actually depreciates in the world market. Our economy is an OFW economy that's why it's good and getting better. The bad effect though is we are running of intellectual people : doctors, lawyers, nurses and so on. We are left with...the politicians and the businessmen.