Band-aid solution
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
Band-aids are little strips of tapes with a little gauze placed on little wounds hopefully to cause some cure. Needles to say, their key reality feature is “little.” It is little in size and coverage, little in scope and finality.
Band-aids wherefore are irrelevant and futile for big wounds with big bad implications and big ill consequences. In the day-to-day life of a people wrestling with so many and immense socio-economic problems, “Band-Aid Solutions” thereto are not simply vanity but downright inanity. Even elementary reason says that solutions should be at par with the nature and import of the problems crying for pursuant attention and action.
The Philippines is facing the national predicament of well regulated salaries and somehow regulated basic commodity prices vis-à-vis actually deregulated oil prices. The Filipinos find it harder to find work and/or employment but infallibly pay indirect taxes from birth to death. There are more and more hungry and desperate people in the country. There are wherefore more and more dissatisfaction and anger that make them march in the streets, hold rallies, show their dismay and shout their protests. There are wherefore understandably more and more spirited groups of citizens with different vision-missions but with one and the same cause, viz., alienation from the present national leadership and bed-fellows..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110426com6.html
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