Blaming poverty
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
Poor poverty — it has always been an excuse or the blame for anything unpleasant that comes up in this country. This administration’s singing tale speaks of the lame justification that the executed drug mules did it because of dire poverty; in fact, most of the couriers who daringly smuggle almost anything illegal from drugs to watches to and fro our Customs queues are all singing the same tune. Even the “pick up girls” — street prostitutes when apprehended by fickle-minded marauding police officers would sing out the same, “Wala po kaming alam na ibang trabaho” (This is the only job we know), which of course is simply pathetic and stupid.
We grew up in a community and family where poverty is defined not by lack but by the meager possessions we have, particularly human resource. Wealth is confined to having more children who could help out plant and farm in order to at least live decently and pursue little dreams. And therefore anything bigger than our dreams belongs to God’s graciousness and generosity, not to purely human mundane ambition. It is even divine intervention that gives out opportunities and “breaks..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110403com6.html
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