RP business: People
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
It offends sensibility. It insults decency. It leaves a foul taste in the mouth to know and say that the main, key and continuous business of the Philippine government is people. People for export. People for placement. People for rent. People on loan. People for exchange. Conclusion: Pitiful OFWs. Miserable Filipinos. Disgraced Philippines.
It is people whom the government considers as its big resources and constant business potential. It is people who laboriously support people while the government merrily imposes direct and in direct taxes on them from birth to death. It is people who keep this country economically afloat through OFWs remittances. And it is also people who become victims of corruption and deceit, of criminality and injustice — while the government looks on.
Yet this laid-back and short-sighted government looks at people as its arch-enemy to the point that it is resolved to take recourse to legislating artificial depopulation — under deceitful titles and purposes. It has come to hate births that it endorses male and female mutilations precisely to prevent them for becoming parents. The government looks at the phenomenon of birth as a curse such that it has its mind, eyes and ears closed about recourse even to abortions — through different means and diverse ways..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110731com6.html
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