MOIST
End fuelling up
Just about every day of our lives in this country, we are spooked by fuel price increase. The Oil Deregulation Law must be blamed about it. But this is not the one I stand for with "end fuelling up." It is about how we retort to news. When we watch news on TV about the awful events in politics, we resort to censure the one who is in supremacy. The Philippines is not just an undersized corporation but it is a state. It is large, above and beyond, to run. The country has been suffering from countless predicaments and sometimes taking it to its improved order is complex to do. Fairly, it becomes an initiative hard to ensue in our times.
Our reaction to some unfounded, opinionated chitchats turns up the pitch on the political crisis in the Philippines. This fuels up the crisis. Our government is almost unpromising to do its projects for the people. But those people who have power to manipulate opinion make the situation shoddier. This makes our nation state a showground of misunderstanding and sabotage. Our neighbors are just observing how we float our vessel.
The current government has allocated one billion pesos for its anti-corruption drive. Many politicians have given their position towards the move: "the administration has no political will to come to blows graft." Er--let's observe. After all this is a fine effort from the government. It has no bad outcome to us lest it is put into action.
And don't we consider that it would be unreasonable if we always revile the government when it is doing its task to the people. The Arroyo government has made the economy in any case do well: the tourism is fair enough and foreign investors are coming in. Ousting her will make this country pull through again for another long years as gradually investors' confidence has been recaptured.
Well, obviously we recognize that the political catastrophe is far-off from settled. There is a wide-ranging mood that the country has entered an interlude of a burdened political deadlock: Mrs. Arroyo's antagonists maintain she has lost the ethical and the political say-so to administrate--that is because Philippine politics is exceedingly fragmented or polarized. How one sees the president has developed into the sole most essential concern, rising above established ideological and supporter loyalty. Government officials, military people, churches, the business society, educators, students, and families are at odds.
But we, Filipinos, have learned our lesson. Few of us would dispute at the moment that the two earlier uprisings led to an upgrading of the quality of our lives. Many of us would even say our condition has worsened--yet at this time it is starting to make out glow, as the efforts and schemes of the government are not beyond question thus far. Anyway, if something goes off she is the one conscientious for its flop. And maybe that is the point we blow up.
Well, the most important thing is that even how many voted officials or businessmen or church leaders have been fuelling up our sentiment we do not demonstrate any proclivity to go to the streets. The propensity to view through rose-tinted glasses all the rage protests of the past has just got us excruciating frustration--remember? Don't be brought into play by people who care for the masses only all through the time their interests are up for grabs. Don't be fuelled up--and end fuelling up: save this drowning nation!
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