Yesterday, amidst all those news about Sen. Trillanes, this came up on my news feed. We Filipinos know that inflation is rising since Duterte took office more than two years ago but this is an overwhelming and sad scenario. Why we have come to this, your guess is as good as mine. The ordinary Filipino is finding it hard to make both ends meet.
Imagine, we are the highest in the region. And that lowly poor’s man’s meal galunggong is now being imported. To think we are surrounded by hundreds of islands yet we import fish that came from our own shores. We are an agricultural country and we are importing rice too. Back in the sixties and seventies, we were even teaching how rice should be successfully grown via the International Rice Research Institute. Other Southeast Asian regions have benefited from research and technology but where are we now? Our poor farmers are still struggling.
Going back to this inflation rate, some people think that the higher the percentage is, the more robust is our economy. I say, they don’t even read and understand the news.
Sad Philippines.
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