Ranting About Reform in RP

Ranting About Reform in RP

I remember when I was a child, I was asked if I wanted to live in the United States. And it wasn't just a question that was casually thrown at me like a set of spare keys. The thought of leaving my friends was just too much for me to handle. It was something that was decided upon the moment I was asked that question. Of course, I had no capacity for thinking about the future. What was there to think about. The Philippines was a wonderful place to live in during those times. At least in the environment that I lived in. I was brought up in a subdivision where I had a lot of friends and I thought that everything that I would need would be provided by my country.

It only takes a few years of working here to finally understand how flawed that argument was.

I am not ashamed of my stature here but I am deeply concerned about how deplorable our situation is right now. Put a Filipino nurse in let's say, PGH and put another one in the United States or let's say Canada. All else being equal, the one living in the U.S. will surely experience greater financial freedom.

Ceteris paribus, the grass is always greener at the Western side. It is something that we've learned to live with for the past century because our economic state has gradually declined so much you'd think the Philippines was damned.

I'd like to be able to suggest something that would at least take us a step closer to reform. I'd like to but I can't. Because I honestly don't know where to begin. We're [the Philippines] so deep into our hangups that we really can't sit down and focus on one thing because everything else that we would be ignoring needs as much attention.

Whoever has an inkling of how we should go about turning this country around, by all means, shout it out.