Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Here is an interesting comment from one reader. He makes a lot of sense. Don't you agree?
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These bishops can't say anything sensible nowadays.
BISHOPS SAID, ‘RH BILL IS AN OPEN WAR AGAINST THE CHURCH’. YOU ARE SO NARROW-MINDED BISHOPS. THIS IS AN OPEN WAR AGAINST POVERTY, NOT AGAINST ANY INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONS OR ENTITIES.’
It looks like that your mind is blanketed with insecurities that every time the government comes up with sensible steps towards alleviating poverty, you think, it is a step against you. You can be compared to an insecure wife who has to question where her husband is going every time he steps out of the door.
You better study economics bishops before you say faster growth population translates to a booming economy. It depends on the situation and surely, your statement does not apply to the Philippine conditions at all at the present time.
The Philippines is a very small country with very large population, one of the highest in the world with very limited resources. We are a third world country, which relies on economic aid from other countries and the OFW. Our educational system is one of the worst in the world and the schools that provide satisfactory education are Catholic schools like the Ateneo, De la Salle, UST that impose fees far beyond the reach of the lowly Juan dela Cruz. If you, bishops, would try to lift your little finger alleviate the burden of high tuition fees so that students from the most impoverished areas could attend such schools, then I would support you.
Go to squatter areas. Go to the provinces. Go to remotest barangays. You will see NOTHING but numerous barefooted, half–naked to naked children playing in the streets, walloping in poverty. Is this what you want? To see nothing but poverty?
The present economic conditions need immediate and hard–line solutions. Chief of them is to reduce the population growth that is projected to reach unmanageable proportions in few years to come. This is a long–term solution that has been studied and recommended by economists and experts long before Pnoy's administration came into being because of limited and dwindling resources. And yet, here you are talking garbage, not offering any help to alleviate poverty.
You are becoming this nation's biggest problem, worse than corrupt politicians, the Abu Sayyaf and the NPA combined. Pnoy is doing the best he could to see a progressive country, but it is a pity that he has to hurdle the biggest obstacle to succeed – you, the bishops.
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