Poverty in the Philippines

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-Does-Poverty-Persist-in-the-Philippines?&id=5892409

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My Reaction

              Poverty causes many lives to be broken. Money, is what most people need and want. Full or lack of money sometimes is the cause of evil or destruction. For my family to be escaped from poverty my parents need to go abroad just to feed us. We may be fortunate in material things but not in other things because as of now my family is not in good condition. 

              Poverty causes people to strive hard just to escape from poverty. Because also of poverty, some people knows how to be contented in what they have and sometimes uses it as their inspiration to be successful and achieve many things in life. My family is not in good condition and sometimes how I wish that we are only poor yet happy and contented in life but still I am thankful because I can see how much they love us and sacrifice many things just to provide all our needs and even wants. Poverty makes other people move- to have what they need and want. Poverty can only resolve if the people living in it will unite and help each other and when the government will stop thinking only about their selves but for the people they are serving.  

             Poverty causes many lives and dreams to be broken. In the Philippines, I believe that we are undergoing poverty because of corruption and laziness of some people. People should not blame everything to the government(leader) but also to the some people living (followers) in it because the people are the ones who can make the country progressive or fall down. Because of poverty, people are forced to do evil things just to make their living well. Other government officials only thinks for their own and want to have a life that is abundant, a life that is abundant with material things.  There are lots of children and adult I can see in the street begging for money and in my mind saying the government should do something about it. Money cannot make people happy and contented in life only in God we can find true contentment.

Philippines Worried About Rice Shortages

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/world/asia/26phils.html?_r=1

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My Reaction

 

We all know that one of the basic needs of people is food. I guess we Filipino people cannot live eating bread alone in the whole day. Sometimes even in our merienda time we eat rice and that is how we Filipino people love rice. My mom used to eat bread or pasta because she is working abroad and adopted their lifestyle there. I remember once that she told me that I should not eat rice all the time but I said that this is Philippines and we are used to and loved to eat rice. 

People can only see the value and worth of things when they are gone. Even though the Philippines are one of the countries who produce good quantity and quality of rice, we had still encounter shortage of it for we cannot determine what may happen in the future. Because of the shortage of rice people were forced to buy NFA rice, which is cheaper but not a good quality of rice. For me it doesn’t matter if the rice is cheap and not good quality the most important is we have something to eat and people start to know the importance of rice. People realized, even I that we should stop wasting food.  But at least we can see that the government is doing something for the people and to solve the crisis that happened in the Philippines. The government must think not only for their selves or for their own interest but for the people they are serving especially when a crisis like this is happening in our country. 

Because of the crisis of rice, the government needs to import rice, so the rice went so high. It was very expensive for the poor people or for the people who has less income to buy rice that cost 40 and up peso. The rise increased almost half of its price. The fertilizer and oil price increased also but the wages is still the same. So it was very difficult for the poor people to deal with that problem.  Others can eat at least 2 or 3 times a day but because there was increases of the price of rice maybe other people eat once a day or worst cannot eat in a day

Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, and stay :)