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     There’s a sayng, "The grass is much greener on the other side of the fence." But if everyone in the world thought that they could find better places over the "fences" and suceeded in scaling that fence onto the other side, won’t it all be just a weird game of "bilog-bilugan?" The "Ginebra" commercial did say "bilog ang mundo" (The earth is round) so if everybody went over the fence the last person would end up in the first person’s backyard.

     So the question of the century is, why can’t people just be content with what they have and be thankful they they aren’t faring worse? I understand wanting to have something better, if for example you live in Payatas, or in some squatter’s area. But hello, if you’re living in a two story house, studying college and having three meals a day, then you’re faring much better than 50% of the 86 million Filipinos out there.

     And what’s up with those people who want President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign? The Philippines is enjoying a 51.50 peso to dollar excahnge, hellloooo!? I know it sounds shallow and unknowledgable. And I’m not going to pretend that I know everything about politics or the economy. But people who keep rallying and mobilizing are just worsening the situation. That’s why there is a thing such as due process, people who thought up those two words weren’t kidding when they put it in the constitution. Its not just some optional thing that gets trashed everytime a group of people wants it to.

     Imagine during the time of Estrada, inflation rate was fatter than an obese woman gorging on 2 kilograms of chocolate a day, the exchange rate reached a whopping 59.75, at least as far as I can remember, and there was our president getting fat and stuffing his arteries in a million dollar yatch bought by people’s taxes.

     During the time of Ramos, and what I mean by that is before Estrada became president, I still remember the peso-dollar exchange rate to be somewhat of 26 pesos to a dollar, almost half of what it is now. Even if the millions of impoverished people who support him came down here to my house and tried to kill me, I wont take back the fact that I think Joseph Ejercito-Estrada was the worst thing that’s happened to our country since the Japanese came.

     Enough about Estrada, back to Arroyo, she is an economist, she knows what she’s doing, isn’t that enough? And if all the coups and the destabilization plots and the rallies would just stop, I can almost assure that this country would be running as smoothly as a brand new car except it won’t rust as time goes by. Why, because the rust that is the politicians of this country, who have nothing in mind but the amount of payback they’ll get when they’re in office, will be non-existent.

    Haay I was going to write something heartwarming and maybe something about how my life sucks, but, well I’ll save that for later na lang.

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