Soaring Rice Prices

Soaring Rice Prices

pls read the link before reading this blog.

to start with, this is really unbelievable. Rice is the main food staple we eat. Everyone eats rice. Its hard to imagine anyone not being able to eat rice. But, unfortunately, this nightmare is becoming a reality right before our very eyes. Rice prices have been staggeringly increasing DAILY! i mean how can that be? If you think about it, rice is like the cheapest food we can afford right? But even the simplest and most humble of Filipinos cannot afford to buy rice anymore. Staple rice is sold at P45-P51 pesos, the poorest of our nation cannot afford to buy at this price. Unbelievable isn't it? With the meager wages they earn, rice has become a "delicacy for the rich" in their eyes. Compare the rising prices of rice that increase DAILY, and the wages of Filipinos that do not increase proportionally with the food prices, in either short-term or long-term effects, they will starve and rice will be a far away dream for them. The wages they earn cannot keep up with the frantically changing prices of food that they need to survive. For every 10% increase in food prices, 2.3 million Filipinos fall into poverty. If this keeps going on, every single Filipino will live in poverty without being able to eat the simplest of foods...rice. Some have opted to substitute rice for other crops like corn grits. This may be a viable option, but it cannot give us what rice can give us. We cannot ignore that rice is important for us to live. The government has been producing Genetically Modified Rice and those enhanced ones with more vitamins and stuff, yet they are so highly priced that they do no good because the average Filipino cannot even afford to purchase them. Our nation is being affected not only by the dwindling food supplies, but poverty as well as corruption have been working hand in hand towards the inevitable downfall of our country.The Philippines is one of the biggest if not the biggest importer of rice in the whole world, yet how come we cannot feed our own people?

How Politics can Gravely Affect the Economy

P2-B subsidy to pay for electricity bills

OK so here's what i think about this Operation.
plainly, i think it sucks. ya, sure if you think about it, its actually a good idea...if it were remotely possible to control the influx and outflow of the money involved here. But due to the state of our frail nation, it seems impossible to control this much money, and for what? electricity bills? we could use this money for more grave concerns affecting our nation. First of all, the money's outflow. How can we be sure that every cent goes to its respective recipient right? With all the corruption polluting our country, surely half and hopefully not all of it will go to the pockets of those greedy, corrupt individuals we all look up to to take care of us and manage our country..these so called "figures of authorities". Looking for a righteous and honest leader is like looking for a needle in a haystack in our country. Only a few lucky ones will be able to receive the actual help intended by this operation. And where did the government get this money? think about it, almost everyone is involved in illegal moneymaking businesses..what will excuse these authority figureheads from this accusation when they are freely exploiting there control of power? Secondly, the reason of use for this Php2billion. Electricity bills? i mean cmon, there are more dire situations that need the attention of this much money. Situations that greatly affect our country, like food productivity, the economic progress of our country, birthrate and deathrate, natural calamities and scientific advances. Ya sure the electricity bills are important, but it wouldn't get to a point that worse if the people and especially the government weren't making fools of themselves. We need to think critically and about others. We need to work together to fix our country. Stop wasting time on ineffectual ideals when we could work on more prolific schemes

a brief background

a brief background on Philippine politics.

First, let me define politics. Politics is a process of decision making. Here in the Philippines, we follow a democratic system. The word Democracy come from the Greek words "demos" meaning people and "kratos" meaning rule. Democratic means the majority rule, but the minority is not disregarded. I believe that this is only the beginning of our topic since we will talk about politics.

team blog (05/27/08)

members: migs rivera, paolo gallardo, lee jae hyun, jung eujin, ha hee jung.