I AM no fan of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who I would like to see out of office sooner rather than later, but I do not  understand how some Filipinos seem to rejoice at the misery of their poor countrymen by quoting poverty figures out of context.

If the number of Filipinos living on $1 a day is true, then I would expect to read thousands of my countrymen dying of hunger everyday.

A Filipino living on $1 a day in the countryside may be better fed than his urban counterpart making $5 a day. A rural resident may not even have a peso in his pocket but he could have adequate sustenance from what the land provides.

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