The job creation Gloria Arroyo, Bragging about is to sell every filipino people to the highest bidder.

Its the filipino people fault for believing all her lies, Its your fault for believing her when she already proving herself to be the number one liar.

Its the filipino people fault for letting her get away with anything. Its the filipino people fault for letting her stay into her stolen power! So, Whatever you’re getting you all deserve it.

the ofw phenomenon has been going on for several decades now. if you want to leave, then leave. but please spare us from your sad stories that nothing can be expected to improve (i’ve heard it before during the martial law years… your arguments are just variations of excuses why you must leave - corruption, weak peso, weak dollar, peace and order, etc).

if you wish to go, then go… no need to justify yourself

Seriously. It’s around two and a half years before election time kicks off. And hopefully with automated polls. It’s time people settled with GMA as their president, after all, she’ll be replaced in due time.

As for OFWs, well, if you can’t succeed here, it’s pretty much your fault. I see tons of classified ads for jobs, so really, there are jobs to be found, but probably nobody to fill them.

And anyway, if you’re gonna work abroad, please, bring your family over there, don’t leave them here, it promotes bad family values and they just end up spending your hard-earned money on something stupid. I think all the tambays are funded by OFW money, they never work since somebody working overseas gives them money for liquor.

Much has been said about the dollar pulling down its value in the weighing scale of Supply and Demand of currency. Ironically, the OFWs are being pinpointed as the ones pulling down the value of their remittances.

How about the dollars that come in through new international loans on behalf of an inter-generational Filipino people? How transparent are the entry and proceeds of these loans?

No matter what is said about the unemployment rate getting lower (agri sector included or not), looking at all the incomeless people around tells the story of job options in the country being scarce. I know first hand of an OFW who recently left for a $2,500 job in the Middle East. Just about P2,000 over the local minimum wage. If there was an P8k job for him here, would he borrow money for travel processing and settle for a P10k job and stay away from his family?

But that’s what the data says - unemployment is healing. Data also says that the economy is getting better and the fight against poverty is gaining ground despite the absence of nutritious food on the table. Are these impressive data meant to further window-dress the country’s situation to be able to borrow more dollars from foreign sources? This avenue has yet to surface to the eyes of scrutiny.

I could live with a weaker dollar. It’s all part of the dynamics of the world economy cycle. What gets my goat is when this administration trumpets the weakening of the dollar as a sign of an improving Philippine economy - as if a higher peso to dollar ratio is something to crow about; and as if they have something to do about it. The fact is, the peso is not doing very good, it’s just that the dollar is doing badly, partly because OFWs are flooding the local market with dollars. The fact is, it is happening not because of them but despite of them. I have no economics background to flaunt beyond Econ. 101 but I know that when a currency is said to have become stronger, it means that it has appreciated in value and thus, it could buy more goods and services. Yes, the peso today could buy more dollars – from 1/51 last year to 1/41 today, but so what? Logic tells me that when the peso has been made stronger, as they so very often take credit for, then it means that they have improved its purchasing power. Then, OFW’s like me would not be bothered by a lower exchange rate simply because what was lost due to a lower exchange rate would have been compensated for by a higher purchasing power. But irony of ironies, the peso could even buy significantly less now that it is 1/41 to the dollar than when it was 1/51! And they have the nerve to call that an economic miracle? Why can’t this dispensation wait for others to pat them in the back? They seem to be so insecure that they would take every opportunity to wallow in delusional self-praise, even if their claimed achievement is clearly a blatant lie. Magbolahan kayo at magtampisaw sa kasinungalingan… diyan lang naman talaga kayo magaling.

mbm, di ko alam kung saan mo kinuha yong data mo para sa minimum wage. $2500 at P41 to the dollar is still P102,500. Are you saying that the minimum wage earners in the philippines are earning more than a hundred thousand pesos a month or almost P4000/day? Aw camon! dapat nga na diyan ka na lang, kakahiya ang ritmetik skills mo para isabak sa abroad.

kayana2

what would be the ramification if OFW send their remittance all in pesos?

for example;

if you have euros or dinars, change it to pesos, then send pesos back to phil. your euros or dinars will have more values vs pesos where is at than when it goes to phil banking system.

i wonder if foreign banks hold large amount of pesos in their depositary?
is phil peso has value in overseas foreign exchange market?

i guess phil banking system is experiencing a glut of dollars in their coffers. somebody did mentioned supply and demand.

there are billions of dollars coming in to phil banking system courtesy of OFW, dollars that the phil. banks are not buying from the foreign exchange system. no middle men here is involve, mind you.

just atought.

Sorry $250 pala

Reinier Abdon

Seriously. It’s around two and a half years before election time kicks off. And hopefully with automated polls. It’s time people settled with GMA as their president, after all, she’ll be replaced in due time.

As for OFWs, well, if you can’t succeed here, it’s pretty much your fault. I see tons of classified ads for jobs, so really, there are jobs to be found, but probably nobody to fill them.

And anyway, if you’re gonna work abroad, please, bring your family over there, don’t leave them here, it promotes bad family values and they just end up spending your hard-earned money on something stupid. I think all the tambays are funded by OFW money, they never work since somebody working overseas gives them money for liquor.

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Well, first you’re wrong! You don’t have the rights to blame us OFW’s if we don’t want to work there.

Di dahil sa walang trabaho o walang opportunity dyan sa Pinas, Kung di, dahil sa malaki ang kikitain mo dito sa abroad. Yung 8 months na kikitain ko dyan e dito 1 month lang. Mas natutulungan ko pa ang mga magulang ko.
Kung pagkasira nang pamilya ang nagiging problema, e nasa mga tao na yan. kahit dyan ka pa sa Pinas e kung lolokohin ka talaga ng Misis o Mister mo e walang ka pa ring magagawa. Kung nagiging pariwara naman ang buhay ng anak mo e nasa guidance ng mga magulang yan. E ang marami ngang naandyan ang magulang pero sira pa rin ang buhay ng mga anak. High-tech na ngayon at marami ng paraan para maging continuos ang communication sa pamilya.

At kung mahina man ang dolyar e ano pa ba ang magagawa namin,e worldwide effect po yun, at maskakayanin naman namin yun kesa sa umasa kami sa masmaliit na kikitain namin dyan.

At kung iniisip mo na binubuhay lang ng OFW ang mga tambay, eh mas lalong mali ka dyan. Nandiyan man kami o wala e tambay parin yang mga yan. Hihingi at hihingi pa rin yan sa kamag-anak nilang nagtra-trabaho para sa kanila.

Please pag-isipan mo muna ang mga sinasabi mo bago ka magkomento!

Struggling for a stronger peso is one of the reasons why the country cannot improve its productivity. We should rather seek for a competitive pesos, meaning devalued currency that will boost our domestic production for international market.

wala po tayong magagawa na sa ngayon kung bumaba man ang palitan ng dolyares sa peso natin.

pero ang masama lamang kasi, pinapalabas ng gobyerno ni gloria na tumataas ang ekonomiya ng ating bansa, ngunit ang katotohanan ay hindi nman. Sapagkat kung inyong titingnan, ang mga presyo ng bilihin ay lalo pang tumaas pati na ang langis.

isa sa mga kadahilanan ng pagbaba ng US dollar ay ang pagbagsak ng ekonomiya ng amerika. sa ngayon sila ay may problema sa ekonomiya nila., kung kaya’t ng dolyares ay bumaba ang purchasing power ……………………………………………………………….

pero hindi po dahil sa kagagawan ng gobyerno natin na walang ginawa kung hindi lalong pahirapan ang ating mga kababayan.

Surely the US dollar value to peso will continue to go down following the supply & demand law. Beginning 2004 December, I regularly remit a thousand dollar per month to my family for their 55kphp expense. But since 2006, dollar value started to slide down. I was hoping that expense would go down as well but no; my remittance started to go up to maintain my family expense level. This scenario would continue unless the dollar value would improve and the economists in RP would start to implement drastic measures (now). I could read their plans in the Inquirer website to solve the problem, but there is no concrete move as yet. In fact I could say that they are all ’sleeping in the pansitan’. This remittance increase started many years ago and yet no laws/policies done to counteract its bad effects. We are 4th in the world on sending money home. What India, Pakistan, Mexico doing since they are the top three? Surely the dollar value will go down. Surely we OFW will send more dollars. Nasaan ang mga matatalino sa RP?

First of all, what job is it which should pay 2500 Dollar a month to OFWs? Common employees in Middle East still earn rather 500 Dollar or less.
The government now wants to “help” OFWs with what they call high yielding deposits. What an stupidity! If an OFW can not create enough Pesos anymore with his salary for to support his family, which money he should then deposit long term? It’s all a new ploy to get, as proposed, 500 to 1000 million dollars deposited yearly that the government can use.
The whole blabla about market forces rising the Peso is just a plain lie. The government wants a low Dollar for to impress World Bank and IMF with prematurely repaying loans, and then to get new loans with long terms so that repayment is up to future administrations. That’s why frequently statements are fueled to media about more and more rise of the Peso. It is a plain invitation to speculants to bring in Dollars for Pesos in the hope later to buy more Dollars for the Pesos bought now. This gives government and Central Bank the opportunity to blame oversupply as reason for the weaker Dollar. RP is the only country where nothing is done to prevent the own currency from becoming too expensive. RP government does not a bit care for OFWs in reality, all the promises are just hot air. They want a rising Peso at all costs, then telling it is because of the excellent philippine economy.
There is the strong republic, which in fact is so weak that any single person who is expressing his or her grievances is already declared destabilizer.
And there is the strong Peso which never before had a weaker purchase power than now. Look at the permanent increasing prices, no matter the good is locally produced or imported on Dollar basis and therefore should be much cheaper now in “strong Pesos”.
On a rate around 40 to the dollar, RP becomes one of the most expensive places for investors and of course for tourists, at the same time also for buyers of Philippine goods. But that does not much matter to the government.
For OFWs, remitting Pesos instead of Dollars could really change the situation, but probably the government would prohibit or limit it very soon since it would weaken the Peso in favor of OFW remittances but contrary to what the government wants. And this will always top anything else, no matter how good and correct it might be. Maybe the super economists of the government think, poor people have now strong Pesos so they can easier make vacation in USA….

I have been away from the Phil. for 23 years. After one year abroad i brought my girlfriend with me and mary her. My company give me a round trip ticket and one month vacation to the Phil. every year so i can visit my relatives. After these years working overseas there’s no such good feeling as going back home and settled for good. Call it home sweet home and i hope our leaders who are elected by the people will focus their minds in serving the country and not in corruption. After working and go home to your family and relax, listen news from the Phil. its anoying that all hear are about the corruptions of government officials including the closest relatives of the president.

the best thing for us OFWs is to unite under one umbrella organization - it is only in numbers that we can get this government to listen to our plight.

kaso nga, even abroad, feudalistic pa rin ang character natin - at alam ng mga namumuno sa gobyerno ang ganong sistema…..kaya wala silang pakialam, magtatalak man ang bawat pinoy sa kahit anong sulok ng mundo….hindi nila ito pakikinggan - dahil wala ngang pagkakaisa ang mga pinoy.

if we have one umbrella organization, ay !kaydali natin mapapapayag ang gobyerno sa ating demands, ka indo.

rising prices ? very low exchange rate ? corruption ? kaya natin solusyunan yan, basta iisa lang ang boses ng OFWs.

pero kelan nga ba tayo puedeng magkaisa ? 8 milyon nasa abroad , mga 40 million katao ang hakot natin kung isasama natin ang ating mga pamilya sa iisang adhikain.

kelan nga ba ?

Reinier Abdon

Seriously. It’s around two and a half years before election time kicks off. And hopefully with automated polls. It’s time people settled with GMA as their president, after all, she’ll be replaced in due time.

As for OFWs, well, if you can’t succeed here, it’s pretty much your fault. I see tons of classified ads for jobs, so really, there are jobs to be found, but probably nobody to fill them.

And anyway, if you’re gonna work abroad, please, bring your family over there, don’t leave them here, it promotes bad family values and they just end up spending your hard-earned money on something stupid. I think all the tambays are funded by OFW money, they never work since somebody working overseas gives them money for liquor.

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Sino ba ang tinutukoy mong nag-succeed diyan? Mabibilang sa daliri ang mga taong umunlad diyan ng dahil sa malinis na pagsisikap. Mga qualified and sought-after doctors nga e gusto pang umalis, ako pa kaya na ordinaryong manggagawa. Karamihan ng mayaman diyan mga buwayang politico, jueting operators/protectors, drug lords, smugglers, kidnappers, tax evaders, usurers, grafters, customs employees, etc, etc.. Sana di ka kabilang sa kanila. Seguro kung kasing husay at tapang ako ni Pacquiao yayaman ako at di ko na kailangan mag abroad.

Pero tama ka nga seguro. madaming job ads sa diyaryo. Last time na nag basa ako ang daming “wanted maid/yaya/cook. mataas sweldo, mabait amo”, “wanted decent college girls for escorting service”, “wanted sauna attendants”, “wanted driver cum security guard cum houseboy”. Yan ba ang tons of opportunities na sinasabi mo? At least dito sa saudi, crane operator lang ako pero sumusweldo ng maayos. Pag diyan, kailangan ko segurong sumali sa Hold-Up gang para kumita ng kapantay ng kinikita ko dito. So, masisisi mo ba kami kabayan na isnabin ang mga sinasabi mong job ads?

At huwag kang mag-alala sa mga naiwan ko diyan. Sa awa ng diyos, matitinong naga-aral ang mga anak ko sa pamamahala ng uliran kong asawa at sa pamamagitan ng bukas na komunikasyon namin sa internet. At talagang aalis kaming mag-anak patungong canada. Babalik na lang kami kung natauhan na yong mga taong katulad mo na pilit nagkukunwaring maayos ang lahat sa patakbo ni Gloria. Tao ang gumagawa ng kapalaran niya. At dito sa abroad ko nakikita ang mas malaking tiyansang makamit namin yon. Ikaw din, baka mahuli ka.

Reinier Abdon - obviously hindi mo nauunawaan ang kasabihan na “for evil to triumph, good men must do nothing”.

Ito ang sanhi ng di pag-unlad ng ating bayan at sya ring dahilan ng pananalanta ng mga salot at linta sa lipunan.

Kung hihintayin mo pa ang 2010 para mapalitan si GMA, baka duguin na at patay na lahat ang lugmok na mamamayan.

maraming trabaho saan? kagaya ng sinabi ni sonafagun, yaya at bantay! Overqualified ang karamihan para dyan. Sayo Reiner siguro applicabble na maging security guard lang e talagang maraming “jobs” sa pinas.

Mag-isip ka kabayan!

The dollar is weak dahil ang US has huge deficits and debts may crisis sila sa pinansya due to subprime. Kaya malakas ang peso dahil mahina ang dolar.

70’s pa lang dami kong kakilala ang nagabroad - until today. Sari saring dahilan - kanya kanyang dahilan. Marami ang yumaman sa abroad, marami din ang yumayaman dito.

Hindi lang Pinoy ang nag-aabroad para maghanap ng trabaho, india, china, japan,korea, kahit mga kano o british man. Hindi lang kasing dami sa Pinoy. Dahil cguro sa kultura o economiya o lakas ng loob.

Maraming kano gustong magbakasyon at magabroad pero takot o wlang pera o wlang makitang trabaho sa ibang bansa.

Tama na tirahan ng tirahan. Unawain nalang natin at tulungan, at simulan baguhin ang bansa sa anumang paraan kaya natin.

Pakiusap lang ho. Kung magkukumento kayo gamit ang salitang Ingles, galingan n’yo naman.

Nakakainis kasing basahin kung balu-baluktot ang mga pangungusap. At saka, mga Pilipino naman tayo di ba?

Reinier Abdon at mbm…. cge nga hanap nyo ako work as telecom engr dyan sa pinas… sweldo ko dito is 6500 USD/month.. tax free pa… cguro khit sr. manager ng malalaking telecom company dyan ay di pwedeng pantayan kita ko dito… get’s nyo?

to sonofagun

Have you ever worked abroad or just tried to do it? Then you should know that maybe one of thousand jobs would allow to bring the family. Even then, do you think it would be a good time for the family to stay at a place where they know nothing, do not speak the language, where phil. education is not recognized etc., aside from the problem that mostly the salary would not be enough for to maintain a family abroad.
Imagine a salary of 500 Dollar, a common salary, which is good for the Philippines (at least before the Peso became so stupid overvalued) but by far not enough for living with a family abroad. Often it would not even cover the rental of house or flat. Not to mention that, for instance, a christian family in middle east where most OFWs work, would have to live like in a prison, always in danger to land in jail for doing something which is not allowed by law or islam religion. How a Filipina would feel in Saudi Arabia if she is not even allowed to claim her mail at the post office because she has not the right to approach a male?

And the tons of ads for jobs, yes they are there. But very few of the OFWs would match the requirements since most offered jobs are hi-tech or at least need a four years college degree. Even for rather simple jobs. That is, because in RP there is no apprenticeship for to become a professional, only college where usually 90% is only theory while an apprentice, like in Europe, has 3 to 4 years practical knowledge plus the theory in labor schools. This makes, that at the end all apprentices have the same practical and theoretical knowledge since the whole system is following a government standard.
Here in RP, easy one could be refused with his or her diploma because not all colleges have the same reputation.
Therefore, even tons of job ads can not give jobs to those who most need it, the poor that could not afford an education at a prestigious college.

as they say bad news sa ofw’s dahil bumaba ang dollar.

but what can we do, kung wala namang trabaho sa pinas. wala rin. buti pa dito sa abroad may trabaho, at least kung di man 50times ang value ng dollar, 40X naman, malaki pa rin, compare sa ating local pinoy workers sa pinas.

nothing to worry, and nothing will change.
work is still in abroad. as long as there is demand for pinoy workers, then it is better to work abroad.

at least, sakay sa eroplano, steak ang kain at imported goods para sa kamag-anak.

weak dollar, no worry.

para sa mga pinoy sa abroad at at dyan sa atin sa pinas.matagal na akong nagtrabaho sa abroad pero ngayon lang ako nakadanas ng matinding hirap dahil sa pagbaba ng currency conversion ng peso.dati malaking halaga ang darating sa pamilya,pero ngayon kunti na lang.kapos lagi ang kanilang pang konsumo at gastusin sa pagaaral,lalo na nagtaasn ang m=lahat ng bilihin.ano ba tlaga ito.hanggang kailan ang paghihirap ng ating bayan.sabagay maraming hindi naghihirap.sabi nga nila yong mga buwaya ay sagana ang pamilya,mga sindikato,hold uppers,mga taong gumagawa ng illegal ay busog na busog ang kanilang pamilya.pag nasa maayos na paraan ang kabuhayan mo talagang ang pamilya mo ay araw araw gutom.

I’ve been out of the country for 14 yrs. Every couple of years, I come home to be with my parents and relatives. Everytime I am in the airport, I encountered airport employees who were so rude and greedy. They even yell and disrespect travellers. Is this one way of showing credits to OFWs who keep on pumping billions of dollars to the gov’t.? I am really upset about this? NAIA is the worst airport I’ve ever been. It has the most number of employees ever that most are doing nothing except begging for pasalubong. What a shame?

Lito Gutierrez
I have been away from the Phil. for 23 years. After one year abroad i brought my girlfriend with me and mary her. My company give me a round trip ticket and one month vacation to the Phil. every year so i can visit my relatives. After these years working overseas there’s no such good feeling as going back home and settled for good. Call it home sweet home and i hope our leaders who are elected by the people will focus their minds in serving the country and not in corruption. After working and go home to your family and relax, listen news from the Phil. its anoying that all hear are about the corruptions of government officials including the closest relatives of the president.
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Lito: You’re one of the lucky filipino people who have a chance to work abroad. While some of unlucky filipino people going to sleep hungry because of the corruption that has been going on in the Philippines. Things is not going to get better, In fact it well get worse. So, count your blessing!

orli
Struggling for a stronger peso is one of the reasons why the country cannot improve its productivity. We should rather seek for a competitive pesos, meaning devalued currency that will boost our domestic production for international market.

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That will never happen for as long as Gloria Arroyo, The one in power!

kayana2
kayana2

what would be the ramification if OFW send their remittance all in pesos?

for example;

if you have euros or dinars, change it to pesos, then send pesos back to phil. your euros or dinars will have more values vs pesos where is at than when it goes to phil banking system.

i wonder if foreign banks hold large amount of pesos in their depositary?
is phil peso has value in overseas foreign exchange market?

i guess phil banking system is experiencing a glut of dollars in their coffers. somebody did mentioned supply and demand.

there are billions of dollars coming in to phil banking system courtesy of OFW, dollars that the phil. banks are not buying from the foreign exchange system. no middle men here is involve, mind you.

just atought.
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I’ve try all sort of money remittance to send back home. Yes! you have the choice if you want to send it dollar/peso. Its also depend where you are going to send it. If you send by Money grams The charge are high. If you send by Peso, The exchange rate are very low. So either way you lose out. The best way is save your money, When the money exchange go up send money. Period.

kaguang mo, libre naman dyan pre! ahehe
kung 6.5K ang sweldo mo, makakauwi ka na siguro kasi laki ng chance makapag ipon..

ofws, mga parekoy, invest nyo na lang mga dollars ninyo para ma hedge ang paglakas ng piso.. mag aral ng personal finance at investing.. 5 yr tax free time deposit pwede na yan sa mga risk averse. pramis!!!

on a different note, isipin nyo na lang na sacrifice kayo ngayon (lunukin ang social costs ng pang iibang bansa) para ang mga anak nyo indi na kailangan mang ibang bansa at iwan ang kanilang pamilya.
oh ano? ang sarap ng pakiramdam kung ganito ang pananaw nyo sa buhay di ba? ang makatulong sa inyong mga anak. sa dadi ko, padala ka pa dollars! hehe jk.

bigyan nyo sila ng malaking mana at tamang pananaw/attitude sa buhay. wag nyo hayaan maging dependent mashado. explain nyo sa kanila ang hirap ng sitwasyon nyo.

at meron naman dsl di ba, para magkakita kita kau. nakakabawas ng pagka miss.. yun nga lang, nakakadagdag sa pang gigigil kay misis. wink wink! hehehehhee

hi nga pala sa lahat ng natbanat!!! inamoy ser!

first, we all have to thank the ofws for the sacrifices they have to make for their families back home.

to arnel….thank you for your sincere and no-nonsense observations/opinion.
and when you wrote”tama na ang tirahan nang tirahan”, you sent an emotional appeal to all.

someone wrote about hiring a financial consultant to help the ofws on how to invest their money, that’s a very good move.

JOEY P
I’ve been out of the country for 14 yrs. Every couple of years, I come home to be with my parents and relatives. Everytime I am in the airport, I encountered airport employees who were so rude and greedy. They even yell and disrespect travellers. Is this one way of showing credits to OFWs who keep on pumping billions of dollars to the gov’t.? I am really upset about this? NAIA is the worst airport I’ve ever been. It has the most number of employees ever that most are doing nothing except begging for pasalubong. What a shame?
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I know what you mean. Don’t give them any! But the only problem with that is, If you don’t give they can hold you in the airport for a long time. Its happen to me. So, Now I don’t take luggage with me when I go home so that they can’t hold me in the airport. Ha ha. Utakan lang!

arnel
The dollar is weak dahil ang US has huge deficits and debts may crisis sila sa pinansya due to subprime. Kaya malakas ang peso dahil mahina ang dolar.
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tama ka! But not according to Gloria Arroyo, She said that the reason the Peso is strong because of her booming economy. Anybody believe her must be really out of their mind.
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70’s pa lang dami kong kakilala ang nagabroad - until today. Sari saring dahilan - kanya kanyang dahilan. Marami ang yumaman sa abroad, marami din ang yumayaman dito.

Hindi lang Pinoy ang nag-aabroad para maghanap ng trabaho, india, china, japan,korea, kahit mga kano o british man. Hindi lang kasing dami sa Pinoy. Dahil cguro sa kultura o economiya o lakas ng loob.

Maraming kano gustong magbakasyon at magabroad pero takot o wlang pera o wlang makitang trabaho sa ibang bansa.

Tama na tirahan ng tirahan. Unawain nalang natin at tulungan, at simulan baguhin ang bansa sa anumang paraan kaya natin.

Ric,

Nakakaintindi ka ba ng tagalog? Palagay ko naman hindi ka lumaki sa us o england dahil baluktot na TH naman ang english mo. Sabi ko crane-operator ako dito sa saudi, tapos tatanungin mo kung nakapag-abroad na ako? natural! At hindi ako nagbabalak dalhin dito sa saudi ang mga pamilya ko. kahit kasya ang kita ko para sa amin, mahihirapan sila dito dahil sa kakaibang kulturang muslim. Ang sabi ko magma-migrate kami sa canada dahil may naga-antay na trabaho sa akin doon. Heavy equipment operator din pero permanent residency ang status, pati ang boung pamilya ko. Di naman kalakihan ang sweldo ko pero may sponsor kaming pansamantalang maga-alalay habang walang trabaho si misis (nurse ang misis ko) Ang mga anak ko itutuloy ang high school don ng libre. mas madaling mag-adjust dahil liberal ang kultura ng canada.

Ngayon tungkol sa qualification, kung hindi mo talagang pinagsikapan na maiangat ang iyong kaalaman at pagsasanay ay talagang tagilid ka kahit saan - pilipinas man o sa abroad. All things being equal, I would rather take my chance outside of the philippines where there are equal opportunities for the willing. Ayan, English yan ha. Naintindihan mo, Ricardo?

nakakalungkot talaga mga nangyayari sa bansa natin na lahat ng boto ko tuwing eleksyon para mapabuti ang bansa eh napupunta sa wala dahil lahat ng mga pangako ng mga politiko sa kani kanilang mga kampanya eh laging napapako. Lahat ng tamang buwis na binabayad naming mag asawa noong nasa Pilipinas pa ang trabaho namin eh napupunta din sa wala. Kaya ngayon, inilalagay na namin sa aming mga kamay ang ikauunlad ng aming pamilya at yan ay ang magtrabaho sa labas kahit na hiwahiwalay kami at patapusin sa mahusay na paaralan mga anak namin para sila naman ang magkaroon ng pag asang mabuhay ng matiwasay pagkatapos nila. Mababait silang mga anak namin eskwela-bahay lang ang gawain nila at paminsan minsang nag papasyal kasama mga kaibigan nilang piling pili din; walang mga bisyo puro mga me ambisyon din sa buhay nila. Lahat ng ito eh dahil na rin sa mataimting dasal ko sa Panginoon na gabayan sila habang wala kami ng asawa ko sa tabi nila at hindi NIYA pinababayaan ang mga anak anim. Sipag, tiyaga at higit sa lahat PANANAMPALATAYA sa DIYOSO ang sekreto ng aming pamilya.

JOEY P
I’ve been out of the country for 14 yrs. Every couple of years, I come home to be with my parents and relatives. Everytime I am in the airport, I encountered airport employees who were so rude and greedy. They even yell and disrespect travellers. Is this one way of showing credits to OFWs who keep on pumping billions of dollars to the gov’t.? I am really upset about this? NAIA is the worst airport I’ve ever been. It has the most number of employees ever that most are doing nothing except begging for pasalubong. What a shame?
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Let me give you some advice, Next time to go home bring bag of candy and if these people in the airport ask for pasalubong SMILE and give them candy. Utakan lang ika nga.

eliano alipao
para sa mga pinoy sa abroad at at dyan sa atin sa pinas.matagal na akong nagtrabaho sa abroad pero ngayon lang ako nakadanas ng matinding hirap dahil sa pagbaba ng currency conversion ng peso.dati malaking halaga ang darating sa pamilya,pero ngayon kunti na lang.kapos lagi ang kanilang pang konsumo at gastusin sa pagaaral,lalo na nagtaasn ang m=lahat ng bilihin.ano ba tlaga ito.hanggang kailan ang paghihirap ng ating bayan.sabagay maraming hindi naghihirap.sabi nga nila yong mga buwaya ay sagana ang pamilya,mga sindikato,hold uppers,mga taong gumagawa ng illegal ay busog na busog ang kanilang pamilya.pag nasa maayos na paraan ang kabuhayan mo talagang ang pamilya mo ay araw araw gutom.
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Talagang ganoon sa filipinas, Maraming ang nagugutom. Especially there is more and more filipino people out of work. You’re very lucky to have a chance to work abroad. Atleast your family can eat 3xa day. Count your blessing.

Ric
to sonofagun

Have you ever worked abroad or just tried to do it? Then you should know that maybe one of thousand jobs would allow to bring the family. Even then, do you think it would be a good time for the family to stay at a place where they know nothing, do not speak the language, where phil. education is not recognized etc., aside from the problem that mostly the salary would not be enough for to maintain a family abroad.
Imagine a salary of 500 Dollar, a common salary, which is good for the Philippines (at least before the Peso became so stupid overvalued) but by far not enough for living with a family abroad. Often it would not even cover the rental of house or flat. Not to mention that, for instance, a christian family in middle east where most OFWs work, would have to live like in a prison, always in danger to land in jail for doing something which is not allowed by law or islam religion. How a Filipina would feel in Saudi Arabia if she is not even allowed to claim her mail at the post office because she has not the right to approach a male?

And the tons of ads for jobs, yes they are there. But very few of the OFWs would match the requirements since most offered jobs are hi-tech or at least need a four years college degree. Even for rather simple jobs. That is, because in RP there is no apprenticeship for to become a professional, only college where usually 90% is only theory while an apprentice, like in Europe, has 3 to 4 years practical knowledge plus the theory in labor schools. This makes, that at the end all apprentices have the same practical and theoretical knowledge since the whole system is following a government standard.
Here in RP, easy one could be refused with his or her diploma because not all colleges have the same reputation.
Therefore, even tons of job ads can not give jobs to those who most need it, the poor that could not afford an education at a prestigious college.
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You have the choice, Stay in the Philippines and starve to death. Or take a chance in other country to find a better life for your family. Here in california there is lots of filipino people you won’t even miss the Philippines!
canada too is a good place to migrate!

SAPATERO
the best thing for us OFWs is to unite under one umbrella organization - it is only in numbers that we can get this government to listen to our plight.

kaso nga, even abroad, feudalistic pa rin ang character natin - at alam ng mga namumuno sa gobyerno ang ganong sistema…..kaya wala silang pakialam, magtatalak man ang bawat pinoy sa kahit anong sulok ng mundo….hindi nila ito pakikinggan - dahil wala ngang pagkakaisa ang mga pinoy.

if we have one umbrella organization, ay !kaydali natin mapapapayag ang gobyerno sa ating demands, ka indo.

rising prices ? very low exchange rate ? corruption ? kaya natin solusyunan yan, basta iisa lang ang boses ng OFWs.

pero kelan nga ba tayo puedeng magkaisa ? 8 milyon nasa abroad , mga 40 million katao ang hakot natin kung isasama natin ang ating mga pamilya sa iisang adhikain.

kelan nga ba ?
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Maybe never! But there is one thing that all OFW’S can unite under one umbrella. DON’T SEND BIG AMOUNT OF MONEY TO YOUR LOVE ONE. Yon tamang tama lang. Save your money until the exchange rate goes up! I’m one of the people who stop sending big amount of money if all of use do this the money exchange will go up in no time. And there is no end and buts about it.

Lito Gutierrez
I have been away from the Phil. for 23 years. After one year abroad i brought my girlfriend with me and mary her. My company give me a round trip ticket and one month vacation to the Phil. every year so i can visit my relatives. After these years working overseas there’s no such good feeling as going back home and settled for good. Call it home sweet home and i hope our leaders who are elected by the people will focus their minds in serving the country and not in corruption. After working and go home to your family and relax, listen news from the Phil. its anoying that all hear are about the corruptions of government officials including the closest relatives of the president.
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As we all can see it. The only reason they kick the duly elected President Joseph Estrada, so that they’re the one can rob the government coffer. Of course they didn’t kick Erap, For nothing!

You may have seen the worst of it on the NAIA. Thats mild or nothing at all compared to other ports or places in the world. Karachi and Suez Canal authorities to name a few bleed you of everything that fancy them.

Mga kababayan na OFW,

Mabuhay po kayong lahat. Allow me to share an article you can find on Inquirer.net entitled “High-Blood Peso: Treat the Illness, Not the Symptom” to better understand the underlying reasons for the rapid appreciation in the peso and the potential for further strengthening due to the theory of rational expectations, i.e., as OFWs and speculators expect the dollar to weaken and the peso to strengthen further, more and more dollars will flood the Philippine economy. I also listed 10 suggestions to contain the peso appreciation. Bottomline, our problem is not the oversupply of dollars, but the lack of sustainable demand due to our failure in agriculture and most of all industrialization. We have a structural problem that the government is trying to solve with band-aid measures. As a temporary relief to OFWs, the DBP has announced today the launch of forward covers or hedging facilities to protect your $ savings. Please take your time to study it and take advantage of it. It’s quite simple and straightforward and should be available on their websites. Another possibility is to invest in business, and I am working with some agribusinessmen to provide OFWs an avenue for investing their hard-earned dollars into a business with a strong ROI that will nourish our people, raise farmers’ incomes, fuel our cars and clean our air.

God bless and Godspeed to us all.

Willy Arcilla
Business Mentors
warcilla@wardhowell.com.ph

heres an idea….perhaps if people would stop breeding like rabbits, then the poverty would go down. If you think you have a RIGHT to have children, then you are part of the problem. Your children are born poor? Then its your own fault when they die poor and starving.

whatever….tama ka kabayan kung sino pa yung mahihirap at hindi kayang magpaaral at magpalaki ng mga anak sa maayos na pamumuhay ay siya pang maraming anak. Here’s an idea bakit hindi magpasa ng batas and ating magagaling na tonggressman na controlin ang populasyon at pero hindi bawal and mag anak ng marami pero sa isang kondisyon… magbayad ang sinumang magulang ng tax o penalty sa gov. pag lumagpas ng dalawa ang kanilang anak para ang pondong ito ay puedeng gamitin sa social welfare at sana hindi sa bulsa ng tonggressman. Para naman doon sa kumokontra sa family planning lalo na yung mayayaman na nasa poder ng gov. at ang simbahan .. siguro puede nilang ampunin lahat yung batang nakakaalat sa kalye para gumanda naman ang kinabukasan nila. Simpleng idea lang po para umunlad naman ang ating bayan!!!!!

Filipinos are working abroad to feed their families in the Philippines, enduring all the pain of being away from your loved ones. But here comes our government putting in place more rules to burden OFWs and aspiring OFWs.

OFWs seek scrapping of POEA direct-hiring rules
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/78642/OFWs-seek-scrapping-of-POEA-direct-hiring-rules#

Professionals rise up vs new POEA rule
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=107317

I do hope Inquirer will also make this topic visible to the public

The new POEA regulation on direct hired OFWs is a corruption-in-disguise. Why do they have to ask the foreign employers to post the s0-called bonds of US$8000.00 in total? POEA must be the one to shoulder these bonds as we are paying every year the fees required. Where is the money they have collected from millions of OFWs? POEA do not have the right to dictate what we must do, as this is unconstitutional. We have the right to work. They must remember, without the OFWs, POEA will be existing.

they’re all true…and the worse thing is that we’re working hard abroad for almost nothing now. can you imagine having to experience all the difficulties in working in a foreign land and earn about the same thing now?

with the weakening dollar, our earnings in our currency is close to 1:1. THB1.00=PHP1.00 ??? it’s so sad.

hope GMA can do something really urgently. it’s tough to be away from home and still earn the same as that back home.

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tharry Says:
February 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
The new POEA regulation on direct hired OFWs is a corruption-in-disguise. Why do they have to ask the foreign employers to post the s0-called bonds of US$8000.00 in total? POEA must be the one to shoulder these bonds as we are paying every year the fees required. Where is the money they have collected from millions of OFWs? POEA do not have the right to dictate what we must do, as this is unconstitutional. We have the right to work. They must remember, without the OFWs, POEA will be existing.
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So, what can you expect from the crooks! of course the money they’re collecting goes to their pocket. What else! And you’re absulotely right, Without the OFW’S the POEA will never exist. OFW’S has the power to do what is right for them,…. Used it.

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icarus Says:
January 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I could live with a weaker dollar. It’s all part of the dynamics of the world economy cycle. What gets my goat is when this administration trumpets the weakening of the dollar as a sign of an improving Philippine economy - as if a higher peso to dollar ratio is something to crow about; and as if they have something to do about it. The fact is, the peso is not doing very good, it’s just that the dollar is doing badly, partly because OFWs are flooding the local market with dollars. The fact is, it is happening not because of them but despite of them. I have no economics background to flaunt beyond Econ. 101 but I know that when a currency is said to have become stronger, it means that it has appreciated in value and thus, it could buy more goods and services. Yes, the peso today could buy more dollars – from 1/51 last year to 1/41 today, but so what? Logic tells me that when the peso has been made stronger, as they so very often take credit for, then it means that they have improved its purchasing power. Then, OFW’s like me would not be bothered by a lower exchange rate simply because what was lost due to a lower exchange rate would have been compensated for by a higher purchasing power. But irony of ironies, the peso could even buy significantly less now that it is 1/41 to the dollar than when it was 1/51! And they have the nerve to call that an economic miracle? Why can’t this dispensation wait for others to pat them in the back? They seem to be so insecure that they would take every opportunity to wallow in delusional self-praise, even if their claimed achievement is clearly a blatant lie. Magbolahan kayo at magtampisaw sa kasinungalingan… diyan lang naman talaga kayo magaling.
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Gloria Arroyo, Tell everybody her so call booming economy hoping the filipino people will believe her. In fact there is a few people believe all her lies! But, Truth of the matter is her so call booming economy nothing but pad just like she pad her votes in,. May 10, 2004. Presidential election in order to win.

But one of these day all her lies will catch up on her. And her so call booming economy she’s bragging about will collapse. By then everything its too late. I hope and pray it will collapse soon just to prove the point.

Phil. Food Security vs NBN Broadband:
Today 22 Feb 2008, Phil gov’t asked assurance from Vietnam to ensure supply of rice to the Philippines….

What a sorry state of my poor country Phils begging food from another country Vietnam while the latter only learned the technology to plant and produce high yielding rice from Phils.

Now, Phils gov’t is the middle of corruption controversy to install internet in all gov’t offices throughout the country. While the country needs to improve communications infrastructure, this project is way way off against the backdrop of a country that cannot even feed its own people.

WHICH COMES FIRST FOOD OR INTERNET?

Let’s put it in simple way. In a household situation where family budget has to be allocated according to its needs and priorities. ALIN BA UUNAHIN KUNG KAPOS ANG PERA. BIGAS O CABLE TV? ULAM O LOAD SA CELLPHONE?

This is what’s happening to our country today. It’s so sad that Gloria despite of her being an economist she couldn’t seems to grasp the fundamental needs of the country and the Filipino people.

The only reason she scrapped the NBN deal was because of the revelation of undeniable participation of corruption in the highest order of her husband - FG aka Jose Pidal.

That’s the truth.

Why don’t you blame Sen Villar and his company among others for converting agricultural land into a subdivision. In my estimate there are almost 1 BILLION hectares or more, of prime agricultural land were converted into a residential and industrial subdivision in Bulacan, these vast tract of land is supossed to yield BILLIONS of cavan of rice or even more applying the right technology that we had, these are enough to produce the needed rice to feed the hungry Filipinos instead of importing from Vietnam or anywhere in the world. The very problem lies on the law maker and who failed to craft a suitable law that will protect this agricultural land but instead they just remained deaf and blind to protect the interest of real estate developer like Villar ; I presumed that they even made the law easy for the local authorities to declare this land unproductive for deliberately cutting the irrigation and eventually become a very expensive subdivision. I have been witnessing the real estate development for a decade which my heart cries out everytime new agricultural land is being abandoned due to lack of irrigation which supposed to be the responsibility of another corrupt agency the NIA and becoming a milking cow for some politican with their bogus irrigation project like farm to market road. My God in our own village after lots of these unfinished poor quality projects that easily wash out during rainy season. Mostly sponsored by LAWMAKER from their pork and barrel fund. You know the weight of carabao is more than enough to CRACK the pavement. Why keep on blaming Gloria for all economic woes happening in our country and of the whole world as a result of globalization. Why blaming Gloria for the problems she just inherited from the previous administration so much tainted also by corruption like Erap, tabako, apo makoy at Inang Cory. Why blaming Gloria even for the ineptness of the alleged pundits hiding in congress in the disguise of law maker ; for their failure to craft a suitable law that will stop this rampant conversion of agricultural land every where in the phillipines? Why blaming Gloria for the stupidity and misery of majority of Filipinos for electing noisy and uneducated economic manager and law maker like jingoy and his wristband father?
I have not heard too much noise from those street barker to stop Villar and others to develop agricultural land to subdivision. Mga ipokrito pati pagtae nyo sinisisi nyo kay gloria. ZTE tigil na yan , umiiyak llang si De Venecia kasi dapt nakinabang siya. kung natuloy iyon na sila nakakuha ng kontrata mga tahimik din mga *&^%$# yan. Di daw Corrupt ang ama nya. Tanong mo SA TATLONG ITLOG na obispo na si LABAYEN, CRUZ at INUGEUZ, kasama na ang mananakbong pari sa si Robert Reyes kung papaano magsagawa ng examination of conscience para ma remind din ang mga tinaguriang Obispo na ito na nagmamalinis. Napakarami po na mga tiwaling obispo sa kasaysayan ng simbahan kaya naman si San Franciso na isang dukha ang naging taga gising. Hoi … gagara ng mga sassakyan ng obispo na ito at sasarap ng kinakain at sagana sa kwarta… taliwas sa kanilang nirerepresenta na si Jesu Kristo.. dumanas ng hirap… pero punong puno parin ng pag ibig… pwe tulad nyoy mga nitso maganda labas bulok ang loob… yan ang sabi ng panginoon sa mga pariseo at escriba… mga mapag paimbabaw… dinadahilan nyo ang mahahabang panalangin pero inuubos naman ninyo kayamanan ng mga balo at dukha… ang nais ninyoy pagpugayan sa mga lansangan katulad kayo ng inyong ama… sino ang inyong …tanungin mo sarili mo?

Each one’s due will come. Everyone with blood on there hands should be tried (if you please, including Villar). Everybody should be held accountable for their own actions. If we have to make a stand, we should make it count. How? By shooting at the very heart of evil - GMA!

Alex, kailanman ay hindi naging tama ang mandaya. Ang ipinta ang isang sarili na bayani dahil sa hirap ng iba. Ekonomistang naturingan si GMA, sangayon lamang sa salita nya. Puro pahirap lamang ang dulot ng mag-asawang PIDAL, hanggang ngayon ba ay di mo pa nakikita yan.

Tunay na kawa-awa ang mga OFW sa pagbaba ng dolyar. At di rin naman ramdam ang pag-angat ng ekonomiya sa ating bayan. Di nabawasan ang presyo ng pangunahing bilihin….

So, why should we blame only GMA? Tinatanong pa ba yan? Sya ang nagpapatakbo ng papalubog na barko na tinatawag nating inang bayan! It’s a no-brainer!

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Alex Reyes Says:
February 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Why don’t you blame Sen Villar and his company among others for converting agricultural land into a subdivision.

The peso is not rising. It’s the US dollar’s value that’s sinking because of the slow down in the US economy. The OFWs dollar remittances is principally responsible for holding up the Philipiine economy, and GMA should not take credit for it. This in itself is another form of robbery.

Take a look at how things are related. The Arroyos ask Abalos, etal to rig the elections. Abalos, of course, wants something in return, including a $130M flying parachute. All GMA can do is turn a blind eye, even if Neri has told her that Abalos has tried to bribe him/her. In fact, Abalos has the Arroyos by the neck that she can change government policy from BOT to a loan package, all because Abalos needs to retire in luxury - in exchange for stealing the elections. Meanwhile, Filipinos are suffering so much because of all of Arroyos and her lapdogs thievery that they can not join any rallies anymore. They can not afford to lose one day’s pay because that means there will be no food on the table the next day. Meanwhile also, Arroyo and her tutas are using the money that they stole from us to bribe people to go into Pro Arroyo rallies.

Matagal na tayong ginagago at pinagnanakawan, pero mas gusto pa natin na magpunta sa mall at tumanga sa mga mayayaman na may bitbit na pinamimili.

Perhaps, we do deserve all of this. Per haps we will never learn. Perhaps, the best solution for all our woes, really, is to go abroad and in the end break our families’. Tutal hindi lang naman tayo ang nasisira ang pamilya. It’s happening all over. Di bale, may pang mall naman tayo. Hayaan na lang natin na pagnakawan tayo. Tutal wala naman tayong magagawa.

Thank you for the response people.

To gorio, I’m not justifying myself. I merely stated a fact.

To Reiner Abdon, your argument is flawed. A child could have reasoned much better.

To Alex Reyes, let no one be spared. Whoever has blood on their hands, let’s stone and crucify. There is no justice without accountability. I cited GMA for the simple fact that the extent of her corruption affects us the most. She’s the President (fake or perceived) for crying out loud! And if the “forgotten” word of NERI is to be taken, she’s “evil”.

The stronger peso GMA trumphets is not a result of her own doing. The dollar just happened to be weak, and the OFWs flooded the market with more dollar.

The next time GMA takes credit to the valuation of the pesos, remember that it is just one more lie staring us in the face.

Wala nang padalahan at uuwi ng pinas wakekekekekekeeke

Why does Philipine people have so many kids. don’t they think that these children have to be fed. What i think of the catholic church you would not want to hear. When you see the size of Italian familys. Some one is telling lies over birth control. specialy when it works out at 1.6 children per family in Italy.The lowest in europe. Britain And Germany is !.9 it is about time the church started to feed these some of these starving children or is it they just want you to go too church and pray every day for some thing to eat.