"ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE FROM A DISTANCE"
Like our Planet Earth, the universal crisis on economics keeps on revolving day after day with no assurance yet when shall the current global malady be checked to slowly return to its normalcy.
Subsequently, powerful as well as the poor nations of the world are doing their bests to partly reduce the impact of this devastating situation which is too impossible to be solved soonest. Leader countries like America & those in Europe have not been spared with this situation which was predicted to be worse than the great depression of the 1970's and 1980's.
Siyempre pa, naliligalig ang buong mundo lalo't higit ay ang America sa dahilang sa nakaraang taon lang (2008), mahigit sa dalawang million at kalahati (2.6 million) ang nawalan ng trabaho o hanapbuhay sa kanilang mga mamamayan.
And the world is staring at the United States of America on how they could solve their own problems on unemployment which during (last month alone) December 2008, it's been recorded that a total of 524,000 lost their jobs (staggering more than half a million).
Comparing to the small and not-much-developed countries like ours, such a job lost statistics tremendously will definitely bring negative impact to our economy to the point that perhaps, the Philippines will slowly go down the drain.
We must be thankful first and foremost to our God Almighty that even we are a small, poor nation that belongs to the third world, that we are spared from natural calamities (extreme weather conditions - many degrees below freezing point) that are occuring in the most industrialized countries of the world.
Somehow, kung patuloy man ang pag-ulan sa iba't-ibang parte ng ating bansa, that causes soil erosions, numerous floodings, etc., maituturing pa rin nating tayo'y mapalad sapagkat we can survive our ordeals dahil tayong mga Filipinos are very flexible in combatting and surviving our way of life. Kahit madalas tayong dalawin ng mga mapaminsalang bagyo, Filipinos are very resilient to live a normal life after the storm.
On the other hand, ang ibang kalamidad sa atin ay attributed na rin sa sarili nating kapabayaan at kawalang-concern sa ating kapaligiran or environment. Marapat sanang tayo'y mamulat na sa katotohanang tayo mismo ang nagiging dahilan ng ating mga problema so dapat lang na ito'y ating maiwasto, maiwasang mangyaring muli sapagkat in the long ran, tayo rin ang naaapektuhan at nahihirapan.
Kung tutuusin, the clogging of the cities drainage systems as well as the soil erosions in the provinces or the mountainous areas are caused by majority of us. Wala silang habas sa pagtatapon ng mga basura kahit saan nila gusto, at ang mga nagkakaingin naman, sige lang nang sige sa pagputol ng mga punong-kahoy na siyang nagpo-protekta sa ating mga kabunsukan laban sa malawakang pagbaha or during inclement weather conditions.
Of course, everything will experience a pause or pansamantalang pagkaantala ng anumang serbisyo publiko, gayundin ang paghahanapbuhay ng mga namamasukan o nagtatrabaho sa iba't-ibang sektor ng ating lipunan. And whom shall we blame, ang panahon ba o tayong mga tao na nagiging parte sa walang habas na pagkasira ng ating kalikasan o kapaligiran.
Global warming and other extreme weather phenomenons are in one way or the other attributed to the activities of men and nobody can deny that. So, kung magpapatuloy tayo sa ating mga kinagawiang hindi kanais-nais, kahit wala na tayo sa mundong ito, pagdating nang takdang panahon our world will be no where to find by our future generations, as they'll be gone with it too.
A piece of advise, kung nais nating mapabuti ang ating sarili, ang ating kapaligiran, ang ating bansa o lipunan gayunduin ang mundong ating ginagalawan, we have to think over and over again on how we could contribute in preserving our nature and our planet.
On the economic point of view, I'm extending my won "ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE FROM A DISTANCE" sa inyong lahat upang kahit man lang ilang saglit ay ating mabigyan nang konting kahalagahan kung papaano tayo makakatulong, hindi ang tayo'y patuloy na maging bahagi ng mga problemang pagsapit nang takdang panahon ay ating pagsisisihan (kung huli na ang lahat).
TONY R. MONTERAS (malaking ibon)
OFW , Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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