It has not been a good period. The last several weeks have been besieged with negativity, from unending oil increases to higher LPG costs, runaway rice prices that needed to be capped, and revelations about confidential funds while ordinary Filipinos struggle to survive. I cannot seem to open the television, read the news, or listen to the radio – aggravated by constant conversations in fast food areas (used to be barber shops) – without more reports of the same sad stories. Of course, it is not bad just for most Filipinos who cannot afford to take more blows to their monthly budgets, For the country and our future as a whole, we are seeing the continuing erosion of whatever economic strength we had built up in the past.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/166898/insensitivity-to-the-hardship-of-people

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