“La vita è bella!” – Guido (Roberto Benigni)
Life is beautiful. We were taught (and we somehow believed) that life, just like love, is a many splendored things. We have witnessed how life changed, and how much this has changed mankind. For a while, we held that life must be simple in order to live decently. But why men, when complicated things, wish to make things more complicated? Can we not live in a world of simplicity?
Capitalists become more interested to earnings and not livings. They have sacrificed objectivity over subjectivity. They became men of money and not men of many. With this, we would like to ask how did the corporations gain so much power over government and the people, the same question that Mike Adams, Editor of NaturalNews.com, has asked. And he provided at least a hint: campaign finances. Some business corporations (and private school owners) hire hoards of lobbyists who dart in and out of the parliament, leaving behind trails of cash and corruption. Most lawmakers hardly ever meet with the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their time cavorting with corporate rabble-rousers who operate based on the simple principle of greed. Caution: when the business corporations run a nation, the nation has no real future, because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the next generation.
The Philippines is no excuse of that nation. There’s no need for in-depth mathematics to understand the following figures: 11 Filipino billionaires are in 2011 Forbes Lists of World’s Richest, the income of the richest 10% of Filipino families accounted for 36.0% of the total family income in the country; their income is even higher than the combined income of the lowest 60% of families; their income is also 19 times that of the poorest 10% of families and 260% higher than the national average; the highest 30% income group enjoy a double-digit savings while the lowest 30% have up to 10% income deficit; their savings is 10.2 times that of the combined savings of the lowest 70% income groups. It’s horrible indeed!
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