What Lies Ahead

Whenever I see children playing on the street, I remember those happy days when we were kids. Never there have been a dull moment when we were playing with my playmates. As long as we were enjoying ourselves playing, we never think what will happen next, we don't even worry for ourselves though sometimes there was harm in the games we played. "Que sera sera" like what the song says.

Unlike now, now that I have my own family, I have to think of everything. From shelter, food to eat, clothes to wear etc. But for me, one of the most important thing a family man should think is the future of their kids. Every parents want to give their kids the best, so do I.

But I'm asking myself, can I still be able to give my daughter the best amidst the present economic and political situation of the country? The world knows that the present political & economic situation in the country is getting worse following the revelation of the anomalies that the president together with her family headed by her husband and their allies did for numerous government projects. It has been said that the First Family was behind every overpriced government transactions.

After the anomalous NBN-ZTE deal was exposed to the public, star witness Mr. Jun Lozada then said on a hearing that the Senate must also investigate on the previous government projects such as the South Rail project which costs roughly around 932 million US Dollars and that previous government projects must be subjected for investigation to see if there has been an irregularity happened before, during and after the project has been agreed upon by the government and the contracting party and to see if the President had her participation on the alleged overpricing on the said projects.


People from all walks of life and even students in different universities joined hands to urge the government to speak for the truth, they even staged an inter faith rally in Ayala Avenue in Makati late last month to call for the resignation of Mrs. Arroyo but the palace belittled the demonstrators act.

There had been reports that the policemen barred some militant groups from the provinces to join the said rally to lessen their numbers but they strongly deny this allegations.

Some politicians, educators and businessmen merged to build an independent commission they called The Independent Citizens' Debt Audit Commission, consisting of not more than 30 individuals of proven probity, credibility and expertise and shall be conducting a comprehensive audit of all public debt and contingent liabilities aiming for an accurate historical, contextual and comprehensive examination of the Philippine debt problem.

Milo Tanchuling, PAID (People Against Illegitimate Debt)! co-convenor and secretary general of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, said "with Rodolfo 'Jun' Lozada's revelation on the aborted $329 million ZTE-NBN deal, the Philippines' debt problem and the continued accumulation of illegitimate debts has once again been put in the spotlight".

To date, the National Government has a debt of P3.78 trillion or $81.6 billion. The total consolidated public sector debt as of percentage to the Gross Domestic Product is 81.9 percent.

Each Filipino, from the newly born baby to a dying septuagenarian, is indebted by as much as P43,487, paying P7,012 annually to service the debt, the group's statement said.

Imagine that, even before our baby born, he owe this government a debt he don't even know who benefits from it.

After all of this scandals, can we still say that we still can provide our kids a better future now that Mrs. Arroyo is facing treason charges by allegedly allowing the Chinese government to explore Spratly Island to look for an oil deposit?