Poverty in the Philippines

The Catholic church says that population growth is not the cause of poverty in the Philippines; it is poor governance by the corrupt government officials. Sadly, however, what is totally ignored is the ugly fact that those corrupt government officials are all products of schools, colleges, and universities own, operated, and managed by the Catholic church in our country. Such as La Salle, Ateneo, San Beda, Letran, UST, Miriam college, Assumption college, AIM, UP, etc, - more than a thousand of such corrupt commercial enterprises established all over the Philippines. They are more referred to as the "system of education" in our country. Indeed, we filipinos are all born ignorant, not corrupt. We are made corrupt by education. And to think that our "system of education" has always been blessed by Jesus on earth as he is in heaven! In the meantime, here are some of the ills of our sick society: You see them in the squatter areas; in the slums. Children begging in the streets of our major cities. With bloated bellies, emaciated by malnutrition, their mental and physical growth retarded. Not to mention, some 16 million Filipinos have no access to toilet facilities in the only blessed by God country in Asia. According to the Department of Health 18.8 millions Filipino children are suffering from intestinal worms. The little tiny creatures created by God as the culprits that cause this evil more known as chronic malnutrition. To think that these common childhood diseases make them grow up, if at all, to be known as the Sick Man of Asia. It can be prevented with proper health education and the values of believing in the beauty of health, hygiene, and sanitation. Oh well, I said it before, I will say it again: Jesus died on the cross for the sake of poverty. We must therefore always celebrate our poverty by being poorer this year; poorer next year than we were already poor both as a people and as a nation during the past 400 years in this God-forsaken only poor Catholic country in Asia. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#