In defense of OFW’s: “Walang ganyan sa States”
Filed under: Business & Economy, Career & Education, La vida loca, OFW Life & Issues
My entry today is in response to a comment left by a certain ?pobreng_obrero? which irked me, over at Salve?s Money Smarts Blog, incidentally on the very feature of my blog article. Here?s what ?pobreng_obrero? has to say: (please click the thumbnail)
Now, I will highlight the comments to OFW?s which I will clear up and respond.
- ) What better place to prosper than in your home country. Remember, we?re a developing economy?opportunities abound for those with the right attitude, and who know where to look.
- ) OFWs always tout themselves as ?major income source for the Phlippines? but in reality they practically don?t pay taxes and most of their remittances go straight to CONSUMPTION instead of investments and savings.
- ) No real homegrown products are being developed from those billions of dollars of so-called liquidity.
- )As a Filipino, if you have no participation in our country?s homegrown development, you should at least have the delicadeza not to criticize it. Remember the TV commercial where a dollar-earning ?balikbayan? laments the poor state of our country?s roads by saying ?Walang Ganyan Sa States??no big surprise because she pays her taxes abroad and not here!
- ) OFWs with such an attitude should apologize to the ?pobreng? peso-earning salaried workers who pay taxes every 15th/30th of the month so that they could use our ?bulok? roads and on their way to Duty Free Shops.
Let me try to explain so that other people who have pobreng_obrero’s mentality will understand.
My Obama in Philadelphia and McCain’s supporters rage!
Filed under: Business & Economy, Electoral College, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics & Government, Sarah Palin, US Elections
I am so stressly busy with my Chicago move that I didn’t get the change to get a glimpse of my new President of the United States. Yes, my Barack Obama is in Philadelphia today. And yes, the McCain campaign has now brought this Presidential campaign as the super uber ugliest in history with McCain supporters calling Obama as dangerous, a traitor, an arab and should be harmed. Yes, really ugly.
