Here’s what my friend posted on her fb account (posted here with permission). Attached is a screen cap of the discourse between concerned citizens that transpired in relation to her post:
I’ve read so many status saying ‘please pray for the victims of this typhoon’ but somehow, I’m pretty pissed off enough to rant about it—- it hurts. It hurts me as a Catholic and a Filipino seeing so many of my countrymen devastated YEARLY by floods that we know come with every typhoon season. By all means, pray, let’s flock to the churches and pray on our own but GOD please, as a country, do something about it.
It hurts to see evac centers pop up like muscle memory for 30+ years when we all know the root of the problem is the third grade drainage systems and infrastructure that is never fixed. Its all well and good to have an emergency system when we need it, but as someone who has worked the commercial circuit of architecture for years here, why is it that our public government can’t even come up with a basic infrastructure that allows for little or no flood at all? Its not like no one can’t do it the right way, the malls and offices I’ve handled often have just floods that affect parking and nothing else to impede their sources of income.
Our apathy is appalling, really. We’re one of the most literate countries on earth yet we allow our government, the one WE CHOOSE to treat us so shabbily and then just complain in the background, or whine to God. If the strength of a country comes from a strong middle class, that said middle class has to DO SOMETHING. We are, after all, paying for it. I’m often asked why I never exercised my right to vote, and its because none of the people who run are any I would choose to govern me, and they are names I see bandied about FOR YEARS AND YEARS. Why choose someone who would waffle on the important bits, like a basic quality of life?! Come on, and cut the crap.
Wake up and smell the shit from the esteros.
You want to avoid this kind of situation every year?! Don’t throw trash in the canals, choose the right people to govern where it impacts us the most, get rid of corrupt politicians who take money for civil projects then run away with it. We can’t control the weather, but we CAN and SHOULD control the environment that it falls on!
Prayer is beautiful. But we are also taught that God gives us all the tools to live—- we have them at our disposal, and I’m willing to bet my soul that God would be proud of us for utilizing it.
I’m Catholic and a Filipino, and I’m not giving up any of those descriptions soon even if I did relocate to another country, but please, please, please, give me and yourselves something to be proud about; to have a quality of life that didn’t involve sacrificing hundreds of lives every year to a weather pattern that we know comes yearly. I’m not asking for the green dream, or a luxurious kind of life for all of us collectively, just a life that enables you to function, like a human being without much disparity.
Is this reaching for too much????
It hurts to see evac centers pop up like muscle memory for 30+ years when we all know the root of the problem is the third grade drainage systems and infrastructure that is never fixed. Its all well and good to have an emergency system when we need it, but as someone who has worked the commercial circuit of architecture for years here, why is it that our public government can’t even come up with a basic infrastructure that allows for little or no flood at all? Its not like no one can’t do it the right way, the malls and offices I’ve handled often have just floods that affect parking and nothing else to impede their sources of income.
Our apathy is appalling, really. We’re one of the most literate countries on earth yet we allow our government, the one WE CHOOSE to treat us so shabbily and then just complain in the background, or whine to God. If the strength of a country comes from a strong middle class, that said middle class has to DO SOMETHING. We are, after all, paying for it. I’m often asked why I never exercised my right to vote, and its because none of the people who run are any I would choose to govern me, and they are names I see bandied about FOR YEARS AND YEARS. Why choose someone who would waffle on the important bits, like a basic quality of life?! Come on, and cut the crap.
Wake up and smell the shit from the esteros.
You want to avoid this kind of situation every year?! Don’t throw trash in the canals, choose the right people to govern where it impacts us the most, get rid of corrupt politicians who take money for civil projects then run away with it. We can’t control the weather, but we CAN and SHOULD control the environment that it falls on!
Prayer is beautiful. But we are also taught that God gives us all the tools to live—- we have them at our disposal, and I’m willing to bet my soul that God would be proud of us for utilizing it.
I’m Catholic and a Filipino, and I’m not giving up any of those descriptions soon even if I did relocate to another country, but please, please, please, give me and yourselves something to be proud about; to have a quality of life that didn’t involve sacrificing hundreds of lives every year to a weather pattern that we know comes yearly. I’m not asking for the green dream, or a luxurious kind of life for all of us collectively, just a life that enables you to function, like a human being without much disparity.
Is this reaching for too much????
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