Too much ado about the Dutertes

Politics in this country is the worst saboteur of the economy. The Filipinos eat politics for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and for snacks. Other nations in Asia have only 10% politics and 90% economics. The Filipinos have them all in reverse.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

Too much partisan politics nowadays are diverting the Filipinos’ concern from the most fundamental problems concerning the Philippine economy. The whole nation is forgetting that the lifeblood of the national economy is neither BBM nor Duterte.

Some guys are worrying what will happen to a very rich 79-year-old former president, who is enjoying the cool breeze of The Hague, while millions of poor Filipinos are working under the sweltering heat of tropical summer sun. Folks are rallying for the much-wealthier former president and his daughter, who is about to be tried by the impeachment court. Nobody is minding the millions of poor, suffering Filipino working class who do not know where to get food for the next meal.

The whole nation’s attention and energy are being diverted again from the real problems besetting the Philippines today. The Philippine economy is going down, we have a national debt reaching an alarming amount of more than P16 trillion, the GDP is shrinking, unemployment is rising, and poverty is worsening. And yet, the Filipinos are being divided between the BBM loyalists and the Duterte diehards.