rich, getting richer?

[uls]

There are people who are really good at screwing up.

Kahit bigyan mo pa ng opportunity para umasenso, they will always find a way to screw up.

That's the case with lottery winners who eventually lose everything...

or OFW dependents who are given capital to start small businesses pero wala nangyari

[uls]

why lottery, why wowowee, kdond, raffles hits big and patronized my filipinos...poverty

when host interviews nurses, the first question would be "when are you going abroad?" its not why you take up nursing, simply because developed countries offers a bigger salary for them, not only nurses to all odd jobs, including house helper, driver, maid, construction worker.

but if philippines is poor, wy does SM clicks, maybe because they got the power and focus to be up, education may not only the sole factor to achieve success, somehow connection matters more in some cases.

Pinoys look to lotteries and jueteng and wowowee etc coz that's where they see hope in getting out of poverty.

There are so few opportunities here to get out of poverty that people dont see hope in anything else.

Maybe other than in working abroad...

which is why so many people are taking up nursing...

Which is how SM thrives --- OFW remittances --- OFW dependents here with disposable income go shopping...

[oldblue]

work to learn
make money work for you

then bantay to the max ka na lang ... bantay stock trading, bantay tao, bantay new trends and bantay salakay

[city]

kakatawa ung title ng article -- Rich getting richer faster than the poor

Syempre. Ano ba dapat? Poor getting richer faster than the rich?

"Buti pa kayo mayaman kami..samantalang kami mahirap kayo"?

[enegue]

The government should focus not just in sending OFW but to attract investors and not only in call centers but in other industry as well. To alleviate the poor you should also offer employment opportunity to high schools and vocational grads call center cater only college graduates. also the salary of nurses and teachers
should also increase in our local hospitals and both public and private so they will no longer seek to work abroad. Right now nursing education has been commercialized by a lot of college and university, with a big advertisement of an american dream.

[jpdm]

government must reduce the cost of living in the Philippines......i.e. reduce electricity costs and minimize red tape and graft and corruption (factored among the costs of doing business) to lessen the costs of producing goods and services in the country....

These will reduce the pressure of increasing the wages/ income which in turn is inflationary........

Food is cheap in other countries like the US because of farm subsidies given by the federal Government to farmers.....

Bakit di natin ginagawa rito.......

[theveed]

You guys are forgetting that the poor DOESN'T want to work...

[VtEC]

The government should focus not just in sending OFW but to attract investors and not only in call centers but in other industry as well. To alleviate the poor you should also offer employment opportunity to high schools and vocational grads call center cater only college graduates. also the salary of nurses and teachers
should also increase in our local hospitals and both public and private so they will no longer seek to work abroad. Right now nursing education has been commercialized by a lot of college and university, with a big advertisement of an american dream.

ha ha ha, phils as one of the key players for exporting workers abroad.How pathetic.

Mayaman yumayaman kasi sila lang may puhunan.More investments, more income.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Food is cheap in other countries like the US because of farm subsidies given by the federal Government to farmers.....

Hmmm. I thought the whole idea of subsidies is to buoy up farmers so they don't go under because of the low prices. The prices are low to begin with due to overproduction with huge surplus in storage. American farms tend to be very productive.

What you're saying is quite different.

[niky]

You guys are forgetting that the poor DOESN'T want to work...

Says who? A lot of poor people do want to work... which is why government relocation and housing programs often fail, simply because there aren't enough employment opportunities near the housing programs to support the people who are moved there.

Tell that to all the women doing domestic labor locally, or to the men waiting in line for jobs at employment offices.

Nobody wants to be poor. Yes, there are lots of men who waste their lives drinking on the corners, or lounging on the streets, but they can only get away with that because they have wives who provide for them (Filipina Martyr Syndrome... ), but there are lots of poor people looking for a job... any job.