When do you think we become SELF Sufficient???

Amending the laws of the land is the job of the legislators who we voted to the job for us. It is important that on the coming elections, the congressmen and the senators really reflect in their beings the heart of the people. When are we truly self sufficient? We are, actually, are already self sufficient. We have a whole natural resource that could feed our people, and we have a people who are more than willing to work for the betterment of each and every Filipino. Knight, it was worse in the past years and decades. Now we are positioning our nation as a stable one in the Far East. The problems had been identified, and our servants, the government people are working. Give them time, we will be a better nation. Where I pass everyday, the roads are all so cleaned up, with corresponding signages.

Remember that we don't have the technology nor the know-how to do some things and though it seems that it's all for the benefit of these countries, we also have benefits from them since it builds 'relations'. Further, there are a lot of economic theories and decisions involved in those decisions (I don't want to dig further into those because it's really boring ahhahaha). Anyhow, we could start being self-sufficient ourselves then we could influence microeconomics before we could go for the macro of things. Have a great mylot experience ahead!

In this globalised world,I doubt that any country can live without the support of another. Isn't that the reason why the Eu, ASEAN, NATO and every international org has been created? If not for these organizations, countries cannot maximize their economy to fulfil the need of their populace. I even assume that the uS, does need some aid from time to time. Of course, there are conditions, this is a business arrangement, not charity. I doubt that we would want charity either. However, being in a globalised might also be a threat to nationalism. Many people would argue that governments would favour foreign ownership of businesses or foreign investors using a country's national resource. It depends on how you think and how the conditions are made. But being an isolated country can also be a disadvantage. Regarding the amendment, it's scaremongering among the citizens. i agree to scrap the old law because it is not applicable anymore. But someone will tell me that other parts of the Constitution are vulnerable to the tweaking. I say, what's wrong with amending the law that impedes us? If citizens don;t want specific laws changed, they should be vigilant. The public has done that in this Cybercrime law, why it can't be done with a referendum for the Constitution?

No nation for me is self sufficient, each and everyone depends on each other, think it is more of fairness from what you give and what you get in return, think this is the real issue

I certainly agree that we are still far to be self sufficient. We can't even defend our territories and have to rely on big brother US for our territorial disputes with China. And if China try to invade us, I wonder how many days we can stand to defend our country. We have a vast shoreline and sea territories and our coast guards is no match to foreign fishing vessels poaching on our vast oceans. Now because of overfishing, we are now importing fishes to our neighboring nations to beef up our supply. Can you believe that?! Financial Institution has keep upgrading our investment grade since the time of the former president but still foreign investors are evading us, what we got are short term moneys that foreign investors put on our stocks and bonds which they can easily pull out anytime. This inflow of dollar somehow put negative effect on our money exchange rate. What we needs are factories and jobs for our people but instead of putting it here foreign investors go elsewhere. Political reform is only lip serving coming from our politicians. Where are those supporting former GMA now? They jump fences and now with the camp of this administrations. The anti dynasty bill and the Freedom of Information bill are now dusting in Congress because everybody including the President does not want this bill to pass. Our nation is still in the hands of very few rich and influential family so what can the people expect from them, when in fact all they want is self sufficiency for their families and friends. Ciao!