Just making it clear, thanks :)

Thanks for your concern.

the leaders who have access to resources and power should create the climate conducive to creating small as well as big business to employ our people.

our manpower resources are okay. the opportunities aren’t.

I can relate to you benigs but let’s do something for them in a higher level, beyond our individuality. Leave the men who urinate on the wall. They don’t know any better but we do. :)

Are you implying that “non urinal enlightenment” is the monopoly of Filipino migrants abroad?

But I came to believe that people are naturally born traders regardless of education or professional status. We are social animals, very much into social exchange. Pinoys are surprisingly generous. “You do something for me and I do something for you”. The benefits of market exchange are easy to see in personal interactions. Out there in the free markets though, the people who receive from the many and expected to be the fews are not clear. malabo talaga… :)

the best systems maximize the freedom of the individual, subject only to the constraints of others in the system. Take note of “Constraints” benigs :) i am a classic liberal. My personality will not fit in a country were freedom do not exist. I can relate to you benigs but let’s do something for them in a higher level, beyond our individuality. Leave the men who urinate on the wall. They don’t know any better but we do. :)

I cite Pinoys abroad as way of pointing out that we have the right attitude if given the right opportunities

Notice, jcc how we always come back to the big “IF” part of what is now becoming a circular discussion.

… if given the right opportunities…

Obviously then the issue is where those “opportunities” will be coming from. Turn that passive sentence into an active sentence and we become a bit more clear about where the missing ingredient lies, thus:

If _______ gives us the right opportunities…

Fill in the blanks… ;)

I find that people tend to construct sentences in the passive form to avoid the hard questions.

I said we need leaders who will inspire and lead us through the crisis by creating opportunities in our country. Our people have the right work ethics, we simply lack the opportunity: jobs and business that will employ our compatriots. :)

The leaders should provide the atmosphere to invite capital investment locally and from abroad.

I cite Pinoys abroad as way of pointing out that we have the right attitude if given the right opportunities. :)

Seriously, though, Jon…. what do you expect the OFW to do about Pinas job-creation? Other than contribute to the education of their kids, siblings, or clan… or buy condos or house-and-lot on installment-plan in Fort Boni or Clark, what else can an OFW prudently do —- remote-manage a sari-sari store in Taguig?

I want them to stop sending their children to school for the sole purpose of following their footsteps in going abroad as an OFW, and start thinking about improving their lives here in the Philippines so that no further generations will suffer the consequences of remote-fatherhood or remote-motherhood, which is a much, much bigger issue than remote-managing a sari-sari store.