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For 36 years I argued with American classmates, teachers, relatives, and total strangers about the poverty of the Philippines while I was living in the United States. The Marcos Regime was a common jab on my side mostly to bring up we needed Americans and American tax dollars to survive as a nation. Our people living in the Philippines were likened to the blacks in the inner cities of the major cities and the white trash in rural America living on Social Welfare and Food Stamps.

 

Politicians and the military might want visiting forces here and their American experts but I think the working class that pay the income tax in America might differ with the presence unless of course the Value Added Tax in the Philippines was promised to the Americans that demean Filipinos and criticize the country but want to live in the islands not Arkansas?

 

Thank you for lumping us with China and India as a terrible economy with no future in surveys and new complied statistics because my TV news events show differently. The billionaires in rankings of the richest people on the planet recently included successful entrepreneurs from China and India. It gives me faith and hope for my birth country and I have plenty of writing ideas charity.

 

The families in America that built economies that has lasted for more than 100 years are the reasons the United States is a super economy and I use to admire the capitalists because we were taught in school many did not have college degrees or even a high school education and became the richest families in the world. Now that is competitiveness.

 

Factories in America were mostly for no college degree workers who could be trained with skills doing the same thing over and over and over again for eight hours with a lunch break. I should know even though I had two years of college credit because of dropping out. I was denied employment and was not qualified for first level management in local factories.

 

American workers without the proper education were able to feed their families and educate their children working in such menial factories. What is the difference with manufacturing microchips in ventilated air conditioned high tech buildings, you might need to know how to surf the Internet?

 

And the telemarketing high tech jobs of bothering people to buy whatever is displayed on their computer monitor might be in trouble with cellular phones and the users would be the ones more likely to buy high tech products. You can turn off a cellular phone or put it on text mode, losing that high pressure person to person sales pitch approach advantage.

 

How long will jobs for glorified telephone operators with keypunch skills last? Think of that for a second, Metro Manila! Most of the country does not have landline telephones even if our domestic delivery services improve.

 

Our population, like China and India and Indonesia, is our greatest advantage. Strength in numbers can develop our country faster than overseas remittance. We can feed China and India and they have the cash today to buy our natural resources even though with the billions of people on average is at the bottom of rankings in salaries and pupil/teacher ratios.

 

Indoor Warehouse Farming in the Philippines that our commercial farmers are capable of investing in to supplement current production output is possible, if you are worried about future flooding causing food shortages.

 

The Philippines environmental policy of recycling, the country could be as wealthy as oil producing nations because of used coconut cooking oil collected from families and fast food restaurants like Jollibee frying fried chicken and French fries. The biggest oil giants would pay market value for collected coconut cooking oil like hoarding national gold coins during inflationary times. The additive would lower the price of diesel and cleaner for the environment.

 

The used cooking oil can be added to regular diesel and will be a cleaner burning fuel to meet laws to protect the world blamed on automobiles, motorcycles, jeepneys, tricycle cabs, delivery trucks, and busses. Commercial airplanes? So why clean the fuel? Do the smoke testing!

 

Our native-born children are getting smarter. Students in a country with no future are arguing with Visiting Forces on a salary paid for by State and Federal Income Tax in America. Just because the soldiers are from the States, Filipinos automatically think they are from wealthy families. With the poverty around them Filipino kids know their parents were able to afford to send them to the best schools in Manila from their jobs in the Philippines.

 

The American Military wants to RETURN to the islands in full force with their families so their children can get a free education in the national elementary schools and automatic entrances to the Catholic private universities, testing free. A possible U.S.A. war with China is how the politicians in favor of the Visiting Forces Agreement are selling the peaceful invasion to convince the natives born in the Philippines to accept it.

 

The public schools in America I guess are not good enough for the American military. Bringing their families here would increase the number of pupils in the pupil/teacher ratio so say NO to the Visiting Forces Agreement instead of telling our Catholic Filipino children not to have families mandated by government.

 

At least we do not have to worry about the wealthiest families in the world wanting to outlaw the use of fighter jets and the space shuttles heating up the above commercial airlines atmosphere causing climate change and global warming destruction as an addition to nuclear missiles disarmament and stopping the testing. There certainly will be a change in America.

 

Without the Blue Angels of the United States Air Force will the United States continue to be a super power since even third world countries in Central America are not afraid of that National Guards and Reserves Attack Force?

 

We have to boil water to make coconut cooking oil from copra and to make table sugar from sugar cane. The waste water can be a new product. Why not collect rainwater, filter and purify with ceramic pebble beds and then turn the manmade geothermal steam into electricity. The collected rainwater all over the country used for electricity will keep water levels low more than any legislation government could pass in the form of taxation.

 

The radiation of the SUN used for supplementary electricity after heating the water is greener than the many uses of fossil fuels.

 

Because of the flooding of Metro Manila and the devastation of agricultural fields in Northern Luzon, anticipating and reacting to the future destruction and calamities are now part of the strategy to develop the archipelago so the glass was half full and safe enough to drink in the future.

 

The 7,107 islands have no winter weather so dependency on oil, natural gas, or nuclear to survive the freezing temperatures is not necessary for commerce and to educate children like in the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, northern Asia, China, and even North Korea.

 

Although in Philippine Pesos there are more young Filipino millionaires today because the American military bases were closed. The achievements are from entrepreneurship in retail marketing that creates jobs for the younger generations and success in marketing agricultural products and private enterprises in seafood farming.

 

An educated society with fighting Filipino spirit knows that buildings can be rebuilt and farm products grows back and seafood can always be cultivated, what more with the expected tropical rain every year with sunlight on sunny days as fossil fuels are projected to run dry in the long run.

 

On an episode of a science fiction TV show, Stargate SG-1, electric shock killed an alien living inside a human body but the person lived. Would electricity traveling the body cure cancer and brain tumors?

 

Dr. Frankenstein, I presume!

 

What if every Filipino health care professional scattered all over the globe promoted or prescribed natural medicine manufactured in Naga City, Philippines instead of the artificial poly plastic products from New York City, Kansas City, and Switzerland?

 

An alumni newsletter from the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest university in all of Asia, would achieve ten percent sales instantly with a recommendation article and a write up of the tangible facts to prove effectiveness.

 

The Philippines has the tropical vegetation to mass produce pharmaceuticals made from natural raw materials with the tropical rain for it to grow in great quantities. Our brightest young scientists from UST can stay to work in the pharmaceutical manufacturing company and research facility instead of going overseas.

 

Global Marketing Competiveness will be diversified in the next five years.

 

as of 10/22/2009 6:50 PM

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