What “Wokes” Fail to Get about Poverty
The “woke” social justice warriors do what they do because their assumptions about poverty and suffering on earth are wrong. My impression is that they are like the vegan “activist” …
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Communist fronts like the League of Filipino Students believe they are God’s Gift to Filipino nationalism
Kabataan Partylist Representative Sarah Elago has it all wrong. What Filipino “nationalists” believe to be things that make a great nation are all obsolete. If we are to believe people …
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Filipinos should stop helping the poor through the Roman Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church is, no doubt, one of the wealthiest and most influential foreign-based multinational businesses in the Philippines. Even more outrageous is that they don’t pay taxes. They’ve …
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True or False: Filipinos are not stupid, they just need more money
The statement may sound like the Philippine equivalent of the African expression “Africa is not poor, it is only poorly managed.” Many onion-skinned Pinoy-pride crybabies out there will find this …
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The late Henry Sy is NOT the bad guy in the story of Philippine poverty. FILIPINOS are.
Last we recall, the Philippines is propped up by overseas foreign workers (OFWs) to the tune of 10% of its economy and Filipino households down to the lower middle classes …
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New #MissUniverse Catriona Gray proves Filipinos need to GET REAL about poverty
The Philippines’ newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray remarked that there is “beauty” in poverty in the interview section of the pageant which was held in Manila, Philippines this year. The …
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Filipinos need to get better at killing in order to prosper
The seeming aversion of Filipinos to large-scale infrastructure projects — the sorts needed to achieve the vast economies of scale needed to compete in the global market likely stems from …
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Basic principles of inflation explained for dummies
So-called “investigative” journalist Raissa Robles had a laugh at my Twitter post the other day about Philippine inflation. She wasn’t specific about why she thought I didn’t know what I …
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