WHO'S TO BLAME?

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By Jonathan Rod Sitchon De Guzman
II-Robert Hooke


All we hear are the horrible news playing on our heads over and over again. Food prices are increasing, gasoline prices rise by one to two pesos in a day, rice prices increases, and student rallies nagging about high tuition fees; these are just a number of those atrocious moments of this nation. What can we do? Point fingers at each other? Hell no!

These issues are becoming a big pain on the neck for us. Some people may say that the government’s graft and corruption is the cause of all this. Can we blame them? Not really. Some people out there may hold genuine evidences of corruption happening in the government but still we can’t blame them. They’re still doing their part in lessening the record-high inflation rates of the country. Can we blame Mother Nature? Can we blame our Filipino counterparts? Can we blame others greed for wealth and power? No, there’s no one to blame.

Nagging, rallying, striking, blaming, and accusing will just fall to deaf ears. Nothing will really happen. Let’s not worsen this problem. We can’t return the lives of the dead on board the MV Princess of the Stars and decreasing the prices of commodities may take a long time to process. We’re just trying to make a small crack bigger and bigger, until it finally breaks.

Solving this problem may take longer than we really expect and think of.

The administration is exerting its best efforts to stop this spontaneous increase of prices. They are not just sitting there whining and debating the hell out of themselves. They make laws, implement them and in a span of time help their constituents. They are trying their best to fight poverty. They are trying to stop the skyrocketing of prices. They are trying to help. Their efforts have all been put to vain. People just keep on complaining; they won’t stop. Do you think they just have free food? They also buy their necessities. They are also affected by this aggravating issue.

Why do we need to complain anyway? Do we need attention? Are we that desperate? Face it! We’re wasting our precious energy for these non-stop exercises. Can’t you just help distribute rice to the pitiful people lining up just for some cheap rice? Can’t you just cooperate hand-on-hand with the government? Face it, we can’t do anything but this.

People are collaborating with the government in order to stop this crisis. They are trying to find alternatives to the known products in our country. They are trying to increase the yield of our crops. Some non-government organizations help in donating goods and other basic commodities to the needy.

Let us set them as an example, a model to follow, an outlook that we must exercise so that in the near future; we can be a model to others as well.

Problems like these have no answers if we think of it broadly; look at it intensively, try breaking it down to small specific details. Start finding solutions to the small problems first then maybe; just maybe, in the near future we will be triumphant; triumphant because we conquered one of the greatest challenges our race fought.