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From: NO SUPPLY OF RICE FROM THAILAND ANDVIETNAM
Date: 07 May 2008
Time: 03:20:18 -0400
Remote Name: 71.110.6.47
This rice crisis is the result of Filipino culture who look down on farmers as failure people which means if you cannot pass school then your destiny is farming. This is bullshit. The biggest problem for this rice crisis is compounded even more because the government which is suppose to have farm program like those industrialized countries, our own Philippine government has has a stupid farm program run by corrupt stupid officials. It does not make sense to import cheap rice from surplus from other countries which we have been importing for many years mostly under Arroyo administration who ordered her military to kill rice farmers in the hinterlands because the President of the Philippines accused them of being NPA members. Todays rice crisis is costing the Filipinos billions of pesos. Take for example, we have been buying rice recently from surplus rice from other countries at high price then sell it to Filipinos at low price because Arroyo is scared of riots. While we are buying rice at higher cost, we are actually giving billions of pesos to the farmers in countries where we are buying rice from. If this billions of pesos were otherwise given to the Filpino farmers, equipped them with tools, machineries, fertilizer and government training for productive planting, then we Filipinos will become sufficient and we might be able to sell our surplus rice. It is a wasted billions buying high and selling low which the loss is the profit of other countries. NOW THAT THAILAND AND VIETNAM SAY THEY CANNOT SELL RICE TO FILIPINOS BECAUSE THEY WANT FOOD SECURITY FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE, what would Arroyo do now for the crisis she created. Would she tell the Filipinos to eat kamote, What is the Philippine Congress doing for the lack of leadership under Arroyo administration. With so many stupid minds running the country, the Philippines is still sinking. WHY CANT WE TRY THE CPP. Maybe they have better minds.