RP’s Educated Elite Mismanaged the Country for Generations

by Mr Oldtowner for Rus in Urbe February 29, 2008

Today’s political leaders and government officials of the Philippines are part of the generational structure of the elite families who controlled almost all the resources of the nation in which their power and clout encompasses the business sector, agricultural and commercial lands, the mining sector, utilities, media and other services that connects the entire Filipino nation.

The Philippines is composed of regions that culturally and traditionally distinct from each other but they have the same class of elite families that rule over their respective domain like queens and kings with armed troops of their own. They are feared by their people and blindly follow their command in every opportunity that may takes like election.

These elite classes of Filipinos are voted into office in succession because they send their sons and daughters to expensive schools in the country and in the US and Europe. Upon return, they succeed their father, mother until the cycle is repeated. In this case, to recoup their heavy spending studying abroad, they put up a business; to plunder the nation and presto they recovered their investments ten times over.

The elite class developed a habit of “fill-my-tummy” mom, dad…and so malcontent they become. They converged in Imperial Manila to make partnership among them and to seek higher office as leaders of the Filipino nation. Nay! Not good leaders but plunderers, oppressors and violators of democracy. They don’t want the Filipino nation to grow because their business will be gone.

Mind you, these educated elite hold law degrees, business management, economics, finance and other heavy educational knowledge that the US and Europe can give. But for Christ sake!!! Where is the Philippine now? 65% of the Filipinos are poor and half of them depend on orts or leftover foods, the new “national food” of the Philippines.

F.Y.I. Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is Harvard educated elite with master’s degree in economics and a classmate of former US President Bill Clinton. She is also the daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal.