Bad education is the cause of philippine poverty. Everyone must reorient themselves to Good Education. Good Education is the most precious wealth. Only in God you can find good.

Be educated: educate yourself, educate your family, educate your community, educate your nation for the development of all and not of the few. Be innovative to help others sustainably when you are at good atmosphere and earning much. If you are intelligent and have more work opportunities, leave your current work and find another one so that you can provide vacancy to those unemployed individual. If you are wealthy, your wealth is an oppotunity given to you by God so that you can demonstrate the processes you experienced with God and the world in making wealth to advance human civilization and eradicate poverty, that is you yourself had experienced.

Be educated first on basic human relations. You will be killed by the beast of the earth if you dont have knowledge of human relations- this will make your life at no count. Read the Holy Bible, it is the best source of knowledge on human relations and human living. Respect to one another is the term.

Be educated and take the most advantageous career and communication.

Be educated and dont foget food security. Modern Industries are their for the growth of human civilization. But, you must have basic knowledge of food security and ecology, that for any disaster you can stand at your own feet and help others: at least you know how to grow food with or without fertilizer, with critical water. You must have the knowledge of Noah, or the irrigation inteligence of the egyptian and romans or the engineer and physics thinking of Ifugao or the agroforestry knowledge of Adam.

Be educated in trade and market. Your surplus materials and foods are you wealth, learn to market them and sustain your industries.

Be educated in industries: learn manufacturing and industrial development. After the land are saturated with farmers, there is no more area to let others work. You need to process the suplus for future use. You may need equipments, energy and others. You need to mine materials to make machines and equipments to sustain your agriculture. You should know that agriculture is sustained by industrial production and metal machine manufacturing. Without industrial technology and machines your agricultural tools would be stones forever.

There are much more for us to know to advance our development and jump away from one dollar a day life.

It is you who can decide. Is is me who will decide. It is us. who can decide.

The previous years I always decided things and were done. I am happy for what God had done to me, at least I made help in my own little way and God was happy and I am happy too. You know I am not rich but I am a thinker. For this time again I will decide?.. I have my decision now. Do you have your decision now? Then lets move, let us get good education, let us work together or with one idea of going away from poverty, let us decide to install good leaders, let us go out make and gather capital, make good investment in the Philippines to generate job for all Filipinos, let us provide people with knowledge and assistance for sources of jobs. Only by then I, you, we can count: that we have done and not blame entities. After all you, as what you have seen and perceived, are the one responsible.

Pedro

I agree with everyone here specially “drippingmind’s comment on March 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pm” in that maybe poverty does not only exist in a physical sense. It’s in all of us and we have become accustomed to it. Have we forgotten who we are.. dammit!!! We’re FILIPINOS. We’re the people who fought and struggled for independence from colonial powers. We are the people who are looked down upon by everyone and yet we are capable of great achievements. Just type filipino achievers in google. It’s all there. We’re the people who can fix anything and who are full of talent to make a difference.

So why the need to ramble about all this stuff about ourselves. It’s because, we need to know who we are and what our standards are. We need to know that poverty is not part of each and everyone of us. We have to remove it off our system. Forget the government. They will not be of any help. If we want change…It will just have to start from us…from within.

The only difference is henry sy decided to be rich, while majority of the filipinos decided to just be poor and live in poverty.