War on Poverty?

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2009-07-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

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Where is my home?

2008-10-10T05:45:00.001-07:00

It would seem to me that there must be a place on this planet which I could call my home. That is becoming more and more difficult as I can see. Cagayan de Oro City has always been home to me and it was here that I found my roots. There are people that I know and friends I grew up with but they seem to be inhabiting a different planet or have evolved or mutated into beings I do not recognize anymore. Or, is it me who has mutated into something which is anathema?

It is good to plant lakatan in Cagayan de Oro City and to see the plants grow. It is also another thing to be sitting on a rock thinking about your life and what you think you could be doing. I am quite content that I have found a little haven where I now am.

I did see a whole new way of seeing myself and it is not at all pretty. This is how people see me and who knows, is this how a supreme being views me?

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Been There

2008-04-28T08:25:00.000-07:00

I have just been to Cagayan de Oro City and things are going well there for me as far as prospects are concerned. There are a number of projects that I could get involved in and it could take me away from the doldrums and lack of progress that I have recently found myself in. Many of the discussions that I have had while there involves the revival of Ching's World and how it could be used to create a base of operations which could be used to effect some very necessary changes in the way that the world works today.

I have had this dream where a system could be created that will help alleviate the difficulty that many people feel these days. The system is not secret. Nor is it even hidden or esoteric. It is with us everyday and this is used by insects to successfully maintain the health of their colony and to colonize other parts of the world.

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Acceptance

2008-04-06T06:51:00.000-07:00

Acceptance. I accept. I realize that this is the way that it is going to be. I resisted, I fought, I struggled to defeat it and at last I see the reality of the thing, this is my life. I accept this. I will no longer fight it. This is how it will be from now on.

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Heavy and ponderous

2007-12-21T04:04:00.000-08:00

Heavy and ponderous, pretentious and empty. All our words speak of nothing but merely echo the hollowness that we feel inside. So we bluster and mouth big words that mean nothing and even if we know that we are fooling no one, least of all ourselves, we still continue in that vein hoping that something or someone will stop us. It is all nonsense, it is all bullshit but we go an dish out this bullshit day in and day out.

It does not matter, even Jesus Christ himself said there is nothing that can be done about the poor people . What did he mean? What was he talking about? Was Judas wrong in wanting to right a world that is upside down?

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The Poor Is With You Always

2007-10-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

The poor will always be there and so will the rich. There is nothing that indicates any sudden change in the order of things very soon. We might not like it, it might run counter to our idea of fairness and social justice but the fact remains, there is no uniformity in the universe except for the consciousness that is reflected in each and every one. To end poverty, this has been the goal of many people but to what extent will this succeed? The intention is good but would the universe change its very nature just to suit the emotional meanderings of some people? And how sincere are these thoughts and intentions?

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I am pretty sure that nothing will change except for the person who chooses to try and change the situation regarding poverty. Mother Teresa did not change the situation but it surely changed her in a profound way and she changed those who shared her emotions. People have to open their eyes and see the world with compassion. The Buddha learned this and dedicated his life to bringing enlightenment to people. The poverty of material things was less important than the poverty of the soul.

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Poverty is solidified thoughts

2007-08-17T18:49:00.000-07:00

One can say that the world is nothing more than the solidified thoughts of people. Most people are poor in imagination. They cannot break through the barriers that their minds have accepted for them, imposed perhaps by their present circumstances and reinforced by everybody else they meet. They hear "you're no good" and they accept it as truth, as fact, as immutable hence, they perpetuate that situation by repeating it in their minds.

We all hear, "what can I do? I am just one person." Nothing could be further from the truth because our person connects to the very core of the Universe. As the great Teacher said, an ant is just as important as the elephant. The untimely death of an ant could set up cataclysms in the world or even in pulsars and quasars. Nothing is unimportant in this universe.

This world is is wracked by poverty, that is easy to see. This situation doesn't have to be that forever. Ching's World dreams of a great world where poverty exists only as a memory in people's minds. Ching's World is but a small electrical pulse that undulates in the World Wide Web but it's desires are great and it dreams great dreams.

The Rat Race

2006-07-10T09:38:00.000-07:00

The mad race to advance oneself economically has been termed the Rat Race. Does this sctually describe the mad dash to accumulate wealth and profits? Are we rats? I don't know much about rats but I do know one thing: they are very successful in colonizing the world. They proliferate very efficiently. This must mean that rats are able to share with other rats the bounty of this world. That would be a remarkable achievement, I believe. We do not hear of poor tats dying of hunger the way we see people on television dying of malnutrition. We do not see baby rats so emaciated they cannot even turn their eyes to the other side.

I would surmise that rats have a better way of sharing and distributing wealth. What can we say about human beings who are supposedly more intelligent and more sophisticated than rats? I cannot imagine Rat Philosophers or Rat Presidents or Rat Politicians talking about sucking it up and sacrificing for the good of the Rat Nation. One thing is obvious: rats do it better than us.

We have all the technology in the world, all the military hardware, all the productive resources capable of producing unlimited products, all the hawks and doves and bleeding hearts and hard-asses; and we have Poverty. I don't understand this. This doesn't make sense to me.

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Why fight the war on poverty? Bill Gates in focus.

2006-06-18T17:13:00.000-07:00

It is very evident to me that the problem of poverty has nothing to do with being charitable or of giving to mendicants and giving free food. The Jesuits preach a very eloquent slogan: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds himself for life." This sounds very wise and altruistic and rids one of the need to be bothered by conscience when one sees homeless people sleeping under bridges. If the waters are all fished out by the big fishing trawlers how will a poor man with a small hook and line fare? I hate to state the obvious. All of these sayings and pseudo-brilliant pronouncements are totally bogus and reflects a lazy man's position on a very vital issue. Most faiths and religions preach that all men are brothers. I believe this to be true and DNA evidence backs up my belief so I can safely say that I KNOW this to be true literally and not metaphorically. How can one preach about brotherhood while holding large investments in Blue Chip corporations and being blind to the problem of Poverty?

Bill Gates has announced his semi-retirement where he is transitioning towards a full retirement in two years time. He plans to devote his time to charitable work. Charity is all good especially since he is well blessed with a ruthless business sense that allows him to lord it over everyone else. Microsoft has taken over from IBM the unenviable role of everybody's favorite demon and a target for enthusiastic iconoclasts and independent-minded mavericks. Without a doubt Bill Gates has a lot of money to give away and he will always be first in the books of the recipeints of his dole outs. Charitable contributions are also tax deductible so he is not really giving away anything that will not be taken from him anyway. He is just sharp. You could really admire the man for what he has achieved in his lifetime.

Will his charitable work make a dent on the problem of poverty? He is following in the footsteps of countless other charities that are very good in giving away money while making a lot of money. His publicized intention is to teach people to fish, to educate them; to take them from the ranks of the poor and turn them into wealthy successes who will in turn use their energies and intelligence to perpetuate a vicious cycle for, the more wealthy people are created the more poor people are also being made. Making a man wealthy and successful does not diminish the number of poor people. Education will equip a man to buy a fishing trawler and attempt to fish out all the fishes in the ocean ergo, more hardship for those who are hard up. This type of charity really only makes more poor people. Does his brilliant mind and all the brilliant minds of the good Jesuits not see that charity will not work? that education will not work? I propose that the problem of poverty is intimately bound to the question of distribution: the inequitable distribution of wealth. Chew on that Bill Gates and Jesuits and all you charitable institutions who have made it a business to beg from others to give to beggars.

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A problem without solution

2006-06-06T05:59:00.000-07:00

Is it possible that poverty is a problem which no can can every solve? There are many people whose social conscience compels them to do something about the problem of poverty. In truly socialistic societies like the Scandinavian countries where incomes are higher than most, there is an advanced system of social welfare where a mnimun living standard is provided by the state. In essence, it is difficult to find any one really destitute in the Scandinavian countries.

A story is told of a missionary who wanted to give free vegetarian food to needy people in Sweden. He was politely turned down by all but one man who was getting on in years. After the man had a hearty meal, he offered his congratulations to his host for such a delicious meal and asked for his check.. In many developed countries there is a higher sense of responsibility for providing the basic necessities of life. However, in under-developed countries, the problem of poverty is beyond description.

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Lifting oneself by one's bootstraps

2006-05-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

Self-reliance is a nice word. It is a good word and can go a long way towards making something of yourself. Computers do it all the time. A small program to give it a push and it's off and running doing wonderful things. They say a caged bird will not fly away when its cage doors are opened. So with people. Constant brow-beating and belittling and exploiting can deprive a man of a sense of being capable of changing his life. He becomes a burden on the government and a big bother to society. Having a lot of time in his hands and with nothing productive to occupy himself with, his mind turns to all kinds of stupid nonsense which only gets him in trouble.

He does nothing and accomplishes nothing so he over-compensates by talking. Drinking and getting drunk helps him along in his plight to escape from his own skin. This leads to more trouble for him. Multiply him with the multitudes like him and it becomes a big social problem. While the achievers and go-getters are getting ahead and becoming more and more wealthy and important, they leave behind a great many who would tend to become parasites and sycophants, hangers-on who do nothing but gravitate towards those who can buy them a beer or a hamburger.

The achievers in their never-ending quest for heights to climb eventually become so important they must lead the people; so they get nominated to political positions which makes them even more powerful and great. This feeds the destructive cycle of Patronage and Parasitism. ------

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Erap para sa mahirap

2006-05-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

The slogan that propelled President Joseph Estrada to the top political position in the Philippines can be translated as "Estrada for the poor". Not only was Estrada a shccessful and popular movie actor, he was also a political overlord of his city, from which position he laumched a staggering juggernaut which no one could oppose or block. He parlayed this drawing power to a seat in the Philippine Senate, the Vice-presidency and ultimately the Presidency of the Republic of the Philippines. He is percieved to be not just a champion but also a member of the masses, a mystique he cultivated by speaking broken English in his movies and shrewdly exploited by his Promotion handlers. Couple this with the fact that he dropped out of school to pursue his career as an actor, never mind that the school he left was the premier elite school of the country and the as Champion of the Masses is complete.

He sported a wristand and always wore his signature jacket as befitting a tough guy and not a politician. He looked more a hoodlum with a heart for the poor than a statesman with a plan to lead his country to prosperity. That he was swept into power with an unprecedented majority is beyond question or scrutiny. That he was ousted from power so soon after his electon is also without question when his chief cohort Chavit Singson accused him of being more a crime boss running organized gambling than a President tending to the welfare of his people.A multifaceted personality, Erap as he is fondly called by his friends and admirers also has a Casanova reputation which enhances his Macho image.

Multinational corporations

2006-05-21T04:11:00.000-07:00

Business enterprises usually get their start from the industry and inventiveness of one man, and his drive and energy propels his business to a measure of success. With each success comes a powerful resource: capital. A businessman is usually an intelligent man with a special kind of hunger: a desire to accumulate surplus. This might be the reason why most of them are called Fat Cats. When he accumulates enough surplus he then embarks on a program of expansion and acquisition. The first thing that he acquires is land which he knows to be scarce and he doesn't want to be paying rent. In so doing he takes possession of three of the four fundamental factors of production namely:

Land
Capital
Enterprise

The fourth factor of production is Labor and it is something that he can buy but not control completely and is often a constant source of problem and irritation to him, the businessman. Labor is something that he cannot really take possession of since it consists of individual people like himself. So he dreams of minimizing his need for labor by inventing automated systems and robot arms and computers and other technological gadgets and gizmos. Even with all the technology at his command he still needs people to operate the machines and equipment.

Having Land, Capital added to his Enterprise, he becomes all-powerful. He begins to grow more and more and soon he joins up with other Enterprisers to form a bigger and more efficient unit of production. The corporation was invented to ensure the growth of business according it with unprecedented power and leeway in conducting its business. Laws are enacted to grant corporations tax breaks and myriad incentives to keep it growing more and more. Profits have to grow or the very existence of the corporation is threatened which is a threat so powerful that cities and communities and even countries bow down to the whims and caprices of corporations. Every community woos corporations to set up plants and offices in their areas because it means jobs and prosperity for all.

Raw materials in abundant quanities are often widely dispersed geographically hence the need to establish different corporate entities in various countries.This technique allows the corporation to minimize expenses while achieving tax incentives. This is a natural necessity in the evolution of the corporation into a global phenomenon.

Jobs.....more jobs

2006-05-18T20:34:00.000-07:00

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has also declared war on Poverty and her rallying cry is "Improve the Economy". She says that luriing foreign investors into the Philippines will result in the creation of more jobs and make a dent on the poverty situation. She is an economist educated in the United States. She boasts former United States President Bill Clinton as her classmate in the university. She must know what she is talking about. At a glance, one could see how it would be logical for wealth to trickle down to the poorer rection of society if more jobs were available. This was the mantra of the Republicans who were roundly trounced by the Democrats when the economy started slowing down. "Trickle-down economics" they called it. It favors big business, giving all sorts of tax breaks in order to make them more profitable and somehow in some magical way, some of the wealth would trickle down to thte general population.

No one has been able to solve the problem of Poverty notwithstanding the number of brilliant minds there are in the world today. Six billion people and counting and each one is trying to keep himself in the forefront of wealth accumulation or to keep himself from sliding into the dark, unnumbered mass of poor people. The Filipino is derided as having a crab mentality when he exhibits the tendency to climb over others to better himself that is, at the expense of those he has stepped on. I think this is a slur on the crab which probably has a much better plan of survival otherwise, there wouldn't be so many crabs today. The world has produced a Bill Gates who at the height of his wealth had an estimated personal value of almost 100 Billion dollars And we have homeless people even in America. Imagine that.

Why this preoccupation with poverty?

2006-05-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

Why indeed? I am certain that it has something to do with my life now. I am one of the useless people that I wrote about in my previous post. There is not much reason for God to keep me hanging around if one is to consider economic viability as the major reason for being. Very simply I am talking of survival. The most basic instinct there is in any creature is Self-preservation. Even the most miserabnle and abject of creatures has a strong sense of Wanting-to-stay alive. Why is it difficult to survive in a Technologically advanced world? I am not talking about corporate survival but keeping body and soul together survival. Can blogging help? He he he.

One only has to open the TV to see poverty and disease pervading the earth. There is no dearth of highly-evolved sensibilities which agonize about this and do their utmost best to alleviate it. But there is also apathy and a feeling of "what can I do? I am just one person", of helplessness and impotence in the face of insurmountable odds. On the other side of the spectrum there are the politicians (who in third-world countries invariably are corrupt and calloused which is not to say developed nations do not have their share of these too) and the large multinational corporations who make daily worship to their idol of Profits.

Is there an inverse relationshiop between Profits and Poverty?

Useless People

2006-05-06T02:17:00.000-07:00

They are the ones who have no economic reasons for being. Today's world is all about money and youth and beauty and power and excellence. You see banner headlines screaming: The year's most beautiful women, The most eligible bachelor, Oscar award-winning actors and producers as if these were the only things that this world is made of. Everyone wants to be a god or a goddess of beauty, sports, achievement. Great wealth awaits those who climb above the rest and be better than the best of them. The promise of extreme pleasure and gratification beckons to all who would desire the dream.

What about being ordinary? Or being less than ordinary? What of those who have tasted the fruit of success and who got kicked in the gut by vice and weakness? We have TV series about them too. "Where are they now?" Fame and fortune are hard taskmasters. No on lives forever. Even Charlton Heston who in his prime cut a more than heroic figure, a man sent by God himself . Look at him now in the twilight of his life and I see a mere caricature of a gun-toting Moses. I am sure he thinks of himself as making a difference in this world and that his point of view is a shoulder above the rest. He holds a rifle like he held a staff to part the Red Sea. It's a hollow, pathetic figure that I see even though I am sure there are many who believe he would lead them to the promised land of gun-ownership.

Does man have an intrinsic value? Or does he have to be rich and famous to have a meaningful life? What of those who have nothing to claim as their legacy? I remember the Poem Ozymandiaz which speaks of a gigantic foot in the desert proclaiming his power and glory to all who would see. Nothing remains of his monument except a foot which crows: "look upon me and tremble". The sands of the desert has obliterated his greatness and all he has left are hollow words which could not prevent the inexorable march of entropy.

Do useless people have intrinsic value? Those who have no econimic reasons for being? Are they to be kicked aside like dogs in the streets? Does Mother Teresa see something which I cannot see?

War on Poverty

2006-05-05T11:38:00.000-07:00

Woody Allen once wrote that having been moved by the stirring words of a politician declaring "war on poverty", he threw a had grenade at a homeless person. He is a comic genius and his sense of humanity perhaps let slip a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness in ever being able to do anything about poverty aside from killing poor people in one big explosion That was a few decades ago and the absurdity of it all still causes me to smile confusedly. A few months ago. I saw Bono on television with President Clinton and it appeared to me that they were spearheadin the United Nations drive to eradicate poverty by the year 2012. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines has made a big fuss about poverty. So what is all the big buzz about poverty?

Didn't Jesus himself considered the hopelessness of the question when He said "the poor you have with you always" when He was in the last hours of his life. One reads of bountiful harvest in the United States being plowed under in order to protect market prices while in many parts of the globe have nothing to eat. One sees the faces of emaciated children in Somalia tugging at the heartstrings of Audrey Hepburn. It is a profoundly powerful image that caused President Clinton to send humanitarian aid which eventually led to the massacre of American troops in the hands of Somali gunmen at the instigation of warlords.

So what is the war on poverty really all about? I see beggars on thte streets eveyday and I remember what my classmate said to me once, echoing the wisdom that a Jesuit education gave us: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. I was pitching to him my program of feeding some children that day. He said that I was merely just gratifying myself emotionally and that I wasn't really doing anything to make a dent in the situation.

I remember telling him that I was not really interested in the big, deep questions but rather I was more interested in seeing children smile. I called it "manufacturing happiness". He was right in describing the exercise as merely emotional gratification. Anyway, I did not accept his money. The feeding program didn't really cost that much and I was kind of pissed at his reaction. He he he.