BS Aquino playing on religious sentiments of Filipinos

In the news : Aquino leads national day of prayer   http://www.rappler.com/thewrap/january-20-2014-edition/aquino-leads-national-day-prayer

  

The president, in a bid to distract the attention of the Filipinos from his lack of actions on the disasters and other important national situations calls on the people to kneel down and pray.

Now, I have nothing against praying. It is a way of communicating with the Almighty. But like the Spanish colonizers of the past, BS is using religion to take the peoples’ mind away from the fact that the most serious problem of the nation as of now is B. S. Aquino III. Nay, I’ll rephrase it: the biggest national disaster is B. S. Aquino III himself.

The nation is facing a grave problem. The Visayan regions has suffered much with a double blow, the earthquake in Bohol and Cebu provinces and the hurricane that hit the Visayas. And his blunderings made it worse. Let us remember that the regions hit by the typhoon Pablo in Mindanao still has to recover from its effect nbecause of corruption and inefficiency in handling the assistance oprations, and the same thing is happening with the present disaster. The very first thing that the president has done is to find who is to blame and not what has to be done.

There is no need for a crystal ball to understand that the national ship is sinking, and the captain has no real idea how to save the ship. The quality of life for the Filipinos is deteriorating. Economy is not getting better, well to do Filipinos has begun complaining, too. (Asia Pulse Survey http://www.rappler.com/nation/48415-philippines-quality-life-survey)

Coverups in the true state of poverty by doctoring the poverty level figures in a try to show that there are less poor people in the Philppines., and shallow  economic growth where only the rich ang big corporation gained, growing unemployment and low salaries. (Ibon article Tanaw sa 2014: Ekonomiyang ampaw, diskuntentong aapaw).

 As citizens, we must advise this casique president to stop playing on our religious sentiments and start doing his job of leading the nation towards a better future.