Filosofo Tasio Lives
I attended a necrological mass yesterday, and the deceased wish was vs the passage of the RH bill. Well the deceased belongs to a very religious group. And we expect that the religious will have a vigorous stand vs the highly controversial bill.
We understand that the rationale for this bill is to rationalize the budget of the government vs a rapidly growing population. But legislating vs the reproductive practices of people may be approaching the limit of civil rights of the citizen and even moral rights. As it is flags and battle stations have been readied vs the bill and the admitnistration may be in for loss or embarrassment.
One of the reasons why the Philippine economy has been robust is because of dollar remittances from OFW? OFW remittances account for 20$ of our GDP.!! And which was responsible for this? Our countrymen who are on diaspora because of high population growth. For all we know, our growing population means country with ZPG or negative population growth can count on this country for more OFW: maids, seafarers, construction workers, entertainers. And it balances the worlds resources. Japan, SK and USA have top heavy greying population and their problem is lack workers in the future (they havent figured out yet how to make robots substitute for the dexterity and flexibility of human workers)
We sure have an advantage in this world's supply and demand situation for workers (as India and China have for now)
