What is going to happen to the RH bill?

Social and political criticisms

Will the Congress be able to pass the RH bill into law? Will PNOY be able to sign this into a law.  Please take note that PHL is the only Catholic nation in Asia and the church leadership has drawn the support of its pastoral councils (its  brethren) that there is going to be war.

I think this must not be a non issue now.  People realize that marriage and bearing children has become an economic burden, many are not marrying or are marrying at much later stages.  Yes this may be true in urban area.  But in rural areas, in agricultural areas, having more children is very functional;  the many children will be the farm hands;  they can not afford to pay the labor under a subsistence farming method.

And take note, that PHL high population growth is saving the day for our country.  The labor force PHL supplied to the world brought in nearly l0% contribution to  the GDP ($20 billlion) almost a trillion pesos.  That must have fueled a lot of consumer spending and even some investments.  Without that labor force abroad (that resulted from a rapid population growth)

And besides Japan and Korea which has a greying population needs a lot of workers?

Who else but PHL can provide that labor requirement.  And maybe they are praying too that the RH bill will not get passed.  It is going to be bad for their economic future.

What do you think?

Will the RH bill prosper?

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)