Worldwide celebration of Labor Day was today. In the Weste they're still celebrating it, but here in the Philippines it's almost over.

I don't usually post about stuff like this but I felt the need to post about it now. Cuz it's just sad.

I was watching the news where they featured several countries and how they celebrated Labor Day. They showed Singapore and it was pretty nice. They showed Korea and it was orderly. They showed Russia or Poland I think (sorry, wasn't paying attention) and it was going well. Then they showed the Philippines, and it made me sad.

It seems customary for the world to hold rallies during Labor Day. These rallies don't necessarily have to be protests. And the world seems to have gotten it down. But the Philippines, what with our excess of "democracy", took it as an opportunity to throw another set of baseless and/or meaningless complaints against the government and demanding unreasonable and even sometimes downright stupid solutions of our president.

Though our Labor Day rally wasn't violent, it did feature some people yelling against the government as if it's torture to their souls, including an old lady who didn't even have her front teeth. Yeah, right. Like she's one of the working force who should be participating in Labor Day. Or maybe she is. But that's still sad. All they're doing is complaining, and I wouldn't be surprised if some or many of them don't really know anything about what they're complaining about.

Now, I'm not one to complain about anything. I rarely ever find myself complaining because whenever something isn't going my way, my first reaction would be to shut up and think of a solution to get out of it. Often times I would end up praying, though it should be always. I don't always agree with our government either, but I never once thought that our current president was doing a bad job.

The economy is doing well. It was almost constantly getting better and better during the entirety of her stay in office. I saw a lot of important programs being carried out, in terms of housing, industry, economy, environment, etc. Even her cabinet members have proven to be effective at least to some extent. Even the PNP has stepped up recently. The Philippines isn't broken anymore, despite what some of those parties opposed to the country want us to think. And most importantly, if God wanted Gloria to stay in office, no force in heaven or earth could possibly remove her from there. Alternately, if God wanted Gloria out, no force in heaven or earth could possibly keep her in place.

With that, I make the following bold statement: I believe that God is using our president to help fix our country.


What are these people complaining about? Listen to how ridiculous it is:

- They're blaming Gloria for the increase in prices in the world market, such as oil, etc. I can't even imagine how that could possibly be her fault.

- They're blaming her for the rice shortage. There's a possibility that this is true, based on what researchers say, but the important thing is that she's doing what she can to help fix the problem. And you can see she's working on it. Still, it's ridiculous to blame a worldwide natural phenomenon on a human president.

- They're asking for higher wages. Economic analysts have already said that these wage increases might be detrimental to the economy. I understand that the poor people are suffering, but in reality if our economy goes bad, they'll suffer even more, and they'll take those in the lower-middle class or more with them. Also, how can they have the guts to complain so much about wages being so high when they spend so much money on cigarettes, beer and other alcoholic beverages, and even drugs in some cases, etc.?

To change this country, we do not need to start from the top. We need to start from the bottom. What good is it if our president is the most brilliant example of all time when the regular citizens are corrupted themselves?

That's all. I didn't want this to be too long but I was getting annoyed at all these people. Had to get this stuff off my chest.