My concerns with the state of our nation

I am concerned that the Department of Energy has admitted that our power reserves are thin, and one major breakdown will set off dreadful power outages. We have had rotating brown-outs already as far north as in Tuguegarao City and elsewhere throughout Luzon. Mindanao led us by several months through this particularly painful Via Dolorosa. And it concerns me even more that despite all the dreadful forecasts of “days of darkness” ahead of us, I still have to hear of a coherent solution to the problem or, in the very least, to be candidly told that there is none!

I am concerned that a growing number Filipinos see their future outside the country, this in the face of boasts that hundreds of jobs have been created. Filipinos people the world not because we are a mighty nation out to subjugate the planet, but because misery at home makes us seek fortune abroad. It particularly disturbs me that despite well-documented reports of shabby treatment, if not maltreatment, at the hands of foreign employers, Filipino OFWs choose to remain abroad because they do not find prospects of decent employment here. Our government offered Filipinos in war-ravaged Libya repatriation, an offer they politely but resolutely declined. Returning, they said, was not any better an alternative!