As we enter the new year, it is good for us to consider how much ground we have covered, if any, in our journey toward our desired goal. Have we moved at all?  Are we moving?  Or have we just been running on a treadmill at an erratic pace? The question is moral, political, constitutional, economic.

Amidst the deluge of self-congratulatory press releases about credit upgrades, GDP growth, the epidemic  of shopping malls, the growing number of Chinese-Filipinos entering the annual Forbes magazine listing of dollar billionaires, and “traffic like hell as a sign of progress,” millions among our people are every second of the day joining the ranks of absolute slaves.

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