EJ-LOPEZ

The current economic roller coaster ride (growth?) and standstill we are partaking as regards our claim of economic advancement (real or reel?) seem ineffective, if we are to relate it to what the situation really is, as far as the life of the citizenry is concerned. Our experience of protracted “bull runs,” that was conceivably one of the longest in our history, has done nothing to effectively draw or erase the many years of perceived economic misrule and life wrenching hardship the people have experienced in the previous political eras. Everyone was already preparing for a positive turn of events that would have turned the tide to our favor and put us abreast with our more developed Southeast Asian neighbors come the Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) economic integration by 2015. But these turn of events seem to have not eased the burden, if not increased the burden, of some of our people’s economic “calvary.”

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