"cRICEsis"

Is there really a rice shortage in this land that produces most of the grains considered to be the staple food of the common Juan dela Cruz?! It’s such a big surprise that a country once considered to be an exporter of rice is now importing rice from other neighboring countries.

For the past months, with the growing media attention to the rice crisis that we have, you will really wonder whether (again), it was just another GMA’s strategy to remove the attention of the public with the current political hullabaloos and controversies bombarded to her administration. Is this administration playing politics, again and again?!

Honestly, when I first heard of this breaking news, I had qualms. Then, for almost everyday in the news it became bigger and bigger to the point of reported panic buying incidents of Pinoy community even in the USA and the obvious food crisis causing riots all over the world. It was a media rush of info and forums raising different views and opinions. Thus, intensifying the anxious Pinoys all over the world.

Let’s all face it all the commodities shot up like a fiery meteor up in the sky. But the salaries aren’t compensating with it. Thus, our daily lives get difficult and heavy. Tightening our belts and pushing ourselves inside a small blanket to cover our daily struggles. There isn’t only a rice crisis but electric, water, commodities and so on and so forth or economic crisis in general. Even though, the government keeps on instilling our minds that our economy is very booming. So, if that’s the truth, why the heck are we having a growing population of poverty?

I’m no economist or political person. I’m just a mere observer. And if my senses are still working its way up in my brain, I think there is really a rice crisis caused by hoarders, over pricing of rice and deficiency of allocating cheap rice to the lower class Pinoys and the government’s “inutile-ness”. Indigent Pinoys are getting poorer and poorer while Affluent Pinoys are getting filthy richer and richer everyday. That’s basically the problem here in our country, such thing, often than not, let me lose hope in our country’s progress. *sighs*

What we have is a tight spot in the world’s economy, in general. It’s a global phenomenon and that’s a fact! But the Philippines having in the downside, gets heavily affected by this recession of the mighty economies and putting us common Pinoys in a very sticky situation; coupled with corruption, mismanagement strategies and moral bankruptcy in the government. And I think that’s no brainer, Mrs. GMA!

So, better brace yourself, for it’s gonna be a long heavy difficult ride, kabayan!

And that’s my personal predicament…period!