Who’s to blame for the looming rice shortage(and possible famine) in the Philippines?

These days the imbeciles and clowns in malacanang(that cursed palace!) are crowing about a projected shortage of Filipino’s staple food – the beloved rice. How outrageous,, this despite the very visible fact that the Philippines is an archipelago supposedly blessed with large swaths of arable, fat land which could be utilized for producing life-sustaining agricultural products such as corn and rice.

And now, they are wringing their heads in consternation at what to do come the threat of famine.

But who is mainly to blame for this dismal state of affairs?

Concerned Filipinos must remember that the government in the past years had removed rice plantations in favor of sugarcane fields and other plants which the Arroyo administration claimed will produce bio-fuel.

The hell with this bio-gas joke. Look at the mess were in now. They’ve eradicated the abundant rice fields just for the silly experiments to make alternative fuels and still we are still importing oil.

Nobody’s to blame for this problem but this flimsy excuse of a state government which we have now.

Questions, unanswered questions that have been nagging my mind all these years finally goaded me, after personal deliberations and continuing emotional struggle, to seek a quiet corner of the web where I can pour-out my resentments, frustrations, and dissilusionment on the present state of affairs now plaguing our nation.

I live and was born here in the Philippines, officially called the Republic of the Philippines, more often than not branded as the sickest man of Asia, sometimes called the mail-oder-bride country, and of course, the doormat and laughingstock of the rest of the "civilized and enlightened world".

There was a time, and it seemed like eons ago, when our country was the economic powerhouse in Southeast Asia and our country, led by a dedicated bureaucracy, was poised to spearhead the Asian thrust for economic recovery and greatness after a devastating world war. We boasted a massive steelmaking and cement producing industries that served as the backbone of national reconstruction and infrastracture efforts to hopefully prepare the Philippines for the future.

Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong in the highest level of our government and society that ultimately will cost us lowly Filipinos the loss of collective national pride and steem that are needed badly to fuel the quest for national greatness. By some cruel twist of fate, the Filipinos were duped into electing into the highest position in the land a most cunning crook and tyrant that bled our country white and devastated our national economy by rampant graft and corruption and left the Philippines burdened with a horrific national debt .

more to come... Alex Argote