‘Super Pinays’ in harm’s way

Dear Filipinas,

Those of you who leave the Philippines in search of jobs, money and food, you deserve what you get: maltreatment and humiliation. Go ahead and be sexually assaulted! Go and jump from the balcony and risk killing yourself! Go out on Sundays and have a picnic in a Hong Kong park with your fellow ‘katulongs’ and be taunted as ‘monkeys eating bananas.’
YOU DESERVE IT! Don’t blame the Philippine government or the status quo.

If only your president’s economy was able to generate more jobs and make the cost of living here less expensive, I’m sure many of our poor kababayans would rather stay here.

But it seems that si Arroyo pa ang No. 1 recruiter ng OFWs para sa Saudi Arabia at Hong Kong para maging “SuupaMeido”. She’s a failure pag-dating sa job generation, so might as well send our filipino teachers overseas to work as maids in HK.

Blame yourselves for leaving the Philippines, for being afraid to speak up and protest what needs to change in our own country.

Well, the admin still continues to implement CPR in spirit, via BP 880.

You chose to turn your back from your responsibility here at home. You chose to elect mostly idiots in office.

Well, the people did not vote the Arroyo administration into office, the biggest source of instability, corruption, and division in our country today.

Reports like this don’t bother me anymore. In the end, the government is not to blame. It is those who choose the easy way out rather than tackling corruption at home. Don’t expect special treatment in other countries when you don’t even demand it here in the Philippines. You deserve every physical and emotional abuse in Hong Kong, Lebanon, et al because you were a coward to begin with in your own country. SO STOP COMPLAINING AND HAVE A PATHETIC LIFE BEING A KATULONG!

Sincerely, Rye Bosco

Nice of you to talk about “tackling corruption”, Ryebosco, since you’re one of Arroyo’s biggest apologists.

Rye Bosco are you adding insult to the injury? You mean to say these “katulong” are the main voters that decide the outcome of an election? Ang labo nun ha! Sa pagkakaalam ko wala namang nagreklamo na katulong individually. The noise is coming from the NGO’s superimposed by the media.

There is nothing wrong of being maid in a foreign land for financial reason. The real issue is what is the government doing to minimize (if not eradicate) the event of abuse to happen?

1. What our government is doing to stamp the undocumented workers from leaving the country?
2. What our embassies in the foreign land are doing to prevent abuses and promote equality.
3. What kind of promotion does our government do to educate this maid to be prior to leaving the country?
4. What is the program of our government to counter the image of Filipina being a maid in the international arena?

Have you ever heard of what is happening in India now? They too suffered from the brain drain and maid export for so many years but look now, as the economy of India move up most of those expats are coming back home, even the children of those who are born in the foreign land. Can’t his government learn from that? It’s the economy that drives this things to happen, it’s the financial necessity that dictates.

The problem is that our government has no plan at all to reverse the trend. I believe that you are simply barking wrong.

Rye Bosco’s comments are out of order and very insulting! I wish he does not have any relatives that are in the same situation as our katulongs! I have the strong feeling that Rye is one of those in the ivory towers of the Philippines society that does not know how to be poor, lambast the poor for their weaknesses and misfortune! I wish I could change Rye’s stupid comment because for the many poor in the Philippines, we could not call them stupid servants or like katulongs who bravely go out of the country in search for a better pasture. There’s nothing wrong with that Rye! There’s absolutely wrong in your mentality that would have cause you to utter these stupid and insulting comments! My friend Rye please look at yourself in the mirror first! If you don’t want how things are going in the Philppines, you’re the first that should go out! This is because, no matter how hard our people struggle in their lives, they are not that stupid or helpless to make any political change. The Philippines is not absolute a dictatorial state or military state where you could not oust an officials from office. Rye you have yet to realize and perhaps witness how the poor people, including the katulongs, were able to get rid of a dictator. As long as Filipinos struggle to live in dignity, despite some of the abuses hurled at them, esp. those of our women in foreign soil, we must be very proud of them for having opted the peaceful way of effecting change. Do you want these katulongs and other foreign workers, in their despair and hopelessness, go to the mountain and eventually the cities to boot out the oligarch, the corrupt official, the military, the innocent civilians who will be killed in the crossfire, etc.? Do you know Rye that the sibllings of these OFW’s are better educated because their parents have toiled so hard to put them in better schools? Do you know Rye that these OFW’s and their siblings, one day will transform the country into a better society? Be patient Rye! Be appreciative of what our OFW’s are sacrificing. Please don’t insult them so much because even they may have temporarily lost their rights to effect change for being away in the country, there are still those who carry the banner of change, for the good, in the country these OFW’s holds so dear! Rye please stop this insult! I hope someday you’ll realize how our OFW’s have done great deeds to the country you also hold very dear!

johnmarzan…ever heard of ‘sarcasm’…? it’s a sense of humor sometimes. In response to your comment, I suggest you re-read what I wrote carefully:

“Nice of you to talk about “tackling corruption”, Ryebosco, since you’re one of Arroyo’s biggest apologists.”

Johnmarzan, you assuming I’m an Arroyo apologist because you misunderstood my previous comment is way off.

Mac.bh, ikaw ang malabo. Read the newspapers and watch the evening news para hindi ka malabuan sa mga iyak ng mga kababayan natin na naglilinis ng kubeta? Do what I told johnmarzan and re-read what I have written above. Secondly, I don’t give a fuck about India and to use India as a role model for the Philippines is not only “malabo,” it is warped and idiotic. I care about the Philippines and I use the United States as a role model for our country to progress. Have you ever been India? I am barking right mac.bh…at the root of our problems: the cycle of unpunished corruption from the haves, and the cycle of indifference of the havenots who leave once they attain the education and opportunity to join the exodus. Read my comment(s) again, trust me, you misunderstood.

Greetings aus_phil,
My comments are not stupid. It is the truth that many uninformed Filipinos deny. Here’s a link that you and others should watch that strikes my heart and makes me lament for our country:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCBXClvWlWk

Bloggers, don’t judge others unless you know them personally. We all have every right to express our opinions concerning the Philippines but try to save insults. (Simply ask for clarification without using demeaning words.) I don’t look at myself in the mirror because I already see the reality of the Philippines outside my house. I’m quite sure most bloggers here look at themselves in the mirror and say, “Damn, I’m so cool. Look at my designer clothes, shoes, cologne and car. I’m so lucky I don’t live in the Philippines.”

When was the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror and said, “Today, I will build a home, make children smile and educate the community against corruption for the future of the Philippines.”? If the answer is “recently,” then more power to you. If the answer is “never” because you have no time and you live abroad, then I dare you to change what you see in your mirror.

yan na nga ba yung sinasabi kong sa salita lang kinikilalang hero ang mga ofw masakit tanggapin pero yan ang katotohanan. sana ryebosco sa pamamagitan mo makabalik na ang lahat ng ofw sa atin at di na maging alila sa ibang bansa.

Ahhhh..speaking of the root cause of the problems being blamed on the “Katulong”.. what a great idea of yours Rye….

so it means when someone go out of the country it means “being afraid to speak up and protest what needs to change in our own country. You chose to turn your back from your responsibility here at home.” Very very good Rye…sabihin mo kaya yan kay Ninoy at Jose Rizal..lumabas din sila ng bansa diba? Ang galing galing mo Rye…

I used the story of Indian expat Rye, to show that that the government can solve the problem of exudos by creating a real economy. It seems you did not get the point. Nasaan ang galing mo Rye?

So your model is USA? Sure it is greener there, but have you ever wonder that millions of Americans are also expat? So want is the lesson here? It is always greener at the other backyard? With your way of thinking these American are stupid! Imagine nag papaalila sila sa ibang bansa gayong mas greener ang lupa nila? Ang galing galing mo Rye!

And you claim you are barking right at the root of the problem by insulting the have-nots? Ang galing galing mo talaga Rye!

No, I didn’t misunderstand you Rye, but I believe you did not write well your ideology. Sorry if it sound sarcastic I just copied your way of writing.

Ang Pinay, pagdating sa ibat-ibang tahanan sa labas ng bansa, ay tiyak aani at patuloy na umaani ng mga walang katapusang papuri at kagalakan mula sa desente at maka-taong padre de pamilya at may-bahay.

Dangan nga lamang, sa bawat isang pinalad na Pinay, tinutumbasan din ito ng isa o higit pang Pinay na hindi katulong-bahay ang kinauuwian bagkus alipin ang turing mula sa mga dayukdok at barbarong kung maka-asta ay amu-amohan at hari.

Dili ba’t ang kababaihan ang simbolo ng Inang Bayan?

Dili nga ba’t ang isang lipunan ay hinuhusgahan unang-una, batay sa kanyang abilidad at kakayahang protektahan ang kanyang mga kababaihan?

Pinoy, anong uri ng lipunan ang kinabibilangan mo?

“Filipinos can do better than being maids”.

that quote is right only that they dont have the chance to do it in our own country. isa ako sa libu-libong nagtitiis mapalayo sa pamilya. i can do better than just being a maid pero dahil nga wala ng makain, natural na unahin ko muna ang bituka ko, pero patuloy na lumalaban at tumutuligsa sa kabuktutan ng mga nasa katungkulan lalo na ngayong meron na namang bagong memo na inilabas para sa lahat ng ofw’s.
anyways…. we are the victims here…. we go abroad to meet our ends, it’s the only choice we got… we dont go abroad jsut because we want it or because we are afraid to speak up…… even we’re outside the country, the struggle continues.

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