in reply to your comment djnavarro, here's a copy of my post from a recent thread...

i am not criticizing. i am just presenting facts & evidence that we all need to understand & not ignore. i know it hurts but that's the reason why our brain is placed above our hearts!

a lot of you don't know that i have spent several years in philippines on volunteer (US-AID) work trying to uplift the lives of fellow filipinos in far flung provinces where your government do not bother to reach. we've had countless of education, food, micro-finance & health programs that actually worked. so don't lecture me about criticizing filipinos for, as an individual, i've done a lot for the philippines than everybody in this forum combined could ever dreamed of doing.

what i just so hate is how, these so called "proud to be pinoys" are raping their own country. whoelse destroyed their rivers? forests? & cities that is so full of every conceivable dirt on earth. whoelse so patronized imported goods that we turned out to be importers than producers like say, rice? & most of all, whoelse have elected their so called leaders which they ironcally blame for their woes? is expressing my disappointment criticism? my suggestion is, you go back to school & learn more about socio-economics other than your mindless tv shows!

so tell me djnavarro, have you done anything for your country yet? i bet my lifesavings you are nothing but one of the rapist! i hate hipocrites who do nothing but show off their nokias & imported shirts & shoes & have the nerve to pretend to be patriotic??? how many of you filipinos out there actually own filipino shoes?