More Jobless Pinoys? Let them eat condom and yellow gloves!
A year after Aquino, there are more jobless Pinoys – a 3.7% increase in unemployment.
For all the talk of matuwid na daan, CCT, fuel subsidies, economy poised for take off – and all that jazz, here are the facts:
Jobless Pinoys now 11.3 M
By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star) Updated May 24, 2011 12:00 AMMANILA, Philippines – The number of unemployed Filipinos rose by 1.4 million to 11.3 million in March from 9.9 million in November last year, according to the latest survey by polling firm Social Weather Stations (SWS).
This is a 3.7 percentage point increase to the unemployment rate of 27.2 percent in March from 23.5 percent in the previous quarter. On a year-on-year comparison, the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point in March from 27.1 percent in March 2010. SWS conducted face-to-face interviews on 1,200 representative adults aged 18 years old and above from March 4 to 7.
The latest National Statistics Office’s Labor Force Survey showed that the country’s unemployment rate rose to 7.4 percent (2.9 million) in January from 7.3 percent (2.8 million) in the same period last year.
SWS said unemployment has been high since May 2005. It fell below 20 percent only three times—the last time was in September 2010 when the rate was 18.9 percent.
So while the Philippines’ ASEAN neighbors are handing out business registration papers to 100% foreign owned businesses – the Filipinos are demanding FREE CONDOMS.
If I may add – throw in yellow gloves – and let the Filipinos eat condoms and gloves – that’s the only job Pinoys are good at.
ProRH bill supporters are quick to point out the success of the Thai Family Planning Program – citing the creative techniques to attract interest in the program.
A review of the notes by The assistant of Thailand’s Mister Condom – a central figure in this campaign points out:
While creative publicity techniques drew public attention to family planning issues, many attribute the Thai people’s commitment to participate to the fusion of economic development with family planning education. PDA offers loans that are linked to people’s use of contraception. American Sara Newhall, who works with Mechai at PDA in Bangkok, described in a recent interview with IN CONTEXT how Mechai arrived at his economic program of family planning incentives:
“Mechai was an economist, coming at it from a resource management angle. He’s not a doctor or a social worker. PDA’s message is that family planning is not enough; it does not put food on the table. So if you’re going to convince an agrarian society to change its attitude from ‘we need more field hands’ to one of family planning, you have to introduce alternatives for income generation.
But this is too much information to handle by the RH Bill proponents, supporters, hilominati and flip-tards – after all they are … Da Pinoy wankers. 
My relatives in Cabuyao, Laguna were all farmers. When I was growing up, I had an uncle who had 9 children and all of them helped in the farm. All of my cousins eventually grew up and went through public school. By the time they graduated, several factories opened up in Cabuyao and they all got jobs there. My cousins (six males, 3 females) eventually all got married and had children. Guess what? Each of my cousins had 2 to 3 children.
In one generation, the number of children born to that family decreased by 66 percent because of 2 things — education and a shift from agriculture to manufacturing.
Now, a number of my cousin’s children are on the family way. My oldest nephew graduated college a few years back and is now with a call center. He has one child and says that he doesn’t want to make another kid.
Bring in development (economic growth, jobs and business opportunities) and the population, almost reflexively, goes down.
Interesting read , I am going to spend more time learning about this subject