All Hope For The Better If Not The Best

Thirty days from now the new PH President elect will now sit on the chair which appears to be the prize of competition.

Two weeks ago I posted about the recent Presidential election in PH in which BBM was leading among the candidates during the partial count.

The vote counting was done and indeed BBM is now the PH President which will start its first day on July 1st.

According to the news the new government is planning to increase taxes and will put tax on products sold online. One of which is the subscription for Netflix and similar stuff.

The reason was that the new government believes that this is one way for the country to pay its debts, at least to lessen the trillions of money being borrowed by the country.

However, some organizations tend to disagree. According to their spokesperson, the request to increase the minimum wage has not been granted and yet the taxes would increase.

If I may say about this increase in taxes, there is nothing wrong with that if that is one way to lift up the economy. However they should also look into the needs of the people.

I, for example, whose monthly income is at minimum would also disagree if they will increase the tax. I guess they should focus first on amending the people's wages. What about those who are commuting to work every day? Gas keeps on increasing and the drivers of public vehicles are already complaining. They wanted to increase the minimum fare. Some commuters are forced to buy a bike or motorcycle so as to avoid the expense of commuting. This way they can also avoid traffic congestion and can go to work on time. However this is kind of risky. 

The new government is promising a lot to the people just like the past administration and the outgoing one.

People are already tired of those promises which appear to remain a promise. But since the people wanted the Marcos administration back, does it mean that they have already forgiven them?

Most likely, the people wanted relief from enduring the different difficulties, particularly the financial crisis.

Some of the promising remarks by the incoming administration are the low cost price of rice and re-opening the halted nuclear power plant project.

This may be a hope to support the inevitable poverty in terms of food supply and to lessen the high electric charge in every home or establishment.

I can sense that BBM would resume the projects his father has started for good hopefully. The people seem to have forgiven them although the past has been written in history. 

For sure there are still people who might not have moved on and there will always be protests on the streets in the coming years. We never know what the future brings.

I may not know him well but of course he has his own motivation as to why he wanted to rule the country.

I have been living with six administrations in my entire life in this country and there is only one thing that hasn’t changed - poverty.

I hope that the new administration has plans to solve this or at least lessen the number of people who only eats two times a day or even nothing at all. But then since he wanted to increase the tax and or add tax to those commodities with no tax, how do you think the small people can handle this?

I just bought food in the canteen here in the office and to my surprise they have already increased some of their merchandise.

You see, the new administration has not yet started but then some stores are already increasing the price of their goods and products.

This is also one reason why the rich is getting richer and the poor become poorer. Some small businesses have the right to overprice their merchandise because there is no other option for the people to turn to.

I hope the next administration will be a better version of the outgoing administration if not the best.