Much of our hardships today are brought about our big brother.

Check this out....

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207

Sounds like another advocacy website. Suffice to say much of the hardships the Philippines is experiencing today is brought about by self-infilcted bad policies. Borrowing beyond the country's means, letting tax cheats get away with evasion, dissing foreign direct investors with inconsistent and unpredictable rules and regulations all add up to less jobs and lower income for Filipinos and less revenues for the national treasury.

If you check the roots of just what you said, you will just find out how rotten our political has become. It was easy for the US to dangle a carrot in front of our past leaders. Easy pickings. It really takes two to tango and it all began with Marcos.

The website is actually based on the book of John Perkins, a self confessed economic hitman ergo the title of his book.