THE PEOPLE | And this is democracy?

BY J.D. VELEZ

The Filipino elite have pulled a fast one on the Filipino majority the past one hundred years. And they still do up to now.

I know some sectors and development workers who are working to end this by capacitating communities so people can chart their own furure and decide what is best for them.

But until then, the masses have to leave the country and work abroad so their lives would be better. The elite have no plans of improving their plight. They corner key government contracts, get themselves elected to government positions after agreeing with each other how positions are to be distributed among themselves. They enrich themselves in office and act as patron who dispense favors to gain loyalties and persecute those who oppose them.