Apr 25 2008
58 years old guy, died while falling in line
A 58 years old guy died while falling in line to purchase rice. The 58 years old guy was from Cagayan de Oro City when he died because of heat stroke. He was falling in line for 4 hours because the citizens here in the Philippines are in panic due to shortage of rice. I got this news from Bandila. A late night news coverage of ABS-CBN. Imagine that. 58 years old and was falling in line just to purchase rice.
It’s a huge back stab for the government since they are importing rice just to cope up with the demand and to supply the country with enough rice but.. But, the government didn’t knew that importing rice would put the poor farmers in great disadvantage. Why is this? Imagine that the Philippines has a large land area and the government didn’t act to give the land for the land reform. Many farmers would benefit the said land reform because they could use it for planting rice or planting vegetables and the government didn’t do anything about it. i hope they could do something. If they could give those farmers a chance, it would lessen the crisis here in the Philippines.
Remember: Heed this, there is no shortage of rice in the Philippines. It is the price that causes the panic. And the media exaggerated that there is a shortage of rice which in fact, there is none.
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