DAGUPAN CITY – Population is a great resource for wealth but the government has done nothing but to exploit the people.

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz echoed this as he pointed to the number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as the country’s primary export earner.

Cruz, a vocal critic of the Arroyo administration, said “it is sad but true as well as providential that the country has its own citizens” as its primary export commodity.

In a statement Wednesday, Cruz lamented that “the present Administration to this time has nothing to show as any real accomplishment other than making millions of Filipinos precisely leave the country to make their living abroad”.

He said the Administration has not come up with any resource to reap economic
benefits from other than receiving the multi-billion remittances from OFWs.

The supporters of the Administration practically hate the population such that they want to “control” it in number, he said.

“Yet, it is from this population that the government exacts all conceivable direct and indirect taxes. And it is also a relatively big portion of the same population working abroad that keeps the country financially afloat”.

Cruz noted that the government looks down at population basically in terms of mouths to feed.

“Population is wealth if their governance were beneficial to the citizens and not exploitative of them, honest to them and not deceptive of them,” he pointed out.

“That population is wealth stands precisely well proven by the reality of the OFWs as the country’s manpower export,” he added.

Cruz the government’s failure to serve its population is aggravated by the growing “decadence in public morality”.

“That is why there is much dissent among many sections of society, there is restiveness even in certain institutions, he said. EVA

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