Maganda ang mga puntos mo cyberdoc95.

Let me add that our country is rich in natural resources. This means that we have the raw materials, the labor and technical know-how to be an industrialized nation.

But government ineptitude and graft/corruption will bring us nowhere. Graft/corruption is insidious: it retards economic progress and at the same time is destroying the moral fiber of our society.

I was once a patient in a Japanese hospital and had a discussion with an elderly nurse. She trained in Europe (several decades ago) and met some Filipina nurses. She admired and respected these Filipina nurses. But now, the Filipinas in the news are entertainers (especially in Japan) and domestic helpers. She asked me why our country has lagged in economic development and is like a poor country when there seems to be no reason for this condition. She wished that our government and our countrymen as a whole would do something about the sad economic state.