OFWs Call for Remittance Boycott on Nov. 1 & 2

[jeffrocks]

he he he by doing so, para na nilang pinatay ang sarili nila (kung sino man yong nakaupo sa malakanyang).anyways, nalalayo na tayo, mahirap yang plano na boycott sa remittance.dipa ganon ka organize ang mga ofw.

Ako'y naniniwala na hindi uusad ang boycott na yan, marami ng samahan o organisasyon ang mga OFW's lalo na sa gitnang silangan ngayon at ito'y [OFW's wants a dollar to P50 petition] nakarating na kay vice president at sa central bank governor last July and they said its ridiculous kaya nga boycott na ang pananawagan ngayon,...pero taka tol, tuwang- tuwa ka doon sa kabilang same thread at sabi mo " bakit 2 days lang dapat hanggang december ang boycott"...well, i respect your opinion... pls don't get mad at me

[Ventoy]

Tama naman 2ng Boycott kaso baka meron pang mas maganda nyan , totoo naman talaga ni isang pinoy walang pakinabang sa lumalakas na peso kasi magkano presyo Gasolina lagpas P42+ na . Pakilagay ko nakinabang yung dambuhalang importer na mga kaalyado ng Malacanyang tapos d2 pa sa atin binibenta kaya parang ginigisa tayo sa sariling matika

[b1rken5tock]

OFWs can do what ever they want to do with their money/earnings because they earned it (pasensya na at kulang sa bokabularyo kaya medyo redundant yung sentence...)

if they want to boycott remittance, fine, let them do it, I suggest doing it for the months of Nov and Dec, wag lang Nov 1 and 2... I reckon around 4-5 Billion USDollar of missed remittance will have an effect on our economy. maybe we should start thinking of ways to cut our dollar dependence on OFW remittances.

at siempre dapat din abisuhan ng mga OFWs ang kanilang mga pinapadalhan ng pera na magtiis muna ng 2 buwan...

[CVT]

OFWs can do what ever they want to do with their money/earnings because they earned it (pasensya na at kulang sa bokabularyo kaya medyo redundant yung sentence...)

if they want to boycott remittance, fine, let them do it, I suggest doing it for the months of Nov and Dec, wag lang Nov 1 and 2... I reckon around 4-5 Billion USDollar of missed remittance will have an effect on our economy. maybe we should start thinking of ways to cut our dollar dependence on OFW remittances.

at siempre dapat din abisuhan ng mga OFWs ang kanilang mga pinapadalhan ng pera na magtiis muna ng 2 buwan...

Ito ang tamang pagtuunan ng pansin ng ating mga namumuno.... Hindi iyong nakahilata lang sila dahil malaki ang remittance ng mga OFWs at sinasabi nilang "the economy is indeed very healthy" dahil sa bilyong dolyar na dumarating sa ating bansa from our modern heroes....

E mali namang economics ito, di ba? Dahil nagkakahiwalay ang mga magpapamilya.... Napupuwersa lang ang mga OFWs na umalis ng bansa dahil nawawala ang trabaho rito sa Pilipinas. Kung maganda ba ang mga oportunidad dito sa ating bayan,- aalis pa ba ang mga OFWs natin?

E di ba Economics graduate ang namumuno sa atin. Dapat ay dilat na dilat ang kanilang mga mata sa mga bagay na ito!

Sa huli,- masarap mag-abroad. Alam ko ito dahil dati akong OFW. Pero, talagang malungkot dahil malayo ka sa mga mahal mo sa buhay. Sigurado akong kung ang kabuhayan natin dito sa ating bansa ay maalwa at ang oportunidad ay marami para sa ating mga anak,- hindi na aalis ang ating mga kababayan para makipagsapalaran sa ibang bansa.

Mga namumuno sa bayan,- gawin ninyo naman ng tama ang inyong trabaho dahil pera ng bayan ang inyong suweldo!

Huwag naman sanang mag-boycott. Bansa rin natin ang tatamaan ng ganitong mga aksyon.

4202:banned:

[empy]

galing talaga :clap:

is this movement related in any way with that petition we saw recently about the government subsidizing a "special exchange rate" for OFW's? :bwahaha:

i guess a 2-day remittance boycott will overturn the basic laws of supply and demand, or change the minds of tens of millions of investors, governments and institutional investors around the world whose actions (and bid/ask spreads) set the x-rates of any non-pegged currency :bwahaha:

also, papayag ba ang mga OFW na magutom ang mga pamilya nila sa pasko? maybe all those observing the boycott will all remit on the 3rd, eh di ganun din :rofl01:

hopefully this boycott is purely symbolic, because from a practical perspective, it is useless. sobra na yata ang conspiracy theory laban kay GMA...pati exchange rates akala nila siya din ang may pakana :evillaugh

[wildthing]

Merun akong option...

1) convert their US dollars to Euros (kasi mas mastable yun)...even sa pinas mas mataas ang exchange rate the euros (I think). Everyone knows that it is the dollar that is sinking slowly... and euros is stable and sometimes going up pa nga ang value.

2) Or give their families debit or credit cards to use instead (with varying limits of deposits or credits). Yung mga debit or credit cards na ito (since sa abroad ninyo kinuha) is replenished in the country that the OFW is working...

this way, no dollars or money will actually or physically reach the philippine shores... you pay for your relatives' bill in the country you are working (pede mo pang mareview kung saan nila ginagastos ang pera mo). Hindi rin basta-basta ito maicoconvert to cash to give-away to unwanted mangungutang. If they do need cash, pede namang mag-cash withdrawal sa mga debit and credit cards.

pag walang pumasok na dolyar sa pinas it will probably affect our dollar reserves and thus trigger the increase in the peso-dollar exchange rate. The high dollar reserves of the philippines is also one of the factors kasi affecting the exchange rate.

hope this would make our OFWs happy.

i don't know the possible side effect of this second option in our economy though.

[the_wildthing]

2) Or give their families debit or credit cards to use instead (with varying limits of deposits or credits). Yung mga debit or credit cards na ito (since sa abroad ninyo kinuha) is replenished in the country that the OFW is working...

At 1 to 4 dollars per transaction medyo cost prohibitive, malamang withdrawhin lang niya ng one time para one time charge din. And since the withdrawals are be made in local currency, there is also a hit on the exchange rate used.

[theveed]

Classic case of uneducated propaganda with no "big picture" vision...

[wildthing]

can't really blame anybody on that, that is how vague our economy is.... relying on dollar and not on infrastructure/manufacturing.... kaya pagdumami dollar, its value goes down (ofw affected immediately).

[mazdamazda]

Classic case of uneducated propaganda with no "big picture" vision...

+1 on this.

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Ok talaga ito... sana nag "boycott" din sila nung bumagsak ang value ng peso to almost P60:$1 a few years ago.

:hysterical: