Ready for TNTs to be deported by Trump?
This PDu30 administration assured the other day that this country is ready to give livelihood or jobs to Filipinos who might be deported by Trump when he assumes the US presidency next January. There are about three million Filipino potential deportees who are still tago ng tago in search of the American dream. That is if the American law enforcers can catch them. Many of them are Cordillerans who didn’t see much hope in our Cordillera mountains, so they threw away to the wind any caution and took the risk of trying their luck in various parts of the USA. A lot of them surely fulfilled their dreams. Coming home would not be an option.
And what jobs was this administration talking about? Well, if you mean lowly paid jobs, there might be enough around. In fulfilment of a dream? Absolutely not. It might just be to keep body and soul together. But nothing more.
If the much touted big infrastructure projects recently approved by PDu30 is a major measure to provide enough jobs, sorry, it might only make a minuscule dent on the throng of job hunters whose mind boggling number are keeping laborer salaries at dirt levels.
The only way to provide jobs to everyone is to give incentives for more Micro Small and Medium Enterprises to be put up. As can be shown by so many studies, it is these MSMEs that is the backbone of the Philippine economy, providing about 80% of all jobs.
So why does not the government go all out in supporting existing ones and in encouraging the putting up of a lot more by giving all the necessary support like providing capital and all needed technical support? Use all that bigabucks intended for infrastructure to support MSMEs and we might end up becoming a nation of entrepreneurs instead of ordinary employees with wide gaping mouths longing for the supposed benefits of trickle down economics, which is what attracting foreign investors is all about.**
