First it should be noted that in times like this it helps if States have more money pumped out into their economies. If State has a total income of Php 50 Trillions for the year, for example, it has only that amount to spend whatever – wherever. Gain in one place is loss in another place, so there is nothing real to everything.

Government Economic Stimulus would be real if State exerts efforts to gain fund OTHER than that Php 50 Trillions to add to its expenditure, thus pumping MORE money into the local economy. And there is only two ways to do this in the Philippines: More money by tax collections, and or secure more borrowing.

And, indeed, if they are spent on palliatives, then they are meant as politics, to impress people but that could actually deepen the quagmire that the nation is in, than bailing the nation out in the end – digging own graves – deeper.

Putting our money where it counts? Government should have done that since three decades ago.

National Economic Stimulus: Philippine labor is getting 1/10th of its counterparts in advanced countries. If it is doubled, that makes it only 1/5th. But think of 100% boost in consumerism that will be cascaded by the working sector.

When cure tastes like death I think the disease is too deep.