Name: Joe Diaz
City/State/Country: Whittier, Ca 90604
IP Address: 96.251.65.123

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Re: Natural Disasters in RP The last natural disaster was the typhoon Ondoy floods. The government was obviously not able to handle that one right. The disaster plan was inadequate. . People who survived were lucky not because the government helped them. Too much population not enough resources reserved for natural disasters. If another o ne hit RP... the Filipinos will pray that they will survive the government not a reliable resource to help the population.

Name: pinoy4ever
City/State/Country: san jose, ca
IP Address: 71.116.105.205

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Absolutely not. Chile is a bigger and richer country, and corruption level is not as horrendous as the Philippines. The Philippines has a long time political disaster that couldn't even handle by its own Government. How can the Philippines handle the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that Chile had? i wish these political beasts will be hit first if ever an earthquake comes in the Philippines!

Name: Jesse Santos
City/State/Country: Smokey Mountain
IP Address: 70.77.32.162

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As pointed out by PNL, the Philippines is way overpopulated, to which I totally agree. On the on-going debate about the need to get a birth control program put in place to slow down our population growth, the dumb bishops of the CBCP still insist that contraceptives are immoral. They also claim that the use of condoms encourages promiscuity and weakens the moral fiber of the youth. Nothing could be farther from the truth. What these moralizing bishops didn't say is that it is poverty brought about in part by overpopulation that weakens the moral fiber of our nation. Also, the hypocrisy among some bishops and priests, who keep mistresses and engage in pedophilia, is what drives many Catholics away from the Church.

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