LAWAGUEY, FAITH B.

BSSW 2-1B
SW 2: REACTION PAPER

FEUDAL WORK SYSTEMS and POVERTY:

THE PHILIPPINE EXPERIENCE

Mr. Bonifacio S. Macaranas has illustrated poverty being the big

problems among the Filipino people who are suffering from hunger and not
being able to eat a proper meal in a day in their lives. And from his article
“Feudalism System and Poverty: The Philippine Experience”, Philippines is
listed in some of the poorest countries in Asia, which is considered a
hindrance of the Philippines to grow as a country. And from this article the
author listed the different culprit’s in the prevailing down fall living of the
Filipino people caused by one of the remains of the different countries whom
colonized Philippines in the past. In addition, Feudalism is the one of the
author that describing to its topic which is big factor or cause in the
continuing poverty of the Philippines because of its feudalistic ruling in its
government. And considered the topics such as industrial relations, feudal
works relations, historical roots of feudalism, the American regime, and The
Feudalism under the Philippine Presidents.
I am very well amazed to the author for presenting a very vague detail
about the difficulties of the Filipino people because of the continues no
change of down fall living cause of poverty in the Philippines. And I’m able
to read and learn the reasons why poverty is a problem in the Philippines,
for the reason that feudalism had played a big factor in controlling the
governing of the Philippines which made an unbalanced and wrongful ruling
to the Filipino people, that has continued to give higher people to control the
demands giving the mostly little things to the poor people. The fact that
they can take all and take advantage of the poor, needless to say that they
can give the equal amount or help the poor to cancel out the presence of
poverty in the country. Countless problems arise because of poverty making
Philippines listed some of the poorest countries in Asia and even in the
world. According to The Asian Development Bank (ADB) governance and
institutional constraints remain in the poverty response, there is weak local
government capacity for implementing poverty reduction programs, which
we can see from here that in the government there is no strategy or lacking
of coordination in countering poverty in the Philippines.
Nevertheless, aristocrat and big land ownership enjoys their power and
controlling the overall resources giving limited opportunities to the majority
of people which has overly cause them to live a standard style of living. I
agree to the author that Filipinos must continue the struggle for social
justice, industrial democracy, industrial productivity, industrial peace and
industrial growth in workplace all over the country. We must cancel or forget
our colonial history and the colonial mentality that we learned and the
feudalistic way of governing that give the down ward living of the Filipino
giving the elites to control and empower their selves and forgets the lower
majority of poorer Filipino people, that’s why we must change and continue
the struggle for social justice for the beloved country of the Philippines to
stand up and cancel out poverty in the country.