YEAR-END VIEW: 2010 COULD BE A PROSPEROUS YEAR BY OUR OWN CHOICE

 

Today, a lot of people, even in the whole world, are formulating and reformulating their own New Year’s resolutions each according to the situations they are in.  A scenario or lots of scenarios are being drawn along the way or even written in their respective journals and diary; in view, good ideas come up from worst experiences.

People in all walks of life always dream prosperity, or say, convenience, good jobs, permanent homes, great income, great events, parties, and many more. They built their own outlook of prosperity as means of living life and in attaining happiness. But all is utopia!

2009 is a year of disasters; a year of pains, heartaches, and a season of trials and tribulations among the Filipino people.  There were extraordinary events and unusual choices in each of the individual while the year is about to end. What capped all of these events are the grisly massacre in Maguindanao in November and the recent capsized M/V Baleno-9 ferry off Verde Island in Batangas in December, and many spits of political killings from north to south, and of course, Mayon’s troubled silence. As these events went off in the air, people are blaming each other with pinpointing fingers to whom it may concern.

However, 2009 is also a year of good things. The peso strength against dollar, an increase in employment opportunities, a sustained foreign remittances from OFWs, the last quarter’s increase in business activities in all sectors, Filipinos received awards from their own different talents and good ideas in action, Manny Pacquiao named as the First Filipino Pound-for-Pound King in Boxing in the whole world; and most of all, election tide is sizzlingly hot!

In my view, these events happened because they are necessary to plan the year 2010.

Just recently, the National Government happily announced the approval of the 2010 National Budget days before the end of 2009. What a record! Efficiency in governance is quite impressive this time; and I would not want to compare it years passed. It is a great achievement for our Congress. I don’t care whatever is the motive behind the immediate approval of the budget. For me, it only means something much great than expected. It means that governance can be achieved when choice is put into a right track.

I wish to greet our Congress, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

When Congress is swift in their legislative actions, we can expect many good things will happen in 2010.

I’d like to cite a few good things that we can expect to happen in 2010:

1.  COMELEC can pursue its own objective to fully implement the computerization of the elections because it can immediately implement the use of funds allotted for the purpose without legislative hitches that may come around.

2. JUSTICE & LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES can perform well because the budget they need can be drawn out easily from the coffers of the government to secure, sustain and maintain National Security.

3. EXECUTIVE & LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTALITIES of the National Government has all the open options to make use of the budget to benefit the great number of their clientele.

4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS from Barangay, Municipal, and Provincial levels will certainly perform well also because the budget they need will be guaranteed by the National Government. So, whatever financial accruals they incurred in 2009 can be paid in the first quarter of 2010.

5. BANKING & BUSINESS will increase activity; financial transactions will increase; but, the bulk of it will be withdrawals.

6. PEOPLE & POLITICIANS will be very busy campaigning and employment at this time will surge.

7. SHOWBIZ & TALENTS will climb new heights.

8. MEDIA, NGOs, and POs will be vigilant.

9. FIRECRACKERS will blow at 12:00 midnight of December 31.

 

I believe all of these events will highlight the whole year of 2010. But of course, opposite things may happen. So, we can expect the worst out of many good things to happen.

Anyway, my view is that 2010 will be prosperous according to our choice. When we believe that it would be so, it can happen at anytime of the year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!