I wrote this a couple of weeks ago i just thought maybe i could write a letter to the president. i don't know i'm a little bit drawn aback about the idea, it's kindf silly. well that's how i am most of the time, enthusiastic at first then much drained thereafter which confuses me: if i was serious or was just venting another something. so i'm just saving this for the record. to remind me of how bored i really am in my life right now. she is so cute.
I'd like to invite you to write your letters to the President too, may it be personal or for the country or whatever they may be. 
"The biggest danger in the world today is not the asking of questions but the assumption that we have all the answers; not the invitation to change but the tendency to run from change; not dramatically new ideas but the same old ideas."
-Neale Donald Walsch
Dear Madam,
Hello Mrs. President. I am a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines. Let me introduce a little about myself, My name is Joseff. I am from Cebu and I am 19 turning 20 this year.
Mrs. President, I am aware that many presidents and members of the government have been doing and trying and searching answers to make a better Philippines. But isn’t the answer too simple? I presume you would be saying how it’s not as easy as it seems, but my dear president, it is, and you know it is. We are but only people, we get carried away sometimes, we get tired sometimes, we get fixated sometimes on things that people present to be the real problems, only to see that the real problems they acknowledge are just problems they personally have and experience, problems to be solved for their own sole benefits. And just their own, but not reflecting the masses.
Now what I want to be able to tell you about is our problem. I am indeed certain that even the blind and the deaf know this.
We all seek for one thing which entails all things: happiness and joy and peace of mind, as you I might presume to be seeking also. But because of how long the world has come to be, some of the most ridiculous ideas have pervaded the innermost thoughts of society making the most ridiculous notions innate and almost natural. It is almost impossible to change these lingering thoughts even with the help of all the religions of the world, only because people think what they think is right. I do not claim however to know what’s right and what’s wrong, for who really knows what is? But wouldn’t it be maybe effective if we start drilling outside in?
We are a third world country as they call us madam, yet some of people that we regard as elite are living very much luxuriously, yet people are suffering, from poverty and injustice, isn’t there something wrong with that scenario? Although you too are an ordinary person just like me, the difference is, you have the strongest influence in this country, you have the power to make things move. And I am calling unto you, to please, help the poor, madam. I’m not saying that you aren’t, but hasn’t it even entered your mind that maybe it hasn’t been enough?
Of the nineteen years of my very young life, I have heard and read from the television news and the newspaper, mention relatively very big amounts of money spent here and there for the development of our country. Most recently, in my native province, primarily for diplomacy reasons. I do not recall how much money was used but didn’t you think it was too much? The amounts of millions and billions may seem trivial to you in regard with the entirety of the nation, but couldn’t be millions of pesos enough to help the poor? to build housing projects to lessen the homeless, projects like that of the United States and since it is a developed country and a friend maybe it’s got some good examples. Housing projects, in the form of rising buildings, or subdivisions and such. I am not as of now aware if there is but wouldn’t it also be very much helpful if the government or an agency be formed to help the poor find jobs, or provide jobs? I believe these are the most basic and the simplest necessities of the people, don’t you think so too?
As I have said you have the strongest influence of all, madam. And I am sure that you know that you too have some influence over the elite, the upper class as we call it. What do these people have that the poor don’t? What’s the reason making billions and millions only to make more? The way I see it, we make money to survive, and somehow to have luxuries in the long run, but to make more just to make more, if you look at it, isn’t that too much? Isn’t that ridiculous already? For them maybe it is not, because it benefits them, it gives them power, somehow to have control and be granted privileges along the way, but what about the rest of your country madam? I do not know whether it is wrong to ask for help from private sectors for the benefit of the country’s fractioned economy and state, but isn’t it the simplest way? Or I am not aware if this too is out of the system, but I thought, from a child’s mind, that what if every Filipino in the country just give a peso every day, no more no less, only for the sole benefit of the poor, would that be too disorderly? Or unorthodox? If it is, wouldn’t that abandonment of convention somehow help?
I have heard from the TV that it costs P60, 000 to build one house if I am not mistaken, and with almost 90 million of the Philippines' population, and maybe just half of that, contribute, every day, every day we would more or less have 750 houses if my calculation is correct, and that is every day, imagine what we could achieve in a month, in a year? Of course this is the child in me speaking, I wouldn’t know if you would have the courage to recognize that.
We are having much fuzz about the country’s security as it was one of the ASEAN’s main topics. What about poverty, madam? I wonder how much we have spent and we will spend for these other relatively trivial aspects of our country. We spend much for the aesthetic aspects, beautification and other minor things I need to be more familiar of, but would you rather have a child go unfed for the fulfillment of these other political and diplomatic “things.” If the answer would be yes to this question, I’m sure it is much worthy of its answer.
Again, I am sure you are thinking right now of how unaware I am of the due process of everything, or again it isn’t as easy as it seems, but it is madam, you have the power, we have the power. We could stop world hunger if we choose to. Let us start here in our nation, madam. We could stop poverty and hunger if we choose to, only we have to do it, collectively, so do please call upon your subjects and wake them up. If we want the poor to be rich, we give them money, if we want the hungry to be fed then we give them fish but then teach them how to fish. Isn’t it that simple, madam?
Madam, I am only a child in the adult political society, I have no whereabouts where I am in a place of politicians and such, please do regard me as a child talking, and let’s just hope that, maybe, for once, an adult like you would listen to a child like me, and stop being fixated with numbers and figures, numbers are infinite and postulates as you are aware of, we could always enjoy them at a later time, for they will never cease to exist.
I believe that you are serving as the President of the Republic of the Philippines for the country and not for your own self or for the benefits of others. Capitalism is making the rich richer and the poor almost dead, madam. You are an economist as I have heard, maybe you could be more open and less pessimistic to the ideas of the left spectrum of politics that I also have much yet to learn. It’s only for the better madam, not for the benefit of one or the other but for all.
Sincerely and with most respect,
tambuk
Letters to the President
Originally Posted by dredd41v576
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