Why government neglects investors

Batas Mauricio

WE Filipinos should not really be surprised anymore that our present and past governments have not been doing anything to help our countrymen who have invented machines, gadgets, and other instruments that could have allowed all of us to live better lives, economically and socially, just like the “salt-water lamp” invention by a Filipina engineer.

The reason is clear: many officials in government are, in reality, protecting the interest of big businesses whose profitability will surely go down if our bright countrymen who have been given the gift and the intelligence to invent many useful things are allowed to mass produce their inventions.

This is the reason why Filipino inventions like cars running on water, or even on hydrogen, were completely ignored in this country. Imagine, if cars would already be using water or hydrogen to run, many businessmen dealing with gasoline and other petroleum products would be out of business, is it not?

I remember a fellow Rotarian president who managed to invent an attaché-case-like electric generator which can produce electricity by itself, without the usual power plants, hydro-plants, windmills, or even solar panels. Instead of being honored, he was hunted down like a wild animal, and prevented from introducing his generator to the public.

The same guy invented a machine which converts water into hydrogen, so that it can be used to power any vehicle that is running on gasoline now. Again, instead of getting accolades for his invention, he was repeatedly warned not to continue perfecting the machine, or else..

The tragedy in all these is that these inventions somehow managed to find their way into the hands of either foreign governments or foreign businessmen, who further refine or improve on them, and then profit handsomely from them. I really cannot imagine how sick our officials have become.

Even with the “saltwater lamp” invention, it is a clear condemnation once more of the incompetence or the pure and simple but totally criminal neglect, and the skewered and corrupt priorities, of government insofar as its electrification program is concerned.

If only the Aquino government put to good use the billions of pesos it had been allotting on a yearly basis for supposed electrification projects in the country, and thereby fulfilled President Aquino’s election promise of providing electric power to the entire country by the end of his term, there would have been no need for a “saltwater lamp,” and it would not have been invented at all.

But then again, I guess all Filipinos know that this government will not be pursuing an honest-to-goodness electrification program or in the other far-flung areas of the country for that would mean derailing the businesses of the billionaires who contributed to Aquino’s campaign funds in 2010, 2013, and now, in 2016.

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I consider funny and hilarious, but at the same time totally sad and pathetic, all Facebook posts saying there is a need for Filipinos to pray so that their leaders would turn righteous and upright.

The fact is, it is clear many Filipinos do not understand what it takes for a prayer to be answered, and why Filipino politicians and officials in top government positions turn out to be corrupt and plunderous.

This is sad and totally pathetic, considering that we have been priding ourselves, for as long as I can remember now, that the Philippines is the only Christian nation in the Far East whose citizens believe in God. If we are so deep with Christianity, how come the promises of the Bible about power, wealth, victory and success, have clearly escaped or avoided us?

The truth hurts, really, but it is still the truth. Ask any ordinary believer on the streets of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao: what is the prayer that God answers favorably? Almost always, perhaps 99.99% of the time, no one, though they profess to be Christians, can answer that.

Almost always, perhaps 99.99% of the time again, no Filipino Christian will remember the ringing words of Jesus in Matthew 7:21: “Not all who call on me, `Lord’, `Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven…” Not one will remember that not all who says “My God”, “My God” will be listened to by God.

Why is this happening? The Bible itself answers this, in Hosea 4:6 which says, quite emphatically: “… my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” Indeed, when people who believe in God do not know what Jesus said in Matthew 7:21, and do not know as well what Jesus said was the condition so those who call on Him, “My God”, “My God”, would have their prayers favorably answered, then destruction awaits them.

This is the reason why we at the Anak ng Diyos Kadugo Ni Kristo or Children of God Blood Kin of the Christ Church, a Christian church established in the Philippines by God to do His work during the end times, endeavor to acquire knowledge that is found in the Word of God, the Bible, through furious Bible studies and prayer meetings among our members.

We believe that the Bible contains the very “breath” of God, the verses written therein having been inspired by God to be written, not only to serve as unreachable commands, but as practical instruments to acquire power to prevail in our daily lives here on earth, and to assure ourselves of salvation in Paradise in eternal life.

The Bible alone contains promises about best health, lengthy life, victorious endeavors, and upright and righteous conduct. When we read the Bible, we in reality are conversing with God, because the Bible itself assures us that the Word is God Himself. Let us therefore read and study the Bible, and then carefully obey its every command, so that when we pray God will favorably listen to us.

E-mail: batasmauricio@yahoo.com