As the economy gets worse, more and more peope are out on the streets

As I traverse the stretch of Santa Monica boulevard on my way to work everyday, I see more and more people pushing shopping carts on the street. Just across where I work is a Lutheran church where a homeless guy sleeps upon its steps. And a black man in dreadlocks who walks around with a guitar case in his back. I can't help but think that people back home are luckier since, on top of favorable weather, we look out for each other. We just run to the neighbor's whenever we run out of something and we need it for the interim. The Philippines maybe a poverty-stricken country but I would like to believe that we churn out more college graduates per capita than the United States does. In a time such as this I am reminded of how lucky we Filipinos are for being resilient and for having weathered out situations worse that what the United States is experiencing. Like what our elders would always say, once you hit rock bottom, there's really no other way to go than up.