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Everybody’s talking about recession in the US and possibly an economical slowdown around the world. This year’s Blog Action Day theme - Poverty - is very timely.

Traditionally, poverty is defined by a line that is set by the government. That income threshold perceived needed to sustain a family’s immediate everyday needs.

We always think of poverty as a problem of developing countries, never associated with the US or EU where opportunities abound.

But poverty hits very close to American homes. And it’s not about getting yourself in deep debt and foreclosure. It’s about people who line up at shelters every afternoon in the hopes of getting a warm cot at night, it’s about living like squatters under a bridge in Miami (oh yes, here too!), it’s about barely scraping a living although there’s supposed to be jobs aplenty for people who want to work.

Unfortunately, poverty is not just a statistical number.

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Granted it’s becoming “showbiz” (politics of personalities), the US election is not for shallow discourse of people who are not involved in day to day lives of people here (meaning, they’re like a gazillion miles away), nor is it for those who are not familiar with the issues.

I was just chatting with one friend earlier and he was like, “Oh My God Obama will win the election!, he has to, we are all rooting for him“.

I asked him why … “well, he’s going to change everything“.

Seriously? Like, REALLY?

As in had Ninoy Aquino been alive he’d have cast a magic spell and voila the Philippines would be shooting to the top of the world charts for everything?

Get real. Why do Filipinos really like Obama?

They hate McCain because of the misinformation about his stance on immigration.They like Obama beause … ummm, well … he talks nice?

Talk is cheap.

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No, it’s not Ratatouille finding his bella.

Ten years ago, if somebody asked me, where did you meet your partner and I’d say, why, on the internet … chances are, the person you’re conversing with would give you a blank stare.

These days, if you want to get a date, you just turn on your computer and start click clicking with your mouse … voila, a date for each day of the week.

But have online dating sites reached its peak? At every turn I see a commercial from eHarmony and Match.com, these two companies who used to charge a lot have gone free. Hmmnnn. Could it be because of a resurgence of social networking web sites where you can just about hook up with your friends friends, faster and cheaper?

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