Reaction to the published article: "About Montalvan"

The article is mainly about the proportionality between population and the economy of a certain country, in this case, the Philippines. Does the growth of the population affect the economic status of our country? I strongly believe it does. When you come to think of it, when the population increases, the supply and demand also increases. But here in the Philippines when the population and demand increases, the supply remains stagnant or even worse, decreased. The needed supplies, such as food, water, and shelter are not sufficient for the growing population.

It is presented as an argument whether or not population should be controlled by means of using contraceptives. My idea on this mater is, it should. Why? Because the supply itself (like what I mentioned earlier) is not sufficient, it is having a hard time copping up with the bloated population. Thus it should be controlled, so that the population would equal the supply, and not the other way around, because with today’s economical crisis it is very impractical.

I am not saying that population is the only reason why our economy today is very unstable, but what I am trying to imply is that the growth of a population is one of the main factors why an economy fluctuates. What are the other factors, you ask? I believe that the government and the citizens also have big impacts to our economy.

The government is responsible for control, therefore they are the ones concerned mainly with the development of our country. It is a fact that the Philippine government is known to be corrupt, due to this image, our present leaders should prove to the people that what they believe is wrong, but unfortunately nothing is happening. Another thing, our fellow Filipinos should also take responsibilities since they are citizens of this country. We shouldn’t put all the blame of what is happening in our society and in our economy to our government leaders.

To others, Population may not have any connection with a country’s economical status. But they should always put in mind: “Too much of something is not good and too little of that thing is not enough.”