Did OFWs End Up Taking Over Kuwait?

I just overheard the OFW rescue operation in Kuwait a few days ago. I remembered hearing of an OFW maid whose body was found in a freezer a few months ago. It reminded me of how I wrote a couple of posts concerning OFWS -- one was about the idea where some Filipinos think that they are taking over the world and the other is about some OFWs who think that they have immunity abroad.

Do you even know what the term OFW means? It means Overseas Filipino WORKER not Overseas Filipino WARRIOR. It's really sad how the OFW program is doing more harm to the Filipino than good -- especially if you send them to Middle Eastern countries like Kuwait or how families are torn apart no thanks to economic protectionism. OFWs aren't going around the world and conquering it. No, they are going around the world seeking for jobs because the Philippines has very restrictive job provisions such as the lousy 60/40 policy.

Also, I'd like to quote from Get Real Philippines' post concerning the Kuwait diplomatic crisis (which has many of illegal OFWs there) has also revealed this about the Filipino arrogance concerning OFWS:

Back in the old days before social media there was a particularly "viral" email going around that enjoined humanity to “imagine a world without Overseas Filipino Workers”. The author of the email went on the wax poetic about such a world where there’d be catastrophic shortages in nurses, elderly care, welders, and all sorts of other professions and services that the First World “depend on” for their prosperity. 

I found the author’s presumption of the First World’s "dependence" on OFW labour quite astounding. We are made to believe by this obscure author that Filipinos are the source of First World wealth. The facts, however, say otherwise. It is the other way around. Filipinos are pathetically dependent on First World employment. What Filipinos who swallowed the drivel of this old “viral” email hook line and sinker fail to understand is that the First World, over centuries, accumulated and created the capital that accounts for their wealth. And it is this vast capital base now baked into their national economies at work for them that employs Filipinos.

It's time to face this truth that Filipinos (or any nationality that relies on labor export) aren't the source of first world wealth. We could consider the truth behind economic prosperity towards nations that were once poorer than the Philippines such as South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Malaysia got rich not by employing OFWs but through Foreign Direct Investments. By allowing FDIs to invest in their countries -- they have offered various jobs such as by allowing their home countries to be a production outlet for products that will be sold to other countries. In turn, the government collected taxes from the FDIs as they earned which soon allowed more expenses to help in infrastructures to improve the business environment. 

The reason why OFWs were sent to the affluent countries is not because the affluent countries need them. The bitter reality is that the OFWs need those countries to provide them with jobs because their home country lacks it. They aren't there in their mission to take over those first world countries. Instead, they have become overly dependent on employment from first world countries because their country refuses to open its economy to the world.

If the Philippines just opened its economy decades ago then this kind of incident would have had much lesser chances of happening. Instead, the multiple disaster situation where you've got Filipinos who are ignorant about basic economics combined with the lies of the oligarchy and Filipino activist groups continued the same problem that has prevented job entries that Filipinos could have taken, in order to avoid having the need of the OFW program. 

Still thinking that OFWs are conquering the world? They haven't conquered even ONE COUNTRY and they never will.