As we were saying: Let’s buy Spain.
Attention: Director of Museo del Pradao. Send this painting to our house immediately.
A couple of weeks ago I heard two random pieces of information that stuck in my head.
The first was that Spain, like Greece and some other European nations, is in the grip of a recession and its unemployment rate is a shocking 25 percent.
The second was that the Philippines is now a creditor nation. We’ve lent a billion dollars to the International Monetary Fund. The international media has noted that while many economies are struggling, ours is doing pretty well. Pundits say the Philippines is one of the breakout economies of the next decade, and “Asia’s perennial underachiever is outperforming.”
Then it occurred to me that these two random bits may be connected. They need money, we have money, their real estate prices are plummeting…
Let’s buy Spain.
1. We can afford it.
1.1. Thanks to our Army of World Domination—the overseas Filipino workers who send money home every month—we’ve got funds.
1.1.1. They laughed at us because we were willing to take the jobs they didn’t want to do in their own countries. Some of them even used “Filipina” as a synonym for maid/domestic helper.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
July 30th, 2012 at 16:12
Lovely idea! Let’s get Rafa to visit us immediately =) BTW, some crazy comments over at the InterAksyon website.
July 30th, 2012 at 17:15
The people who commented on the article, thinking it was a literal suggestion as opposed to it being humor, astound me. I wish some people had more brains (and, in a few cases, a working sense of grammar).
In any case, if we had extra money after buying Spain, I wouldn’t mind purchasing Greece on the side…
July 30th, 2012 at 19:40
Hahahahaha! That’s the fun part.
Pobrecitos.
July 30th, 2012 at 22:17
Some Filipinos over interaksyon website are just so diehard fans of Spain being a powerful nation:) Why so serious?
Anyway, i cant wait Rafa and Iker Casillas having their variety shows here in the Philippines where they can dance, sing and give away their money. They can run for Congress too.
July 30th, 2012 at 22:35
As a bonus, Rafa would be so busy with his showbiz career, Roger Federer could win a few more grand slams!
July 30th, 2012 at 23:57
my favorite part was getting EU citizenship! brilliant idea!
what would you do with their king and queen? =)
July 31st, 2012 at 00:26
Photo ops for everybody!
July 31st, 2012 at 10:38
Wasn’t Reina Sofia in Manila recently? Perhaps she was just trying to acclimatize herself to her soon-to-be home.
July 31st, 2012 at 10:47
The King and Queen can thus be stationed in Enchanted Kingdom every couple of days.
July 31st, 2012 at 17:26
Tacky Royal Souvenirs can make up a significant part of the GNP. Plus, possible royal scandals can fill gossip mags! Circulation increases!
With the purchase of Spain, we can once again reintroduce Spanish as an official language and have actual Spanish people teaching.
July 31st, 2012 at 23:55
i prefer picasso’s version of las meninas over velasquez’.
i imagine the spain fanatics to be the filipinos working there, or the ones who have relatives working there right now. it would just be so weird for the filipinos working in spain if spain will be working for the filipinos. :D
August 1st, 2012 at 17:37
Jessica, the caption should say “Museo del Prado” not “Museo del Prada.” Ha ha ha.