Philippine Representative: Mr. Lamy, after our peasants were forced into bankruptcy, only a few became farmers. The majority gushed into the cities. But there is no work in the cities-- even Hong Kong has 700,000 highly educated Philippine women working as housekeepers. 

Lamy: This isn't good?  

Hong Kong Philippine Housekeeper Representative: We want to go home! This is not a life we need! 

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Do we plan to rely on public funds to help the hundreds of millions of displaced rural laborers? Do we really want to become a second Philippines?