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Every year economists always predict a bleak Christmas. Any parent would know that the permanent reality in the country’s economic system is not a prediction so that under these circumstances it is normal that the majority of Filipinos would scrimp and save for the luxury of celebrating the western influence and commercial Christmas season. It is then also a practical reminder for all of us to “tangkilikin and sariling atin, buy Pinoy”. Let us patronize our local products: raised, produced and made in the Philippines from local materials, especially that from your own locality. Doing this would go a long way to support our local economy, provide additional employment opportunities, and actually help the community heal from the onslaught of the effects of a nationally imposed poverty.

For the shopping needs of the Christmas season, let us encourage ourselves and our friends to support our community, join the campaign for “Buy Pinoy, Build Pinoy Month.” In the Cordillera, we already have locally fermented and distilled spirits and wines from fruits, grains, nuts and sugarcane, sweets, cakes, pancit, furnitures and decors, handicrafts, etc. Seek these locally made and produced products and share the Spirit of Christmas with a Kababayan. # nordis.net