Philippines has among the lowest Railway Line Length in SEA, but still wants to buy F-16s instead

Philippines has among the lowest Railway Line Length in South East Asia, but still wants to buy F-16 Fighter Jets instead

The "South East Asia Statistics (SEAsia Stats)" Website recently published the Length of the Railway Lines of each of the Countries in South East Asia (SEA) that has them based on their own Research taken from Data from various Sources, and as we can see the Philippines has among the LEAST Railway Line Length in the Region, despite the Fact that it has one of the largest Population Sizes in SEA.

Note that two Countries, Laos and Cambodia have more Railway Lines than the Philippines despite them having much lower Population Sizes than the Philippines at only 8 to 18 million People, compared to the 120 million in the Philippines.

The only Country that the Philippines has more Railway Lines is Singapore, which everybody knows is a pretty small Country, with a Population Size of only 6 million People in a Land Area that is only one-third that of the size of Davao City.

Singapore is, of course a very Progressive City-State and their Railway Lines are among the best in the World, which the same can't be said about the Philippines. All of the other major SEA Countries like Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia have 5 to 20 times the Railway Length compared to the Philippines.

And yet despite this, the current Administration insists on buying such expensive F-16C/D Fighting Falcon Block 70/72 Aircraft from the United States (US) instead of spending it on Infrastructure so we can at least catch up a bit more with our SEA Neighbors.

Here is the Link to the original Post of SEAsia Stats on their Facebook Page: https://web.facebook.com/seastats/posts/pfbid02EPb5SrRtnkbuvBKaZP2tNX4mgEVsfs1ketaEFeMwzvGCQECiScRGgXduh3G2EXVhl

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