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I don't know about any of your interests, but i literally grew up on coffee, tea and even burnt rice when there wasn't a store to buy coffee from in the buquids and the coastal place where i grew up. I tried decaf, then yoga tasked me to shift to skim milk, vegetarian diet made me drink sentient carrot and fruit juice, then i discovered all those herbal whatnots and contemplated wearing pampers instead of under garments. Its coffee time once more and life seems so much better. Don't blame me if your life is so miserable, you probably haven't tried putting coffee in a dextrose straight into your veins! Would it be better than drugs? Tell me this drug is just like any other.
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Jesus’ namesake and Ms. Winnie
I was told by a friend that the namesake of Jesus Christ, Atty. Christian S. Monsod who is said to be presently lawyering for the poor and hapless farmers of Hacienda Luisita, aside from being a “free elections” crusader is now an environmental activist as well under the Save Palawan Movement. Hmmm...
Christ’s namesake was the Chairman of the Commission on Election from June 6, 1991 to February 15, 1995. Jesus Christ’s tocayo is the partner in life of Ms. Solita C. Monsod affectionately known as Mareng Winnie, who in turn used to be the partner in crime of former Gov. and Office of the President Executive Secretary Oscar Orbos. Both are now famous broadcast personas and Ms. Winnie is also a columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The Lord’s tocayo formerly headed the Genbancor. The company incurred debts in the hundreds of millions from both government and private banks but never paid its loans. Never. Up to now, those debts have not been settled and were just probably written off as bad debts? Tocayo clearly had managed its investment and financing operations badly that it drowned in the quagmire of its own making. The problem was that he squandered not his own money but other people's money and in the case of government financial institutions that he milked, the money belonged to the people. To you and me.
Later, tocayo took over a company called Permaline that was engaged in the container van business. Permaline, like Genbancor also sunk deeply in debts.
As a result, somewhere along the line, the break with connections to the regime of Pres. Ferdinand Marcos had to happen. (Among others, Genbancor was invested in oil drilling where former businessman turned politician Jose De Venecia was very active in. De Venecia was connected to the Marcoses.) When Genbancor died, the group of Allied Bank took over its building in Ayala Ave. The dynamics of the transfer from Genbancor to Allied appears to be unpleasant and many claim that there is seething hatred on the part of Genbancor towards Allied Bank.
Tocayo was so fortunate to land in the National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) that advocated clean, honest Philippine elections and later became the founder-convenor of a group called One Voice that continued the call for improved electoral mechanisms in the country. Because of NAMFREL, tocayo became the late Pres. Cory Aquino's Comelec Chairman at the near end of her term. Everybody knows how like the other Comelec Chairmen, tocayo also was a bad boy during elections. He cheated.
Recently, the column of wife of tocayo with the title Get Real in Inquirer, was carried and quoted by many media outlets for her attack on one of Allied Group’s businesses -- the Philippine Air Lines – PAL. Allied as we know is the very enemy of Genbancor – tocayo’s dead company. Ms. Winnie or Mareng Winnie most emphatically took hits at PAL in her column and called the recent acts of PAL in relation to its labor union – the PALEA – as farce.
Ms. Winnie loves the word, farce. She uses the same term in another controversial column article that castigated a former governor of Palawan, Joel Reyes over his supposed role in the killing of mediaman Gerry Ortega. (This column article must be the doing of husband-and-wife team since tocayo is now a green activist and waving the banner of Save Palawan Movement! The same movement is being spearheaded by Edward Hagedorn, the former friend and now mortal enemy of Joel Reyes.)
And surely, the recent dig at the PAL of the Allied Group, must also be a husband-and-wife teamwork since tocayo wants the Allied Group to go to Hell and join the luckless Taning in his domain down under.
Now, the international and labor economics lecture of Ms. Winnie that denigrates PAL could have been credible were it not for her and hubbie’s former connections.
If tocayo never headed the company Genbancor that was zombified due to bad handling, and if Ms. Winnie’s media assets such as her column in the Inquirer and her shows on television are insulated from propaganda against the enemies of the couple tocayo and Ms.Winnie, it is possible that the terrific insults of Ms. Winnie however painful, could be swallowed.
The problem is that tocayo and company, are fighting their wars through the media space of Ms. Winnie. Certainly, Ms. Winnie will always be on the side of her hubbie tocayo, whatever other people say behind her back about her extra-curriculars.
Shown below are the two column items of Ms. Winnie that use the term farce with much love and oomph! Happy reading!!!
Get Real
Stop the Farce
By: Solita Collas-Monsod
Philippine Daily Inquirer
11:01 pm | Friday, November 4th, 2011
Philippine Airlines is crying harassment by its employees and their union (Palea) and asking for support from business groups like the Makati Business Club. Sort of like a "we're all in this together and if it can happen to us it can happen to you" structural message.
Unbelievable. In the past decade the public has been witness to how badly PAL has treated its pilots (terminating, then rehiring them at entry-level wages, asking for legislation to prevent pilots from working for foreign airlines) and its flight attendants (firing, then rehiring at entry-level wages, onerous working and retirement conditions, long-drawn-out, never-ending CBA negotiations). And now, it wants to give its ground crew the same fire-and-rehire-at-entry-level wages treatment, slightly modified. Chutzpah.
From where I sit, PAL is not the victim of labour unions (leftist/Red-leaning, is the sub-message) but the exploiter of labour. It has been doing it for a long time, but this is beyond the pale. It should not be allowed to get away with it. Only consider:
First, the background: In 1998, PAL was in financial trouble as a result of a pilot strike, and as part of its rehabilitation plan, downsized its labour force-but almost immediately rehired most of them at entry-level salaries (i.e., loss of seniority-the start of a pattern). The Palea went on strike to protest the downsizing, and then President Joseph Estrada, a great friend of PAL owner Lucio Tan, created an interagency task force to broker an agreement between PAL and Palea.
The agreement included Palea consenting to a 10-year suspension of the PAL-Palea Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), in an effort to assure creditors and potential investors of industrial peace. In effect, Palea not only agreed that in the next 10 years, any wage increases would be decided solely by management, but that there would also be a 10-year moratorium on strikes. Does that sound like PAL was a victim and Palea the predator?
After the 10-year period, during which the employees were given yearly wage increases that were less than what they had been receiving with previous CBAs, PAL announced to Palea (August 2009) that it intended to spin off/outsource the airport services department (every activity of PAL performed in the airport) as well as the catering department. Does that sound like PAL was a victim and Palea the aggressor?
Just like that. Having gone without bargaining for 10 years, in order to help PAL turn its finances around, that is how Palea's patience gets rewarded. And up to this time, PAL has refused to sit down with Palea for CBA negotiations. Which means, as a result, that for the past three years, the PAL employees have not received any salary increase. Does that sound like PAL is a victim and Palea the aggressor?
Now let us focus on outsourcing. While it is different from off-shoring (sending your laundry to the cleaners is outsourcing), most outsourcing is also off-shoring or offshore outsourcing, and our BPOs are examples. And the basic reason is to cut costs (e.g., in the BPO situation, Philippine or Indian labour being cheaper than American or European labour), and/or, as it is so delicately phrased, "to allow a company to concentrate on its core competencies."
That sounds good, doesn't it? Who can possibly be against such objectives? Which is why our labour department and the Office of the President so sanctimoniously talk about "management prerogative" being a valid reason for retrenchment.
But hold on a moment. A closer examination of how this cost-savings will take place shows how PAL's version has made a farce, a travesty of this principle.
Consider: who is PAL going to contract these services out to? Well, from reports, it wants to contract the airport services (passenger, baggage, cargo, handling, equipment maintenance) to a company called Sky Logistics, and thus will no longer need the services of about 2,000 current employees. It intends to contract its in-flight catering activities to a company called Sky Kitchen, thus no longer requiring the services of 400 current PAL employees. And finally, the reservations and bookings will be contracted out to a call center called SPI Global, thus making another 300 of its current employees redundant.
The problem, dear reader, is that with the exception of SPI Global (which is PLDT's BPO arm, and which probably started the rumor that Manny Pangilinan was about to buy PAL), the other two companies have absolutely no experience in the services they are supposed to provide, and were in fact reportedly incorporated only in 2009 (when PAL announced it was outsourcing). It seems that their only claim to airline services activities is that they are both named Sky.
Sky Logistics and Sky Kitchen are reportedly owned by a Chinese-Filipino named Manny Osme?a from Cebu-no relationship at all with the Cebu Osme?as. I promise to look up their financials and their other owners, if any.
So, if these two corporations are new and untested, why did PAL choose them? One will not speculate. But what PAL intended to do (in the guise of doing its employees a favor) is to have these firms hire the 2,400 employees it wants to retrench-but at entry-level salaries. Again. The nth time PAL uses this technique, that's where the cost savings will come from.
In other words, PAL's outsourcing consists of firing its employees, and then hiring them at entry-level wages through what looks like a couple of dummy corporations.
Stop the farce. Stop the exploitation.
Get Real
A farcical probe
By: Solita Collas-Monsod
Philippine Daily Inquirer
9:41 pm | Friday, August 26th, 2011
Remember Gerry Ortega? He was the broadcaster, environmentalist, and corruption whistleblower, not to mention veterinarian (the source of his bread and butter so he could engage in his advocacies), who was killed in broad daylight in Puerto Princesa, shot at the back of his head while he was buying clothes from an ukay-ukay store (which shows that he was not an envelopmental journalist).
In case the reader has forgotten, some reminders: By a stroke of luck, Ortega’s assassin, Marlon Recamata, was apprehended minutes after the slaying, and readily confessed to the crime. He named his accomplices: Dennis Aranas (the lookout), Armando Noel (who recruited the killer and the lookout), and Rodolfo “Bumar” Edrad Jr., a former Marine and the acknowledged team leader. The lookout was captured, the other two surrendered, almost immediately.
They all admitted participation. Edrad, in his confession, pointed to former Palawan Gov. Joel T. Reyes as the mastermind, and as co-conspirators former Marinduque Gov. Antonio Carrion and Coron Mayor Marjo Reyes (Joel’s brother).
Further investigation implicated: lawyer Romeo Seratubias, Joel Reyes’ legal officer and provincial administrator, who owned the gun used to kill Ortega; Percival Lesias, a photographer in the office of Vice Gov. Fems Reyes (Joel’s wife) who bought the gun from Seratubias; Arturo Regalado, a close-in security of Joel Reyes, who gave Lesias the money to buy the gun from Seratubias, then got the purchased gun, and gave it to the group of Recamata.
The point of these reminders is that the gun used to kill Ortega was associated in one way or another with Joel Reyes.
Edrad’s testimony was full of details, including where and when he was given (by the former governor) the “mobilization” fund (of recruits). Edrad said Reyes told him not do the “trabaho” because they were too close, and Reyes might be implicated. Edrad also said that on the afternoon of the slaying, he went to the house of Mayor Marjo Reyes to collect (and receive) P500,000, the remainder of the payment for the killing.
It must have been a very convincing story, as told to the National Bureau of Investigation in the presence of Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn, to whom Edrad surrendered (about three weeks after the killing). Enough, anyway, to convince the Department of Justice to include him in its Witness Protection Program.
And that is why what the DOJ did next—or at least the panel of prosecutors appointed to look into the complaint of Ortega’s wife Patria Gloria against Reyes et al.—was so unexpected. Even as it found probable cause for murder against Edrad and the actual slayers, the panel dismissed the case against Reyes and his associates for “insufficiency of evidence.” This was on June 8, 2011, four months after the panel was formed.
Since the murderer and his accomplices had already confessed soon after the killing, the finding of probable cause against them was a no-brainer. But finding no probable cause against Reyes et al.? How could that be?
News reports said Edrad went berserk when Reyes and his associates were exonerated by the DOJ panel. I heard and read Edrad’s reaction, and it certainly had the ring of truth and righteous anger: How could he be indicted, while the people who had ordered and paid him to do it, were exonerated? I had also followed the news reports, and when the murder weapon was traced to a trusted aide of Joel Reyes, I thought it was an open-and-shut case.
But I wanted to read the DOJ resolution itself. When I got a copy recently, I read it, and my reaction was one of disbelief. So I asked my husband Christian to read it too—and he went one step farther: he looked at the Supreme Court decision cited by the DOJ panel to justify the exclusion of former Governor Reyes. His opinion? The panel of prosecutors stretched their interpretation of the decision.
I leave it to the lawyers to argue (and they are doing it). Mrs. Ortega has filed a motion for partial reconsideration, and another motion to reopen the preliminary investigation. Me, I can only say that the prosecution panel, composed of Edwin Dayog, Bryan Jacinto Cacha, and John Benedict Medina, should be ashamed of themselves. They not only stretched their interpretation of a Supreme Court decision, they went through all sorts of gymnastics to make it appear that the confessions presented had inconsistencies of a fatal nature. And believed without question the testimonies of Reyes et al. Sickening.
Just consider (from the extrajudicial confessions) two things: Neither Edrad nor the actual killer, Recamata, nor his lookout/recruiter, etc., knew Ortega. They had to be provided pictures (from Joel Reyes to Edrad to the rest). They had no motive for killing Ortega—other than that they were hired to do so. The question therefore that should have been posed was: Who hired them? If Edrad pointed to Reyes, and so many people around Reyes seemed to also have been implicated, shouldn’t that have been sufficient grounds for probable cause?
On the day of the killing, Edrad and two other plotters traveled in a rented van from Lucena, Quezon, to the house of Mayor Reyes in Ayala Alabang, where the latter gave him an envelope containing P500,000. Reyes does not deny the incident, but says the amount he gave to Edrad was only P5,000. Question: Does it make sense that Edrad would hire a van for at least an 8-hour trip just so he could get P5,000? You have to be stupid to say it does. But that’s exactly what the DOJ seems to believe.
The farce must be stopped.
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A Word to the Business Sector: Support Planning for Disaster Preparedness
Business is at the heart of this country's existence and survival. Without business, commerce, enterprise, industry, the services sector, even the informal economy, government alone or the people on their own, cannot provide employment to everyone.
In the face of this reality, it behooves business organizations to secure their future. To provide safety. To make the working place conducive to productivity. To generate more income for itself and those that benefit from it.
But even business has to plan for contingencies. And this is why most businesses have data back ups, file banks located outside of their own headquaters, amongst many others, including stored resources in cases of sudden emergency when a business' main operating base is paralyzed.
The enormity of loss and damage can be prevented, if proper planning is undertaken. There ought to be a meeting of minds between those in the business and other sectors of society to make this actually happen.
The Private Sector embarks on an initiative towards this end. If crime prevention is encouragingly moving towards positive directions, or United Nations peacekeeping forces are able to more or less predict the occurrence of new flash points and real violent incidents and provide measures to limit the casualties and damage, business and the other sectors can plan ahead to hinder the tremendous losses caused by disasters.
We want to encourage the Philippine Government, Asian Governments, combines like the United Nations, ASEAN and financial institutions like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, among many others, including the Grameen Bank to support this milestone activity the 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environment Summit in Manila from the remainder of 2009 up to 2010. The conference proper will take place in April 8-15, 2010 at Manila, Philippines.
ANNUAL ECOLOGY CRISIS CONFERENCE
The Resource Recovery Movement will hold the first 2010 Hazards Mapping and Environment Summit (Eco 2010 Summit) in Manila, Philippines. This is ultimately borne about by the tremendous changing of the Philippine landscape and those of other countries in the Pacific Rim in the last few decades. All efforts towards risk mapping in relation to calamities and disasters in the past should now take into consideration the great shifts and transformations in land mass, the enormous amount of rainfall brought about by Climate Change and many new factors that were heretofore not factored into national and sub-national planning by governments as well as even by business establishments and non-government organizations.
Click this link to sign up: Join Resource Recovery Movement!
The 2010 Hazard Mapping and Environmental Summit (HMES) is intended to develop better approaches to mapping risks and dangers to communities in the Philippines and other countries with tropical climates. It takes a cue from the recent experience in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, notwithstanding the previous experiences in Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan where scores of people died due to unforeseen occurrences during the incidence of a natural disaster: earthquake, typhoon, tsunami and other calamities. The databasing, mapping and full coordination of efforts towards use and sharing of a full function GIS on hazards, volcanoes, water, flood, forests in the Philippines and Asia, vulnerability areas, liquefaction potential, crisis and hot spots is long due because of the long-running phenomenon of Climate Change in the planet. This is also significant in that the Philippines, among other countries, lies in the Pacific Rim of Fire where a large number of earthquake faults lie.
The most important value of the conference is to determine the plan and the cost of implementing such a plan to make the Philippines and other participating nations safer from increasingly hazardous calamities.
Note: The organizers reserve the right to make minor changes in the Conference details prior to the actual Event.
HMES 2010 Organizers
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Ambassador Yuchengco will be vindicated
I agree completely with Girbaudz. Erap will not succeed in harassing Amb. Yuchengco. At his age, Erap should let the dragons sleep. Nothing will come out of fighting people who are not supposed to be his enemies. I am not a Yuchengco, but when I get a chance, I will bite Erap's ears until they tear away.
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DPWH official shot
What is happening at DPWH? Or more particularly, is it Sec. Ebdane who is being targeted?
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces Press office was also the victim of another theft, for the nth time, of their computers. Just fairly recently, the Plans department of the AFP was ransacked and computers were burgled.
Inside the AFP camp? Yes, Virginia, inside the AFP camp. Both happened in the watch of Gen. Alexander Yano.
What is that guy doing? Uhuurrrm!!!
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No One Deserves To be Unread
Wow! That's really true. But what does it make of me if I don't want to run for Congress? I know I had thoughts of becoming an Obama when I was 10 years old so that made me motivated in cleaning our floor, my room, helping cook (and ruining the dish) and doing so many good turns, ehehem!
Still, in the world of blogging, no one deserves to be really, really lonely and unpopular. Of course one merely has to learn the skills, acquire the talent for blogging to attract as many people as possible to one's blog.
This has its benefits. If your blog reaches out to 500 thousand readers each day, you become a target for advertisers. Much more if your blog posts get 5 billion and 700 thousand readers! My! That's a mighty lot of money for you if you didn't forget to -- as the carriers say -- monetize your blog. So start learning now!
Stop making your blog a lonely blog. Be best read. Post your nude pictures too if you must! eh he eh he eh he, but at least be best seen!!! Then post your videos with a YouTube or some other show window, be best heard, too!!! Yeheeey!!!
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Jan 15, 2009: Today is just another kidnap day
Wow! they just kidnapped an Italian -- Eugene Vagni, a Swiss ex-Special Forces soldier -- Andreas Notter and some Filipina engineer called Mary Jane Lacaba in Mindanao who are all working for ICRC. Its actually here in Makati near my office. Some say it's the Abu Sayyaf. But some say otherwise. Why? They were kidnapped inside the compound of a government office. The Provincial Capitol compound of the Province of Sulu. Oh my gosssshhh!!!
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Bad Wind in MobileCella Universe
In the second week of January this year before the Chinese New Year is over, there was talk again of business-ravaging coup plot or “coup scare” tactics. In fact I received a message myself circulating over the mobilecellia world via SMS that the recipient of the circulating text was a good civil society leader; that the recipient’s cell phone must always be kept open twenty four (24) hours; that the enemies of the administration failed to oust HE PGMA in the last quarter of 2008; that the recipient was being instructed to stay on alert for one (1) week up to two (2) months for a call to join barricades at an EDSA - type or Oakwood / Manila Peninsula Siege kind of mobilization. Oh my God! How presumptuous!
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Just wonderin...
News commentary: Ben Tulfo with UNTV Channel 37 said over national TV that there is now a move formerly secret now in the open, to kick out Mr. Lito Atienza, Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Why? The man seems to be doing a good job. Hmmm…. Who is Ben working for this time?
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Cold cold Images
Baguio was really at its coldest when I went home.
Terrible, it was hard I almost wanted to forget how to breath. Ugh!
But nothing is better than home. You see, if you were in my place, of course you'd keep coming and coming and coming back.
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confronting crisis
it's almost sona time once more. after the fanfare, the question is how does one really sustain a stable environment for governance in crisis?
in the u.s., economics in the form of the new deal, the new whatnot, solved the problem or a major part of it.
right now, we don't really know what "new-something" the bush administration has to offer its people during a gripping recession that threatens to blow the citizenry apart into serious polarities, or what manner of inventions and innovations such hardship will become mother to.
and then there is what carnegie or a similar exemplary orator, i think, cites as: the "theory of disaster and opportunity" as twin occurrences. wealth creation, supposedly occurs simultaneous with disaster, for the nimble minded. of course that is simple opportunism. in other cases, in the worst case scenario, fooling people and taking their wealth illegally happens during disaster. including looting, robbery, theft, even murder. hence the rcbc robbery massacre artificial portrayal of anarchy during national disaster in the Philippines.
however, indeed the new deal form of plan or program, the marshall plan, etc. could have a positive effect. this has been done countless times in the country: pump-priming the economy. keynesian economics.
what are some of the positive steps? here are some age-old suggestions:
1992-1999 ---- build a strong national safety sector and generate new partnerships with aid and funding agencies for the new sector, generate new kinds of users' charges such as for flyovers (aircraft not the ortigas flyover, stupid!), etc.
1992-1993 ---- satellite research - development - coordination agency. raise funds for satellite dependent activities and projects, programs. in the past, the government kept paying foreign satellite organizations hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars just to digitize microscopic satellite imagery for our mapping purposes, land registration services, etc. this could have been enhanced and the expenses not necessarily charged to the country's budgets were there more efforts to coordinate with existing and available funds for satellite related projects.
1994-1995 ---- build the office of international projects (cooperation and coordination for local and regional development). the knowing ones, according to sec. jose almonte during the early phase of the ramos administration, were able to make a business out of discounting treasury bills in the u.s. at a low rate, buying them back and reselling at a profitable cost. or something to that effect. at the time, the secretary of finance was del rosario. white haired albino mr. cuisia and other colleagues of his were together with del rosario at the helm of cory aquino's economic team. how fortunate for them!
the positive step to take in this direction is to engage in bank-supported short term currency trading, not hedging on our treasury bills. unless the fools of the cory administration actually engaged in currency trading but pretended to be merely hedging on t-bills.
1994-1995 ---- infusion, US$7-Billion or more for education infra and software in the country
1999 ---- utilize available us, german, swiss, lichtenstein, et al funds for philippine housing, over and above utilization of dormant world bank and international aided housing programs now worth several billions of dollars. the money from the donor agencies as of 1999-2000 were supposed to be reverted to sender due to the failure of the government to utilize them and yet the country keeps paying the funding agencies the prescription fees for blocking the accounts to which those funds belong. our economic managers are extremely stupid!
1999-2000 ---- let funders come in and completely release the project development proposals from "ownership" of little employees who act as if they are the actual country negotiators for the country and collect money from the representatives of funders who may or may not ask for certain fundable project development plans or master plans to be blocked from the public. one of the classic examples of these in 1999 is one ms. addi santos, who said that the master plan for airports in the country are her "personal property" and that no one! absolutely no one! is allowed to take a peek at them without her express personal permission. one belgium banker's representative was banned from the dotc (ms. santos' agency) for making a photocopy of one airport development plan. the general in charge of security was "ordered" by this little functionary at dotc to sign the ban order. some little person! could push and shove a retired general around like that!!! it's such a shame for the country!
1999-2000 ---- proposal for subway, patterned after the model of singapore, with belgian or other similar funding.
1950s or earlier-present ---- instilling of nationalism and patriotism proposals. a classic example is the staff of the project monitoring staff (pms) of the dotc who say:
whatever the japanese say about our development projects, we follow. it's because wala tayong pera. taga-tanggap lang naman tayo, pulubi tayo. kung yayain nila tayo kumain, sasama talaga tayo!!! kasi sila, nagpapakain!!! busog kami lagi!!! pag sinabi ng mga japanese sa amin, ito na ang final na gagawin, gagawin talaga na namin iyun!!! even if the japanese says, titihaya na kayo tapos tutuwad, then they say: "aba! OO!!!" [god in heavens!!!]
1992 ---- eradication of the usurero and erasing the middle men that form cartels in the primary commodity markets.
fairly recent to recent ---- comprehensive campaign vs. crime, drugs, violent protests.
certainly, there are so many other pump-priming projects. but katas ng vat is hardly an answer to all our woes! training and sending more and more ofws is a meager solution to our about-to-explode-social-volcano. specially since the foreign affairs and labor attache business is not well-managed and attended to. and now it is infested with worms from within trying to subvert the country's foreign relations!
the government should start with allocation of funds in better places. really better places.
the abovementioned are only glimpses and there are certainly so many bright minds inside the public and even the private sector that could be tapped to help in identifying the places where government could focus its positive fund allocations into.
finally, stop corruption so that all the funds will go to their right destinations.
kill greed.
balance trade.
stop media from pulling the country down.
unify the people. promote solidarity.
encourage dissent but radically stop the violent revolts.
encourage reformists. specially inside government.
mind the poor, mind the hungry and disenfranchised of society.
posted by: ezky at 23:57 |
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