Category: Development

We Rip What We Sew: Hindrances to Genuine Progress in the Philippines

May 4, 2017 zaxx 3 Comments

As if being relentlessly subjected to searing heat and powerful devastating typhoons, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes on the Pacific Rim of Fire was not enough, many Filipinos like savage wolves are having a field day tearing apart their little would-have-been tropical paradise. Analogous to termites which build their house by slowly destroying their host’s fully…

Culture, Development

Why it is ABSOLUTELY wrong for Filipino workers to expect tips

May 2, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Tipping is a sad relic of American culture that Filipinos have embraced. Indeed, Filipino workers have gone further and perverted the concept by seeing tips as an entitlement rather than a mere pleasant surprise bonus from happy customers. Most disturbing of all is how “activists” encouraged people to tip workers on, of all occasions, labour…

Development, Economy, Society

Four aspects of Filipino society that are unlikely to change, even in a Duterte presidency

April 20, 2017April 20, 2017 FallenAngel 7 Comments

A typical evaluation, or discussion of the Duterte administration, usually begins with this underlying premise: Rodrigo Duterte was elected because Filipinos wanted change. For sure, Rodrigo Duterte is different in more ways than one. He is the first president who hails from Mindanao; as such, people are expecting a sort of “outsider’s perspective” from him,…

Culture, Development, Politics, Society

#Dutertenomics heralds the dawn of a ‘golden age of infrastructure’ for the Philippines

April 19, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde The government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to shift to deficit spending to the tune of hundreds of billions of pesos in investments in infrastructure for this financial year alone. This follows decades of underspending and a steady…

Development, Economy

KADAMAY squatter mentality at heart of chronic Filipino poverty

April 8, 2017 benign0 13 Comments

Whether one is rich or poor, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Everyone pays their way. Rich people are rich because they were likely to be exceptionally clever or industrious (or both). Poor people are poor because they likely habitually enter into commitments they are inherently incapable of honouring. The common denominator,…

Crime, Culture, Development, Society

Go forward with Duterte, or slide backward with the Liberal Party – Filipinos are left little choice

March 20, 2017March 22, 2017 FallenAngel 32 Comments

Of course, the “logically obsessed” would beg to disagree. They will contend that just because one criticizes Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, it doesn’t mean that they are “dilawan”, or siding with the Liberal Party (LP) – arguably the loudest voice in the opposition, or some people would like to say, the anti-Duterte camp. And vice…

Culture, Development, Politics

Winston Q8 Violation of Migrant Workers Act Imperils Health Secretary Ubial’s Confirmation

March 4, 2017 P. Farol 7 Comments

Bringing change to the country is a monumental challenge that President Rodrigo Duterte ALONE cannot accomplish. This is the reason why it is vitally important that the people he has appointed to his cabinet be able and willing to help him fulfill his campaign promises. Of course, it need not be said that those he…

Development, Economy, Government

The Liberal Party has FAILED in its role as part of ‘the opposition’

March 1, 2017 FallenAngel 5 Comments

There is something to be said about how the Liberal Party (LP), the political force that has remained ubiquitous ever since the 1986 People Power Movement, has handled its role as part of political opposition to the Rodrigo Duterte administration. The volume of statements coming from the LP-led opposition has not died down, despite the…

Development, Government, Politics

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