Category: Development

Filipinos need a strong and unified resolve to get rid of their Squatter Mentality

September 7, 2015 Add 19 Comments

These days, the woeful plight of refugees trying to get into Europe is international news. They are running away from ISIS who have been pillaging their world and the dark forces that have been erasing their civilization. They are seeking a world where hope could be alive and aspire to leave a world where hope…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics

The next President of the Philippines should respect the Rule of Law for the country to progress

September 5, 2015 Ilda 47 Comments

The Philippines’ current list of “potential” candidates is very disappointing. Most of them are from the same crop of bozos from the country’s current ruling class. Their membership to this “elite” club means they are first loyal to their families and friends before they are loyal to the country and its people in general. Therefore,…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics

The Philippines’ traffic problems will never be solved. Here’s why…

September 4, 2015 benign0 37 Comments

The thing with the traffic mess in Metro Manila is that it is easy to pontificate about the ideal long-term solutions — “consistent enforcement of traffic rules”, “construction of more roads”, “modernisation of public transport infrastructure”, etc. Indeed, all of those are the obvious solutions; solutions that should have been implemented a long time ago…

Culture, Development, Society

Does the First World owe the rest of the world, its migrants and its refugees anything?

August 27, 2015 benign0 38 Comments

Europe and much of the rich world today is faced with a moral dilemma surrounding a tidal wave of desperate migrants massing at their borders fleeing war and poverty in their respective homelands. It’s a no-brainer. Migrants are seeking a “better life” in the First World and a slice of that legendary welfare state pie…

Civics, Culture, Development, Politics, Society

A real peace deal: Senator Bongbong Marcos’s Bangsamoro Autonomous Region

August 19, 2015August 19, 2015 Add 75 Comments

Alex Magno, one of the Leftist leaders from UP who fought Martial Law, wrote in his column in the Philippine Star as follows: The last nail on the BBL was driven last week at the Senate. In his best performance at the Senate thus far, Sen. Bongbong Marcos delivered a remarkable sponsorship speech for his…

Development, Government, Politics, The South

Let them eat cake: How much wretchedness can the Metro Manila commuter take until one says ‘enough’?

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 rsurtida 18 Comments

One good thing about being assigned in the graveyard shift in Metro Manila: The relative ease of commuting to work compared to the hapless regular shift employee facing the daily grind of both traffic in the major roads and the overworked and under-equipped MRT-3 train system traversing the EDSA thoroughfare that starts from the North…

Development, Government, Politics

Why potentially beneficial foreign ideas and influence have not worked in the Philippines

August 17, 2015January 17, 2016 FallenAngel 49 Comments

While writing “The hollowness and hypocrisy with which Filipinos regard foreign entities” (henceforth known as Hollowness) almost two months ago, it seems I had completely overlooked one striking manner in which they show such: When the Philippines is compared with another country in any category (response to typhoons is such an example), Filipinos are quick…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Emergency powers needed to fix Manila’s traffic catastrophe!

August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 benign0 9 Comments

Peace and order is seen to be a priority feature of modern societies that is important enough to warrant drastic measures enshrined in a national Constitution to guarantee that these be maintained. When there is a breakdown of peace and order, the law allows the government to declare a state of emergency and undertake drastic…

Development, Government, Politics, Society

zzz
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
It's funny how those without contribution run their mouths, seek
benign0
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Filipinos' tingala mentality. It is WORLD renowned.
Slaves
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
How’s being American puppets going? Maybe if you chose a
Gabsboy
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
It would have been absolute cinema had the military coups
Ven
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Who the hell is prepared for a crisis when any
megget
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
the filipino way is scraping by on the least amount
Gyn
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
This whole thing is not working, and you know it
Redd
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
"For now there is little promise seeing that Filipinos’ foremost