Tag: infrastructure

Before you ask the President “where is the change?” ask yourself if you have changed

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Ilda 19 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics are getting impatient. “Where is the change that he promised?” they ask. After a year in office, his fiercest critics are reminding him of the promises he made before the election. For instance, they cite his promise to end criminality within three to six months after election. It’s quite laughable…

Crime, Government, 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

The Top 5 Achievements Of President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino

May 16, 2016 Grimwald 19 Comments

Well, here we go again with President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino trumpeting his alleged achievements in the last six years. He even goes as far as to claim that “no one can top his achievements” and both he and his followers continue to believe that he was the “best president the Philippines has ever had”….

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government

Mar Roxas’s fatal campaign error: Selling continuity to a people who wanted change

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 benign0 78 Comments

It should have been obvious from the onset. Filipinos are not happy with the status quo under which they slog through life in the Philippines. Day-to-day, they are beaten down by rampant crime, imprisoned by gridlocked traffic, cowed by Islamic terrorism, and deeply embarrassed by an inability of their own armed forces to protect their…

Development, Economy, Politics

Rodrigo Duterte was a clear standout in the 3rd and last presidential debate #PiliPinasDebates2016

April 25, 2016 benign0 30 Comments

In tonight’s last presidential debtate endorsed by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) dubbed the hashtag #PiliPinasDebates2016, the candidates really did not have much to work with. They had no credible military capability to put teeth in the rhetoric they spewed about the China threat to the Philippines’ sovereignty in the South China Sea, no sharp-enough…

Media, Politics

Bongbong Marcos has become popular because Noynoy Aquino sucks!

February 28, 2016October 21, 2021 Ilda 90 Comments

Why has Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos become so popular with Filipino voters? There are plenty of reasons why but the number one reason is because of his Number One critic, current President Benigno Simeon Aquino. A lot of voters have become disillusioned by BS Aquino’s performance over the six years he’s held…

Politics

Don’t thank PNoy: Economic growth does not necessarily mean good governance!

February 22, 2016 David Yap II 13 Comments

Lately I’ve been seeing these posts thanking the president for increasing our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by something like 120 billion USD. It upsets me because it betrays a piss poor understanding of economics. I’ll give you two reasons why this thinking is wrong — because two is more than enough. First and foremost, the…

Development, Economy

Duterte’s dangerous experiment: Vigilantism as state-sanctioned doctrine

December 4, 2015 benign0 32 Comments

We all have bad experiences dealing with other people. Some of those experiences make us wish we could just take a gun and shoot whoever had caused those bad experiences. But we don’t because there are also consequences for doing so. Perhaps in the case of the Philippines, presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte and what he’s…

Crime, Culture, Development, Politics, Society, The South