What a huge mammoth task ahead for the Candidates.
1) How to remain financially sound after spending close to R2 billion since mid-2008,
2) explain how huge sums were sourced and pay the right income tax,
3) stop telling voters (and the people) how they suffered deprivation in childhood,
4) how to change (not abolish) the poverty picture from about 50 million poor Filipinos to only 10 million, or about 9.3 percent of the 93 million population, and
5) how to minimize (not totally eliminate) losses at BIR, BoC, DPWH, Comelec, and money-making/regulatory agencies of the government for starters.
Posted By Roming (Comments are welcome at roming@pefianco.com).
In the last five days, voters and non-voters tended to waste an hour or two if it was necessary for all presidential candidates to subject themselves to a thorough sanity test.
There's one point poor/lazy staff work betrayed itself: All presidential candidates, except for one or two, were known public figures before filing their CoCs on or before December 1, 2009.
Erap, the oldest
Erap, as the oldest candidate, has been in the thick of a political struggle since 1963, when Noynoy was three years old. Quezon was elected at 57 and Osmeña retired at 68.
In the 1970s, one European doctor heard boxing champion Ali on TV telling tall stories about his career for being "I'm the greatest." The doctor's comment that "the greatest" should see a brain specialist for once had reached the champion's promoters and camp.
'He's nuts!"
Ali flew into a rage and shouted: "He's nuts! He should see a head doctor himself." Ali is now 68 (born 1942) and first won fame and a gold medal at 18 in the 1960 Olympic in Rome (light heavyweight division). Boxing journalists judged him as the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. His skillful footwork and stylish boxing were matched by his quick-fire wit. In 1984, Ali revealed he was suffering from Parkinson's disease and since then has remained a revered hero of boxing.
For all his fire and glory Ali has not invited fellow boxers to take a sanity test after knocking down Sonny Liston in 1964 and winning the Supreme Court's approval in 1971 for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
No platforms
National candidates should consider the following: 1) How to remain financially sound after spending close to R2 billion since mid-2008, 2) explain how huge sums were sourced and pay the right income tax, 3) stop telling voters (and the people) how they suffered deprivation in childhood, 4) how to change (not abolish) the poverty picture from about 50 million poor Filipinos to only 10 million, or about 9.3 percent of the 93 million population, and 5) how to minimize (not totally eliminate) losses at BIR, BoC, DPWH, Comelec, and money-making/regulatory agencies of the government for starters.
Solutions
Politicians in Britain, the US, Japan, Germany, and other progressive states present specific solutions to complicated problems, especially on the economy.
Have we ever heard our politicians worrying about insurgency, the big drought and other national breakdowns? Ruling party, a patchwork
There's no coalition government (of two or three parties) in RP, a rare political cooperation which political scientists could only see in Germany, France, and other developed countries.
The breakup of Lakas and Co. is not for real. There was no such coalition since the very start. Formal parties have a list of members, supporters, and followers, not the so-called turo-turo list existing in their minds.
Lakas and Co. came into being without a formal convention or election of officers as Britain's Labour and Conservative parties have been doing for generations. In RP, there are no party sanctions for, to quote Mayor Lacson, political butterflies or perpetual party shoppers.
Party shopping
Illustration: Gibo left the NPC without (reportedly) the consent/knowledge of his uncle, Danding Cojuangco, the party he organized in the early 1990s. He joined Lakas, etc., over and above the sadness/objections of the "ever loyal and faithful members" of the ruling party. The break-up started then and there, not this or last week.
How are parties/coalitions in RP formed? It's like this: Three or four well-known political leaders and their alalays meet and just baptize a new "coalition" of parties with no known membership lists and roster or staff of officers elected by the rank-and-file members. Illustration again: Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were elected party leaders by known party followers and members of the House of Commons. No party leader in Britain can be elected/deposed without a vote.
Speaking of great coalitions
Coalition of parties have the blessing of party members and leaders as in the case of Angela Merkel in her first term as chancellor in 2005 whose integrity was unassailable.
In May, 1940, Winston Churchill led a coalition government of Labour and Conservative parties. The coalition governed Britain during the war (1940-45).
After WW II, the coalition seemed no longer necessary and Labour won a landslide victory in the 1945 elections.
In RP, parties start sprouting in Metro Manila and big provinces days before the last day of filing CoCs for national and local candidates. (Comments are welcome at roming@pefianco.com).
In the last five days, voters and non-voters tended to waste an hour or two if it was necessary for all presidential candidates to subject themselves to a thorough sanity test.
There's one point poor/lazy staff work betrayed itself: All presidential candidates, except for one or two, were known public figures before filing their CoCs on or before December 1, 2009.
Erap, the oldest
Erap, as the oldest candidate, has been in the thick of a political struggle since 1963, when Noynoy was three years old. Quezon was elected at 57 and Osmeña retired at 68.
In the 1970s, one European doctor heard boxing champion Ali on TV telling tall stories about his career for being "I'm the greatest." The doctor's comment that "the greatest" should see a brain specialist for once had reached the champion's promoters and camp.
'He's nuts!"
Ali flew into a rage and shouted: "He's nuts! He should see a head doctor himself." Ali is now 68 (born 1942) and first won fame and a gold medal at 18 in the 1960 Olympic in Rome (light heavyweight division). Boxing journalists judged him as the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. His skillful footwork and stylish boxing were matched by his quick-fire wit. In 1984, Ali revealed he was suffering from Parkinson's disease and since then has remained a revered hero of boxing.
For all his fire and glory Ali has not invited fellow boxers to take a sanity test after knocking down Sonny Liston in 1964 and winning the Supreme Court's approval in 1971 for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
No platforms
National candidates should consider the following: 1) How to remain financially sound after spending close to R2 billion since mid-2008, 2) explain how huge sums were sourced and pay the right income tax, 3) stop telling voters (and the people) how they suffered deprivation in childhood, 4) how to change (not abolish) the poverty picture from about 50 million poor Filipinos to only 10 million, or about 9.3 percent of the 93 million population, and 5) how to minimize (not totally eliminate) losses at BIR, BoC, DPWH, Comelec, and money-making/regulatory agencies of the government for starters.
Solutions
Politicians in Britain, the US, Japan, Germany, and other progressive states present specific solutions to complicated problems, especially on the economy.
Have we ever heard our politicians worrying about insurgency, the big drought and other national breakdowns? Ruling party, a patchwork
There's no coalition government (of two or three parties) in RP, a rare political cooperation which political scientists could only see in Germany, France, and other developed countries.
The breakup of Lakas and Co. is not for real. There was no such coalition since the very start. Formal parties have a list of members, supporters, and followers, not the so-called turo-turo list existing in their minds.
Lakas and Co. came into being without a formal convention or election of officers as Britain's Labour and Conservative parties have been doing for generations. In RP, there are no party sanctions for, to quote Mayor Lacson, political butterflies or perpetual party shoppers.
Party shopping
Illustration: Gibo left the NPC without (reportedly) the consent/knowledge of his uncle, Danding Cojuangco, the party he organized in the early 1990s. He joined Lakas, etc., over and above the sadness/objections of the "ever loyal and faithful members" of the ruling party. The break-up started then and there, not this or last week.
How are parties/coalitions in RP formed? It's like this: Three or four well-known political leaders and their alalays meet and just baptize a new "coalition" of parties with no known membership lists and roster or staff of officers elected by the rank-and-file members. Illustration again: Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were elected party leaders by known party followers and members of the House of Commons. No party leader in Britain can be elected/deposed without a vote.
Speaking of great coalitions
Coalition of parties have the blessing of party members and leaders as in the case of Angela Merkel in her first term as chancellor in 2005 whose integrity was unassailable.
In May, 1940, Winston Churchill led a coalition government of Labour and Conservative parties. The coalition governed Britain during the war (1940-45).
After WW II, the coalition seemed no longer necessary and Labour won a landslide victory in the 1945 elections.
In RP, parties start sprouting in Metro Manila and big provinces days before the last day of filing CoCs for national and local candidates. (Comments are welcome at roming@pefianco.com).
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