Maraming negosyo, maraming trabaho
fb.watch/85Tw4nj2T4/ youtu.be/fia2-YkAr7s18 September 2021
They teach about martial law of Marcos, but not about Plaza Miranda bombing, Joma & Ninoy, nor about China supplying arms to NPA
"They would teach about martial law declared by the Marcos administration in September 1972, as a mere ploy to extend their terms in office, citing the arrest and detention of many political personalities. However, they would not teach about the Plaza Miranda bombing that terrorized and killed innocents in August 1971, that was initially blamed on Mr. Marcos but later pointed at the CPP-NPA under Jose Maria Sison, in likely collaboration with Mr. Ninoy Aquino, the presumptive presidential candidate of the Liberal Party. They also would not teach about the supply of arms by the Peoples’ Republic of China to the CPP-NPA, shown by the MV Karagatan incident in July 1972, and the widespread communist insurgencies in Southeast Asia at the time, where practically all neighboring countries were under martial law."
The Miseducation of the People's Power Generation
https://www.mainews.ph/features2/category/3-politics.html?download=67:the-miseducation-of-the-people-s-power-generation
They teach about human rights under Marcos & Duterte, but not about fatalities from NPA communist rebellion
"They would teach about human rights violations of the Marcos administration, which allegedly involved 3,257 extra-judicial killings during 1970s and 1980s, per Amnesty International and the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines. They also would teach about the 5,526 drug suspects killed from 2016 to 2019, as per data of the PNP and PDEA. However, they would not teach about the 43,000 fatalities between 1969 and 2008 from the armed rebellion of the CPP-NPA-NDF."
The Miseducation of the People's Power Generation
https://www.mainews.ph/features2/category/3-politics.html?download=67:the-miseducation-of-the-people-s-power-generation
They teach about Hello Garci & Pres. Arroyo, but not about the US Embassy, Hyatt 10, IFES & Smartmatic
3."They would teach about the Hello Garci scandal, where then President Arroyo was recorded calling Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano to allegedly rig the results in her favor. However, they would not teach about the role of the US Embassy in instigating the Hello Garci and Hyatt 10 scandals, because of Arroyo’s alleged refusal to align Philippine foreign policy with US foreign policy. They also would not teach about the role of IFES (International Federation of Electoral Systems), a Washington based NGO funded by USAID and the US State Department, in securing the entry into the country of the Venezuelan company Smartmatic, to take full technical control of Philippine automated elections, characterized by the disablement of basic safeguards against fraud."
The Miseducation of the People's Power Generation
https://www.mainews.ph/features2/category/3-politics.html?download=67:the-miseducation-of-the-people-s-power-generation
They teach about Marcos ill-gotten wealth, but not about Cory's relatives & allies taking government assets, nor about Noynoy's unconstitutional DAP
"They would teach about the P171 billion of ill-gotten wealth recovered from the Marcos family by the PCGG during the period from 1986 to 2017. However, they would not teach about the questioned disposition by President Cory Aquino in favor of her relatives and allies, of shares recovered by the government in PLDT, PAL, Meralco and ABS-CBN. They also would not teach about the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) of President Noynoy Aquino, a secret budget declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, valued at P144 billion from 2011 to 2013."
The Miseducation of the People's Power Generation
https://www.mainews.ph/features2/category/3-politics.html?download=67:the-miseducation-of-the-people-s-power-generation
They teach about removal of CJ Sereno, but not about impeachment of CJ Corona
"They would teach about the removal of Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno in May 2018, by the Supreme Court itself, as politically motivated simply because she was an appointee of President Noynoy Aquino. However, they would not teach about the removal of Chief Justice Renato Corona by impeachment in May 2012, who insisted “this (was) all about Hacienda Luisita” because he recently led the Supreme Court to rule against the Aquino family. They also would not teach about the alleged bribery of senators by the Aquino administration, to ensure Corona’s conviction, using public funds from DAP."
The Miseducation of the People's Power Generation
https://www.mainews.ph/features2/category/3-politics.html?download=67:the-miseducation-of-the-people-s-power-generation
11 September 2021
Civil society for constitutional reforms (Part 2) - Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas
Civil Society for Constitutional Reforms (Part 2)
Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas
06 July 2017
TanDem, a part of civil society organized by concerned citizens to promote inclusive growth through political reforms, has proposed to amend the Philippine Constitution of l987 by removing the restrictions, limitations and prohibitions against foreign direct investments. After consulting a group of experts over a period of six months, the members of TanDem summarized the major reasons for their proposed amendments. I enumerate their major arguments.
The Philippines has embraced massive poverty since the birth of the Republic until today. Out of the present estimated 104 million population, where some 65 million are in the labor force, about 4 million are unemployed while 12 million are underemployed. To address massive poverty, it is necessary to raise equally massive capital to create or support sustainable jobs. It costs about Php100,000.00 to employ a single employee for one full year, based on the lowest minimum wage and cost of business operations. It would, therefore, cost at least a staggering 400 billion pesos to employ all the unemployed for just one year.
Unfortunately, instead of making use of all available capital resources, whether local or foreign, for job generation, the 1987 Constitution—together with numerous congressional statutes and implementing rules and regulations—have instead chosen to restrict foreign direct investments in several sectors of the economy, to protect the monetary interests of Filipino business people belonging to the “mayaman” class, at the expense of Filipino workers and consumers of the middle and the “masa” classes, who are then systematically deprived of better job opportunities and cheaper goods and services. These restrictions curtail the fundamental right to employment, which is the most important labor right that gives life to all other labor rights, such as those providing for the minimum wage, working conditions, social security, security of tenure, and self-organization. Without the actual jobs, all other rights under the labor laws and social legislation mean nothing to the workers.
About 10.2 million Filipinos live overseas of which some 2.4 million are overseas Filipino workers. Common sense tells us that it is better to allow foreign investors to move into the country and hire Filipinos locally, rather than force Filipinos to move overseas, many of whom leave their families behind, and then work for foreign employers in a foreign land under a foreign government. The liberalization of foreign investments, to complement local investments, reasonably lead to job creation (by establishing new business enterprises or expanding existing business enterprises); consumer price reduction (by increasing the supply of goods and services); technology transfer (by adopting and improving foreign technology); access to foreign markets (by tapping foreign investors to sell Philippine goods and services in their homelands); and anti-corruption (by allowing the entry of independent foreign competitors that can counteract the monopoly power of existing Filipino cartels of government suppliers.
The fear of foreign investors taking over the Philippine economy is outdated. We are no longer in colonial times during which foreign investors came with their foreign colonial armies who helped them take control of the national economy. Foreign colonial armies have long gone, with only the Philippine security forces remaining to protect the interests of the Filipino people. It is furthermore proposed that a Foreign Investment Council be established to address the risk of foreign governments, cartels and other groups who may pursue agendas prejudicial to the basic securities (external, internal, food, water, energy, environmental, resource, etc.) of the Filipino people. The institution of a Foreign Investment Council may strike a balance between the need to liberalize foreign investments for economic and social gains, and the need to protect the basic securities of the people and the State. The existing inflexible legal framework providing for blanket restrictions and criminal liability for violations drive away the legitimate foreign investors while endowing Filipino business people the license to capture the local market for themselves, disregarding the divergent interests of the Filipino workers and consumers.
These arguments were not arrived at willy nilly. They were distilled from volumes of proceedings of many hours of discussion of members of the academe, government, business and civil society. The only guiding principle was the common good of society, defined as a juridical or social order that enables every member of society to attain his or her fullest integral human development. By being more open to Foreign Direct Investments, countries like China and Vietnam, have within the last twenty or so years attained higher levels of human development that we have. It is about time that we do amend the Constitution for the sake of future generations who will benefit most from a more open economy than the one we have lived with over the last thirty years. For comments, my email address is bernardo.villegas@uap.asia.
http://www.bernardovillegas.org/index.php?go=/Articles/723/
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