Corruption in the Philippines.

Here's a copy of PERC's letter on the Philippines' corruption record.






Here's a copy of PERC's report on the Philippines' corruption record.

03..30.11

Today is another painful day for the Filipino nation. Sally Ordinario, Ramon Credo, and Elizabeth Batain will meet their creator as they die in the hands of the Chinese after conviction for illegal drug trafficking.t

Today marks the Philippine government's consistent failure to act on the menace called ILLEGAL DRUGS. These international drug syndicates preying on our OFWs can still walk around the country, freely, without the government catching them.

PNOY is not doing anything!!!!

Power Crisis - another Aquino legacy

In his speech before the Ateneo college graduation, PNoy again played his favorite game: BLAME GMA, this time for the power crisis.

But how can you blame the former president for this if government is not allowed by law to build power plants? Yet despite this restriction, she still managed to oversee the addition of 2500MW of generating capacity on her watch.

May we remind PNoy that the worst brownouts happened from 1987 to 1992.

Tapos galit pa si PNoy sa utang ng Napocor??! Bakit ba lumaki ang utang ng Napocor? Gusto ba ni PNoy na isauli ng masa ang electric subsidy na binigay sa kanila ng dating administrasyon?

PNoy's ratings are falling. People want to see performance. It is well past time to stop blaming and start working.

Illegal Drugs and PNoy

Three OFWs were sentenced with the death penalty in China after the People's Court of China found them guilty of smuggling illegal drugs. These three OFWs are the so-called drug mules employed by South African drug syndicates who freely entered the Philippines, inviting them to earn huge amounts of money by transporting illegal drugs to China.

There can no longer be any remedy in order to save our three kababayans from the penalty of death. While that is the case, our government should now look into others who vulnerable to being pawns and victims of these internation drug syndicates.

Is the government doing anything about this problem?

Some months since this issue came to PNoy's attention, he has not done anything yet to stop and arrest the members of these syndicates? Buti pa sa MMK naipakita na ang NBI ay ginagawa ang lahat para mahuli at maparusahan ang mga sindikatong ito. Buti pa sa palabas sa telebisyon.

Eh ang administrayon ni PNoy, o siya mismo, may sinabi na bang hakbang na gagawin? O hanggang backchanelling na lang tayo para mapigilan ang bitay sa China?

It is time that the President act. Sabi nga ng lider ng MIGRANTE, "Hindi ka namin nararamdaman PNoy!"

NO TO PEOPLE POWER nth!!!

Remember that Noynoy Aquino called for people power once he does not get elected president of this country. That is all he knows because he grew up knowing only that with his mediocre understanding of things.

People power no more. We must respect our laws and our institutions. Let us not allow the whims and childish acts of those who badly want to take over the reins of government to lure us into believing that people power is the key to resolve our national problems.

If we want our people to live in peace and in prosperity, let us forget staging another EDSA people power.

The heat is up

If you are the owner of a company and you have some of your men applying for the post of COO, who would you choose if you had the following options?

1. One who has been rumored to be a psychotic, has not done well in his years in the company, and looks like an idiot by the way he stands and walks? or
2. One who has been accused a lot of times of using company funds for his own account, pretends to be poor to be pitied, and uses his mother to save his own ass? or
3. One who just came out from jail?

The top candidates for the presidency don’t seem to be presidential at all? I really don’t get it why Filipinos still eat these guys’ crap. When we offer jobs, even just a janitorial job, we screen the applicants and make sure they at least have some qualifications for the job. And that is just a janitorial position. How come the presidency seems to have lost any semblance of significance that the guys who we put there can just apply without possessing any attribute of being a worthy president?

The problem is not really with the candidates. The problem is the voting public. Sad to admit, but it is not only the candidates who are stupid. The voters are.

Senator Villar and Businessman Villar

How dangerous can Manny Villar be when he becomes President?

News has it that Manny Villar allegedly barged in during a board meeting at the Philippine Stock Exchange to force the board to let him be exempted from the lock-up period for secondary offerings of his shares of stock in Vistaland and Lifescapes, Inc.

Villar interfered during the PSE board meeting sometime in 2007. Instead of sending his underwriters to do their thing, he personally went there maybe to use his position as Senator and impose his will upon the members of the board. Even as some people in the business community say that this "usually" happen whenever owners of business empires want something done in their favor, the case of Manny Villar is different. He is a senator and this surely is a prohibited transaction for a legislator. Clearly, there is conflict of interest because he is a public officer.

I don't know if Villar is just stupid or if he's just really an imposing man. One thing's for sure. He wants to get what he desires even to the point of using his public position. What more if he becomes president?