The Art of the Start is a book on entrepreneurship by former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki. He wrote five things about starting any organization or business: first, make meaning; second, to make a mantra; third, get going; fourth, define your business model and five, weave milestones, assumptions and tasks.
The Aquino Campaign has come to make meaning. It has come together to right a terrible wrong. It comes together to make the Philippines a better place and to increase the quality of life for Filipinos. The Aquino Campaign comes together under a common credo: a government based on transparency, personal and institutional integrity, honesty and good governance. The Aquino and Roxas Campaign is running on a platform of transformational change driven by a sea of yellow. If I had to distill the Aquino and Roxas Platform and their social contract with the Filipino people into a short mantra then it would be this: authentic values, honest governance.
That’s what we have here, isn’t it?
Critics and cynics would argue that this Aquino is running on his parents’ popularity. Yet to disengage Cory’s death with Noynoy’s running for the presidency would be folly. If Cory was alive today, then it would have been Mar Roxas running for President and not Noynoy Aquino. It would have been Escudero and Villar slugging it out in this contest. All that changed with Cory Aquino’s passing. The old Yellow Army awakening from its slumber, remembering what it was like 20 odd years ago and how much this nation has fallen since.
Was it so different then? With all the warlords and all the violence?
Our Shattered Talismans lie at our feet. We’ve hidden behind a shield of women and media and lawyers. Like every army in the world knows, someone else will build a better weapon to counter ours. It is always just a matter of time. Finally, someone found an intensified insanity to shatter our fragile shield.
Filipinos must awaken to realize that the game has once more changed and that we are not so innocent anymore.
To forget too that every Filipino is complicit in the state our nation now stands in, will be disingenuous. We can not right wrongs by throwing blame. We can not right wrongs by being righteous. We can not right wrongs by alienating people based on the stark reality that they were not against Arroyo and her brand of government. Every warm body on the yellow column diminishes the ability of the oranges, the blues and the reds and all the others to shine their light.
So we must get going. Good enough is good enough. However imperfect this Aquino is and however might the other colors of the rainbow are tarnished or mostly lackluster, tomorrow marches forward. There will be unimaginable acts of cruelty that would make the Maguindanao Massacre seem timid. There will be storms as horrifying as Ondoy or worse. There will be another overshooting Dubai, whose ego inflation and recklessness will mean for troubled markets and lost opportunities across the world.
The business model for tomorrow must be an unshakable faith in the Filipino. It is difficult to set aside cynicism. A leadership that drives milestones and tasks— to prove its worth everyday is the success that fuels faith and that drives the nation and shatters cynicism.
Our greatest enemy is to look to the safe mediocrity of what has come before; to stand still as our nation is ravaged by corruption, lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric. It must now be a time of imagination and courage.
When all I could see was bitterness and darkness, a wise friend, she shared this old song with me. “Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun, like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood, who can say if I’ve been changed for the better?” I can say, “yes, I was changed for the better”. Perhaps it would be six months, can we ask the same of our candidates? Perhaps, it would be in six years, “Mr. President, has the Filipino been changed for the better?”
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An excellent article.
The worst enemy of Filipinos are themselves. We are very hard to
accept changes. The Feudalism/Warlords/Datuism must go. Other countries had removed them from their ways of government many centuries ago. We are still in this era in this computer/digital age. England divested its Divine Rights of Kings. When King John signed the Magna Carta (Human Rights). Medieval French removed the rule of the French Aristocracy by the Jacobin French Revolution. Russia destroyed the divine rule of the Czars by its October Revolution. China dismantled its Family Dynasties thru the Sun Yat Sen Revolution. Japan surrendered its Divinity of its Emperor by its defeat in World War II.
I do not preach revolutions. We can change peacefully, if we like. As the old Chinese proverb has stated:” The journey to a thousand miles, begins with one single step.” Can the next Filipino generation take this single historic step?
Where are we? We are still ruled by DATUS/ Feudal Lords, masquerading as elected Politicians. Hacienderos/Feudal Lords and their families are mostly in Congress, in the Senate,and in Malacanang Palace. The Hacienderos/Feudal Lords in Mexico were removed by the Mexican Revolution in the begining of this century.
We are an anachronistic country in the midst of a digital world!
Does this mean that the Aquino/Roxas tandem is the start of a new model for political entrepreneurship?
The structure and system of the societal format will not change but we will have a more benign
model of a feudal system with kinder souls at the top?
I did not read anything in their platform about the need for government to remove the more onerous policies on the rules laying down the measured capacities for sectors in the economy. That is what is keeping these overlords in power.
It simply made motherhood statements about food security and the need for rural development. They did not place their policy framework to achieve this glorious wish list.
GMA’s greatest failure is her audacity to set herself apart from her own Presidency. She failed to realize that she was the decider and continuously blamed the system. Her monstrous ego defined by the hacendera complex blaming her ills on her subjects.
Just look at the new bunch of Senators coming in under the Liberal slate. Drillon and Roco. Sonia’s husband and Drilon should have been prosecuted after the Marcos downfall for what they did for Cojuangco. They were on the list for prosecution. Biazon is part of the family that made political office a family business enterprise. The same with Guingona. Acosta another scion of a political family wanting to trade up. Osmena and Recto living on their name and their wives popularity and money.
The only persons with an ideology is Hontiveros and Lim who are part of the fragmented left and fragmented right. Being pragmatic about coalescing with their most natural enemies who have the material resources to get them into a higher political platform.
ABS-CBN has turned itself into the main publicist for the OLD ORDER masquerading as the agents for meaningful change.
They should add “Constitutional integrity” and the “rule of law”. If they are serious about law, then give the courts integrity and force quick, fair, professional rendering of justice as the highest priority. Right now the courts are a joke, which means the rule of law is a joke. Which means Philippine civilization is a joke and every politician is simply blowing smoke.
No enforcement = no laws. No justice = amoral society.
Proper values require proper laws and proper delineation and enforcement of right vs wrong.
Joe
Joe, imho, more than the Platform, the Credo is better barometer of what Noynoy Aquino is thinking, his belief, what he values the most and where he is coming from. Part of the Credo reads:
Beliefs are a dime a dozen.
The crux of the matter is how will the belief be translated into reality?
What’s the time frame?
What are the resources to be deployed?
What’s the methodology?
What are the metrics to be able to measure whether the belief is correct or not?
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant/Results-Oriented, Time-Bound
To paraphrase the neighborhood sari-sari store – credo sounds good, but I prefer platforms.
Cocoy,
Those are good expressions, but I somehow am left with wanting more specifics. It just reads as more namby pamby smoke. I suppose my bias comes from a lifetime of living in the corporate world where nothing much dramatic gets achieved unless it is specific, measurable, and has a time line. That is why the Perlas platform is stronger than the rest; he has some specific goals and specific time lines.
As it pertains to justice, the “vision” needs to be capped with “how”. I would suggest a “People’s Justice” order that would, for example: (1) remove court fees so the poor have access to justice, (2) provide a “small claims” process that gives the modest of means access to judicial or administrative rulings (e.g., focused on small-time corruption cases), (3) end the requirement that an attorney submit cases so intelligent people are not bound by the barriers of cost, coddling, and incompetence that now exist, (4) mandate limited time frames for judicial rulings; monitor, measure, and publish court production by type of case; then establish minimum standards that would result in dismissal of unproductive judges.
These measures should be in place within one year. And separation between judges and executive and legislative bodies should be mandated as an ethical requirement.
A tad idealistic, but you get the point. Tell us precisely HOW justice will be delivered. How will the people be given a voice and tools to attack injustice and closed favoritism that now reigns so free.
Other than violence.
Joe
Joe, it’s a Credo so by nature it has to be short, general (and clear). Then is the Platform, which is also mercifully short but likewise clear. I too have spent a lifetime in the Corporate world and one thing i’ve learned is that short and clear documents are more often more well thought out than those with more pages.
Joe, I think specifics— would have be spread out durning the campaign and of course when elected. As much as I would like to agree with you, re: specifics, I think it would be like revealing a team playbook.
The Opposing Team will just find ways to counter it before you got a chance to implement. This isn’t just coming from you— but from a lot of people like yourself and myself. I’d wager people in his campaign are asking the same question. Is he maverick enough to actually do crazy things when elected to ruin the alliance his party is forging? What is Noynoy going to do when elected?
I think as a matter of strategy and tactic, he should keep specifics when he gets elected.
I think you and I and a lot of people are so used to getting instant answers we find real life to be so utterly slow!
I think the purpose of the Credo is for each member of his team and for the public in general to see that that is his belief is. The credo is kinda like what a declaration of independence is, while the platform is the framework for a constitution/playbook.
cvj, Though I would prefer a shorter platform and a platform that is more forward looking (there is nothing in there about Internet and technology), I think this is the best we could hope for at this juncture. And yeah, I agree with you this platform is short enough and clear enough to be understood.
motherhood statements don’t cut it.
the playbook is about tactics to win the election.
how you get the specifics of governance to become transformed into reality is what the public is asking for.
your vaporware sounds good, but it’s time people step up to the plate and DEMAND PLATFORMS NOT CREDOS AND COP-OUTS.
PLATFORMS – NOT VAPORWARE.
cocoy, cvj,
Makes sense. I think a fair, independent, barrier-free, responsive judiciary is essential to a well-working nation of laws, so I will be looking at all the platforms for specifics on how the people get a voice in the nation’s courts. Not one stifled by fees, favoritism, and horrid inefficiency.
Joe
Cocoy : In my opinion, NoyNoy (and all candidates) should talk about the top 2 or 3 things they intend to accomplish in year-one of their administration. Of course, announcing the details allows the opposition to tear at and make ridiculous what are being proposed. But this is part of what elections should be.
May2010-election is more important than choosing between a Timex, a Casio or a Seiko wristwatch. We’re talking six-year contract. The GMA-replacement can raise VAT; can get in the way to prevent a Con-Ass or ConCon; can choose “more war” (or “more talk”) with regards Mindanao. The GMA replacement can even push to tax OFW-income!!!!
Bakit nga ba hindi? The candidates should give more details. Pinoy voters deserve to hear more specifics so they can choose based on information, not based on the salesmen’s last names.
Joe, re: “I think a fair, independent, barrier-free, responsive judiciary is essential to a well-working nation of laws” I couldn’t agree with you more. Time will tell.
BongV, we still have a long road towards May 2010. please refer to my reply to joe on the same and appropriate question you raised.
Cheers!
cocoy:
am i supposed to know the features of a car after i bought it?
not really a good way to buy a car :)
BongV,
The cars are still being designed, so don’t make the buying decision until the engineering is done.
Now, alas, manufacturing takes 6 years so you will not know until 2016 what you really bought.
That’s why we can only go by things like how much we trust the manufacturer to follow the engineer’s specs. It is why character is so important.
Joe
@ bongV
Sabi ni Cocoy… Bilihin mo muna daw bago ka magtanong ng detalye ng kotse. “the details have to be spared”…. HELLOW?
Joe:
Am not talking about concept cars – am talking about the cars in the showroom. 2009 Camry, 2009 Corolla, 2009 Prius, 2009 Accord, 2009 Mustang, Sarao Jeepney, Hummer H2, Wrangler Jeep, Cherokee Jeep, BMW X3, BMW x4, BMW X5, BMW X6,Ford Mustang, Ford Focus, Ford Taurus, Dodge Intrepid -
One model ran on the road called Congress and another called Senate – it did not deliver.
You are asking people to choose a model that did not deliver?
in my opinion, all candidates must have an outline to correspond to the goal and mission of this country supported by step by step process on how to implement the outline. This way, local government offices can carry on their duties according to the step by step… alam mo na.. mga tanga at ugok sila….
Credo is the goal and mission. that’s basic and yet Noynoy is still guided by Cocoy… te he..
The Platform includes policies that will target specific problem such as employment, healthcare, FDI, education, land reform, climate change and many more….
leytenian,
It seems like, I’ve always taken sides with you.
Cocoy, yes! his a good campaigner for Noynoy. You’re absolute korek dyan. We will have to wait and see what these Trapos/Cronis have to present to the Filipinos.
Food for Thoughts:
• Can Cocoy be considered one of the Cronis.
• Or just an ordinary citizens helping us to choose decively.
There are corporations which excel and there are corporations which are mediocre.
There are corporation which practice MBO and there are corporations that are corporations in name only, but operate like sari-sari stores with a parochial view. The corporation that embraces the global view in a world that grows increasingly borderless aces the kupong kupong corporation of Limahong.
When you walk into a shareholders meeting, you don’t just present the Executive Summary – you provide the meat. Credo works for the Enrons of the world, but British Petroleum prefers the well thought out approach. Guess whose shareholders tanked.. LOL
here’s what i’ve posted on my face book notes:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000117328358&ref=search&sid=788787146.1287597802..1#/note.php?note_id=220457091322&comments
I’ve read on the Lopezes’ Newspaper yesterday… the Philippine Star News a whole page of parroting, cynicism and negativity of everything the Noynoy’s campaign is built on.
1. The so-called “platform” has mentioned cynicism yet it becomes a cynic by stating its commitment in a negative form where it assumes that the present administration has everything to do with all the hardships we are experiencing… NONOY… nangyari na yan nung pang panahon ni Marcos…. PINANGAKO DIN YAN NG NANAY MO PERO NAPAKO. You’re simply parroting all these promises made by your dead mother!
2. It still builds up on the Cory Aquino deadness. As it builds on the marketing aspect of the deadness of his mother. Pwede ba… don’t drag the cadaver of your mother in your campaign… BE YOUR OWN MAN!!!
3. DON’T BUILD YOUR PLATFORM ON NEGATIVITY… THIS BEGETS NEGATIVITY AND CYNICISM…
Still all motherhood statements… No more no less. You should probably review your dead mother’s 1987 constitution that she’s eventually disregarded to the letter and the spirit. May her soul rest in peace together with the Luisita farmers and the Mendiola massacred farmers!!!
DON’T CUT AND PASTE…. Maging Original ka naman!!!
Buti pa ki nut and paste mo na lang yung buong 1987 constitution.
WHERE is the “transformational change” in Aquino’s Senatorial Slate:
LP has Recto (the GMA Apologist), the Trapo Drilon…and now they want to make that moron Chiz “Boy Laway” Escudero part of their campaign team? He’s basically putting back mummy’s old cabinet. (Well, he must be a bit stupid to invite that Marcos beneficiary Chiz)
Recycled garbage politicians.
Noynoy should GROW A SPINE and tell all these old hacks off instead of letting them kiss ass.
thenashman,
Really important perspective. “Friends and relatives in high places”, not competency. It is a major rot of Philippine government and business culture. It would be highly dismaying to see old blood recycled, rather than dynamic new blood brought to the Cabinet. The Senate and House are so packed with stooges now that they are fundamentally useless. But the President’s cabinet is quite another story . . .
Joe
We have these issues that needed to be addressed by all candidates:
1. Political Warlords/Provincial Feudal Lords masquerading as elected Politicians. They control everything, including people’s lives in their political Provincial fiefdoms.
2. Squatters in Metro Manila and everywhere. They are on esteros;
along the rivers and creeks; along the seashores; around the Laguna
de Bay, etc… They pollute the environment. They are trapped in
a vicious cycle of poverty. What will you do with them?
3. Mindanao Problem. The Muslim leaders are causing the problems of insurgency. They use religion to cause the problem. If there were
no problems in peace and order. They cannot rule. What are your
solutions ?
4. Energy Program and self sufficiency. What are your programs to
make us energy self sufficient?
Hundreds more I can enumerate. We want DETAILS in what you will
and can do. We dont want GENERALIZED statements like: “fighting
corruptions, transparency, etc…” The DEVIL is in the details.
We can all read and think. So, make your promises as clear, and as detailed as the noonday sun.
WE WAIT FOR ANSWERS…
Good points Hyden. What I’ve read on the Saturday Lopezes’ newspaper is more of a critique on the Gloria administration… everyone know about these inglorious basterds and their deeds already…
All these Noynoy advocates speak of are words of peace, hope, love and salvation with all the HIGHFALUTIN words that are arranged like a rhetorical sonnet of Shakespeare.
What do we have here. One good campaigner for “NoyPI” ako!
Is he the true messiah for our country, that will untwine this convoluted system of ours. One must truly present, and establish a good commonwealth to the Filipinos. To establish this, one must present a good platform. So that they can be scrutinize, by us Filipinos.
The complexity of our government systems, to some is very complicating. But to make it more complex, for some, will not comprehend your directive. Not alone to present us with your six years plan. All I ask, is to give us a page, not a whole Novel for us to read. Give us, a just and enduring government. We will give you our vote!
If the administration were founded on this basis, it seems to me that order would prevail among the people, in thought as well as in deed. It seems to me that such a government would have the most simple, easy to accept, economical, limited, nonoppressive, just, and enduring government imaginable whatever its political form might be.
Under such an administration, everyone would understand that he possessed all the privileges as well as all the responsibilities of his existence. No one would have any argument with government, provided that his person was respected, his labor was free, and the fruits of his labor were protected against all unjust attack. When successful, we would not have to thank the state for our success. And, conversely, when unsuccessful, we would no more think of blaming the state for our misfortune than would the farmers blame the state because of the natural causes. The state would be felt only by the invaluable blessings of safety provided by this concept of government.
It can be further stated that, thanks to the non-intervention of the state in private affairs, our wants and their satisfactions would develop themselves in a logical manner. We would not see poor families seeking literary instruction before they have bread. We would not see cities populated at the expense of rural districts, nor rural districts at the expense of cities. We would not see the great displacements of capital, labor, and population that are caused by legislative decisions.
The sources of our existence are made uncertain and precarious by these state-created displacements. And, furthermore, these acts burden the government with increased responsibilities.
Mario,
Very, very well stated.
Joe
joe,
“Took your advise and had a bowl of fruit loops,
excellent choice for sugar attack, i might say.“
Mario,
Ahahahaha,
Yes, now let me tell you of the benefits of marijuana . . . medical purposes, of course . . .
Joe
I’m not blind to the dangers and yet none of you can show me a better argument of what any platform should be about.
Everyone is asking for what is the bloody platform? Ladies and gentlemen, none of you have been posting, from your point of view, what needs to get done as opposed to what has been written down. Where are the problem areas? There are no suggestions… just waiting for criticism like vultures.
I’m pretty sure that inside the Aquino campaign have been debates on what should be what shouldn’t be. The stark reality is the document they presented must be a set of compromises. How can it not be given the wide range of people working for the Aquino campaign?
We can argue day in and day out the guy has no trackrecord. what the hell? You don’t need to tell me that because it has been argued since day one. Don’t tell me that it was this yellow army that failed post edsa and that more likely a lot of them profited from that.
We can get lost blaming each other what has gone before or we can spend it figuring out ways getting out of the damn hole Filipinos have dug themselves in.
Don’t you guys have more interesting to say out loud?
We all talk a great game. Whether it is Aquino Villar or whatnut, what constitues success for you anyway? that after six years poverty will be eradicated? that there will be no school kid to go hungry?
Who else is there anyway? The tired and cynical Villar? Sorry, his commercials give me the headache that he is in it for the money and not really to move things forward. Estrada? Teodoro’s smart, maybe if this country has a PM he’d make a good one, but no, not as president.
When you look at the board and the big picture, don’t you see the dangers of persistent corruption? don’t you see the dangers of inefficiency in how government works? don’t you bloody see the precarious situation of the country’s gdp and how the country can’t spend to maintain 6% gdp?
You guys are preaching to the choir.
Any critique of Noynoy is a cynic or a vulture?
You just don’t get it.
Cocoy… BOTANTE AKO. Hindi ako kandidato. I’m looking for a presidentiable na pwede kong iboto. Ang kailangan kong makita o marinig ay isang blueprint ng dapat gawin ni Noynoy. Isang kongkretong TO-DO or X-POINTS REFORM PROGRAMS. Hindi yang yada yada corruption… na puro bula… Bakit kaming naghahanap ng sagot sa tanong ang tantanungin mo at tatawagin mo pang vulture o cynic? Ako bilang BOTANTE ay may karapatan na pumili ng isang kandidato who will work for the “common good” where at the end of the dey… magabenefit din ba ako.
Walang nangangampanya kay Villar, Erap, Teodoro o kung sino mang presidentiable dito. At the moment hindi ko pa rin alam kung sino ang iboboto ko. How can you convince me that Noynoy will bring salvation to the country kung ganyan ang attitude mo? Ikaw mismo parang nagpuputok ang butsi pag merong tumutuligsa kay Noynoy?
Cocoy,
I was reading an article yesterday about the swarm of people going to Villar, many in power, most seeking more power and wealth. You could hear the greed in their quotes, wanting to get on the bandwagon so they can be “just like Manny”, rich as hell. Wonder who they will suck all the money from?
Joe
Jet, actually I do get it. Believe me, I do get it. You guys want the automatic doors and the ipod connectors to your car. I get it. You guys want to know that the engine is a V8 whatnut. You guys want to know that the car starts by pressing a button or if you still have to twist the key to go vroom.
I’m not asking you if you want fries to go with your burger.
I’m not asking you if you want a Core 2 Duo to go with your new laptop or 2gb of memory.
Is that enough mixed metaphors?
You don’t get my question.
What is it that YOU want changed?
Those guys aren’t smarter than you or me.
I’ve been waiting for commentors to say, Aquino’s plan is BULLSHIT, and this is what needs to get done. This should be what we need.
I’ve been waiting for comentors to say, you know what? Aquino’s plan is bullshit. Villar’s xxxx and his yyyyy and his aaa is much better. Here’s why: list. This is why I think he’s better.
The problem is, you guys stop at Aquino’s plan is bullshit.
Because what’s wrong in the Philippines is that WE think that it is only during elections that our vote matters. That it is the ONLY time we participate in the process. WE don’t tell our politicians what is it that we want to happen. WE don’t want to walk the streets when our government screws us. *I* hate that whole street thing. This is why i blog: because this is the opportunity to get our message across without being stupid.
And yet here I am asking you what is it that you are looking for and you guys don’t know what you want. What do you think is important.
You don’t want to hear motherhood statements. Fine. You’re making motherhood statements too. I’ve heard it all before. If the platform sucks, be heard WHY. don’t tell me you want details. Give the detail and maybe those guys might hear it.
News flash people this is Filipino Voices. This is web 2.0 and social networking. Get your opinion heard and when I say opinion, not your whining and maybe together we can get our message across not just to Aquino but to Villar and the rest of the bunch.
This comment thread makes me think that Philippine society is like design, like art like music. Build it and see if people like it because people don’t know shit what they want. People look for a trendsetter, they don’t want or can’t be the trendsetter. Someone has to tell them. oohhh the V12 engine is more powerful than the V8, because it is cooler. Red is the new black.
Is it any wonder why Arroyo in spite of everyone’s distrust in her is still in power? Arroyo does and does not care what people think.
Do YOU get were i’m coming from?
The issues are not answered. Dont circumvent the issues.
We have clear and concise issues. We want clear and detailed
answers. As clear as the noonday sun in summer. The answwers
must be understood by common voters like me!
BREAKING NEWS: Senator Richard Gordon has his filed candidacy for President. WOW, Flash Gordon with Metro Guwapo..
In troubled seas, RP sinking ship needs a captain like Dick with proven track record of ACHIEVEMENTS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE. I believe he’s the guy who could turn around things and prevent the country from becoming a FAILED STATE.
Tama na ang drama! Hindi puwede ang dilaw pero hilaw.
Ang problema jethernandez eh obvious naman na hindi mo gusto si Noynoy. It doesn’t look like you are here to learn more about the candidates to help you make the right decision. Puro ka tira dito, tira doon. Simple lang yan pare ko, kung ayaw mo sa kanya, huwag mo siyang iboto. Hindi mo na kailangang insultuhin ang kakayahan at galing ng isang tao. Si Cocoy at least may bayag para aminin kung sino ang susuportahan niya. Kayong lahat na batikos ng batikos at hanap ng hanap ng kung anu-ano, hindi niyo naman masabi kung sino ang sinusuportahan niyo. Bakit? Kasi takot kayo na yung ginagawa niyo na pag-tira sa opinyon ni Cocoy, gagawin din sa inyo. Cocoy is right, you cannot even present anything that is substantial and concrete. You are only good at criticizing. As far as i know, there are other candidates vying for the presidency – Manny Villar, Erap, Gibo, Bro. Eddie and Richard Gordon among others. Hala sige, pumili kayo sa mga pangalang nabanngit.
PS
Meron pa pala, yung mamang magaling tumilaok tatakbo din.
@ Mark
Ang hindi ko maintindihan Mark kung ano ang ibig mong sabihing may bayag? Are you assuming na lahat ng tumutuligsa kay Noynoy ay walang bayag? At ang mga taong di pa nag dedesisyon ay walang bayag, vulture at cynic. Kabobohan na ata yan Mark. If one is a critique, he’s a cynic. Why do I have to present something substantial? Or why does anyone here needs to present something substantial… BOTANTE AKO. Di ako kandidato. Ikaw ang talak ng talak. Sino ang dapat magpresent ng “something substantial”?
Marami namang obvious dito na kinukwestyon ang iba’t ibang aspeto ng kandidatura ni Noynoy mula sa pagkatao, ekspiryensya at plataporma.
Bakit Mark… kung tama man o mali ang palagay mo na AYAW KO TALAGA kay NOYNOY… di na ba dapat akong magtanong o magsabi kung ano ang ayaw ko kay Noynoy? E tumatalak ka rin naman… bok bok bok bok bok… hehehe…
Kapain mo yan… baka nawala na yang yagbols mo. Hehehehe…
Cocoy… I do respect your opinion. If its Nonoy whom you’ll vote for… vote for him. That’s your right. At the moment… I’m still undecided. Don’t make assumptions that those who are against Noynoy are cynics… vultures or something else. Don’t rethorically pass the ball on those who wants details on the VMGs of Noynoy.
What a hypocrite. You sir are a solid hater. You have nothing positive to contribute to any discussion. A self-absorbed, self-righteous SOB. Sayang, mukhang matalino ka pa naman.
You are undecided yet it seems you have made Noynoy bashing your mission in life. Sorry, i do not buy it.
Hindi ka lang hater, corny ka pa.
By the way, my balls are intact and are just where i want and need them to be. Perhaps yours are dangling over your eyes which has impaired your sense of sight and smell.
Touchy touchy. Sino ngayon ang hipokrito at pikon sa atin? Ang hindi maka NONOY hater at walang bayag. Wag mong daanin sa inis ang rason mo.
Kung ganyan ang lahat ng maka NOYNOY… paano kayo makakakumbinsi ng BOTO? Kung si Cocoy ay inis kay Gloria… bakit di mo ring tawaging HIPOKRITO at HATER. Ang problema mark dinadaan ninyo sa pagmumura at pag tatalak ng walang ka kwenta kwenta pag wala kayong ma isagot. Kawawa ka naman bata… Kung wala kang maisagot wag kang magsabi ng mga ganyan… iniinglis mo pa… ganun din yun… kabastusan.
Sorry, pero ikaw lang nakikita kong bastos dito. Hindi ako normally ganito sumagot but i figured a person like you deserves similar responses.
Pero gusto ko yung style mo ah….touchy touchy?
Bwaahahahaha!!!
jethernandez, Mark,
Us Filipinos have thick headed skull. It takes a giant boulder to fall on our head(s) for us to open to a new realm of our existence. What makes us better than Cocoy anyway, or are we. He does enlightenment us, brings us forth great perspective.
Hell, Cocoy does brings[me], us excellent Rebuttal. In this case and let me rephrase my quote:
“What makes us better than Cocoy, or are we.”
I should say and, state the fact:
“We are no better, because, we are all conceited and arrogant Filipinos.”
Or else we would not have any cause for such an Argument(s).
This is a question that is directed to all. Ever since Cory’s government all Presidents followed the policy prescriptions embodied in the Medium Term Development Plan crafted by the Breton Woods Institutions with the U.P. School of Economics and carried out by NEDA.
Has any Presidentiable candidate come out with his plans (Platforms are goals). Without them there is nothing. Plans are policy prescriptions.
Or will they simply follow the same MTDP like always?
Those policy prescriptions are responsible for bringing the country to where it is today. Just look at the rush of people who want to become political entrepreneurs. The almost complete capture of government by a handful from the private sector is at hand. We now have the specter of a Predator State before our very eyes.
The new president will face a horrendous fiscal position and the stark fact that the country is now in a debt prison. We will have to continue to borrow simply to feed our people. Very little is left for creating public capital and human capital.
Now we know that some parts of this country resemble Somalia for real.
Cocoy
Let us just be clear on our terms of reference. This post is about the so-called “Social Contract with the Filipino People”. This has been published in the Lopezes’ dyaryo… the Philippine Star. And I quote one of its passage “we have retreated into a dark world of self-absorption and cynicism. our collective despair has reached its lowest point.” the other blah blah blah and yada yada would be… “from a president who tolerates corruption”, “from a government that merely conjures economic growth statistics”, “from treating health as just another area of political patronage”… etc… etc… transformed to a “TO A PRESIDENT WHO IS THE NATION’S FIRST AND MOST DETERMINED FIGHTER OF CORRUPTION”… (WOW HEAVY!!!)
… HOW… COCOY…?
Again your last comment is just stated in rhetorical English but says nothing. Don’t pass the ball on “the vultures and the cynics.” I clearly see where you’re coming from the moment you refered to Noynoy’s so-called “Credo”. Bakit na naman ibinabalik mo ang tanong sa nagtatanong? Dyos ko po Cocoy… maganda lang tingnan ang isteytments mo dahil Ingles. Bakit Cocoy tinatanong mo sa akin ang detalye?
Ikaw ha… tricky… tricky… hehehe… Nung sinabi kong motherhood statement ang kay Noynoy… sasabihin mo rin motherhood statement ang sinasabi ko… tapos humihingi ka pa ng detalye sa akin. My goodness gracious Cocoy… abogado ka ba?
Maybe if you actually took time to read or listen to what Noynoy has to say, you wouldn’t look so dumb harping on issues that have long been discussed and explained.
Chong, ang tanda mo na, baluktot ka pa rin mag-isip.
May nangyari ba sa yo nung kabataan mo?
Hmmm… ganito pala ang mga maka NOYNOY. Hehehehe…. MABUHAY ANG MGA PRO-NOYNOY!!!! MERON SILANG BAYAG AT BREEDING!!!!
Lol! Just giving you a dose of your own self-righteous medicine kind sir. Let us not talk about breeding here. I believe that thing flew out the window the minute you started voicing your twisted opinion. You have a knack for double-standards. And for twisting arguments. How you can attack and question Cocoy and not even give your own solutions? An extremely negative chatterbox with again, nothing positive to contribute to any decent discourse. I can only wish you good luck. Sana ay may magandang maidudulot ang iyong mga paniniwala.
Gayahin kita ulit……..BABOOSH!!!
Naks… abogado ka ba ni Cocoy? Ngayon tinawag mo naman akong self-righteous. tsk tsk tsk… woooo… WTG Mark!!! Mabuhay ang maka Noynoy!!!
Mario….
Arrogance breeds arrogance… cynicism results to another form of cynicism. Mark may have viewed my remarks as hypocrisy or something else but that’s the way the forum goes. Sometimes messengers are killed or we argue on the form and not the substance. Words used like, hypocrisy, cynicism, arrogance, bayag, vultures… etc… guess where they’ve all come from? I don’t know anyone here from Adam… I don’t judge people as vultures or cynics. To start your argument in a WE AS FILIPINOS… is a sweeping statement. My opinion is about the substance. Rhetorics or rebuttals (as you would like to call it) from where Cocoy is coming from is not in question here.
Mark and I may have a few exchanges but its just a man thing. Dalawa lang kami ni Mark. Wag mong idamay ang buong Pilipinas.
Now going back to the TERMS OF REFERENCE of the whole post. The Credo is like your WE AS FILIPINOS thing. WE AS FILIPINOS… are being pictured as cynics. WE AS FILIPINOS ARE SELF ABSORBED… AND THE PHILIPPINES IS SO CORRUPT that is WHY WE NEED TO VOTE FOR NOYNOY as the first President as the most determined fighter of corruption. Tanong ko sa kanya… paano? HOW?
jethernandez,
Alam mo kasi, itong mga pinakamatataas, at mga pinuno natin. Ay puro ulol, walang utak. Hindi marunong mag lakad ng Bansa natin.
This is where we pundits alike need to combat this whole administration(s) and figure out for ourselves who’s right and who’s wrong. Then surge the gate like dogs.
Pano ba ang gobyerno natin, o kaya tayo na lang mga kababayan na mg bigay sa basis for stable government, law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even the thought of revolution, of insurrection, of the slightest uprising could arise against a government whose organized force was confined only to suppressing injustice.
Under such a regime, there would be the most prosperity and it would be the most equally distributed. As for the sufferings that are inseparable from humanity, no one would even think of accusing the government for them. This is true because, if the force of government were limited to suppressing injustice, then government would be as innocent of these sufferings as it is now innocent of changes in the temperature.
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.
But make the laws upon the principle of fraternity, proclaim that all good, and all bad, stem from the law; that the law is responsible for all individual misfortunes and all social inequalities, then the door is open to an endless succession of complaints, irritations, troubles, and revolutions. Tara na mga Filipinos and let’s Surge The Gate.
SALUD!!!! @mario
WTG!!! that is what you call substance…. That is being specific… You’ve moved away from the argument na ang konteksto ay LAHAT NG PILIPINO… Kasi magagalit yung barbero kong si Mang Manoy na pagkabaitbait.
Hindi lahat ng Pinoy ay cynic. Yung mga ilang namumuno lang. Hindi lahat ng Filipino ay vulture. At hindi lahat ng di nag a agree sa kandidato ay hater at hipokrito.
Sige… tuloy natin ‘to… ihahatid ko lang ang misis ko na isang mangagawang Pilipino na kasama kong kumakayod para palumunin ang pamilya namin…. TEKAMINIT.
@mario
Higher wages, access to credit facilities, equitable (not favorable) tariffs or an encouraging government system that induces job creation are indicators of economic growth and development. What we have are laws, rules, regulations or policies and general that are not effectively or properly implemented. Using the 80/20 paradigm of Wilfredo Pareto and applying this rule in socio-political analysis of this bannana republic means that twenty percent rules the country… in a micro perspective it means that one out of ten percent are leaders. Other literature or studies point out that the twenty percent controls eighty percent of the factors of production of land and capital. Twenty percent are the landed and the moneyed class… the oligarchs.
Point is that the statements of the so-called Credo is built on sweeping generalizations or fallacious logic that the whole 100 percent or the “WE”, first person plural “have retreated into a dark world of self-absorption and cynicism. our collective despair has reached its lowest point”. It’s like a Randy David’s sociological despair that blames everything on the any government administration and the Marcoses. The whole context is based on a negativism approach as if there is total darkness in the Philippines and lo and behold… we have a saviour. I don’t blame Noynoy for such a horrific marketing approach of that one page Credo published last Saturday. My opinion is that the person or group who’s created that kind of Credo should be removed from his campaign team. A platform should just be simple statements of policy directions… a general statement for each policy category and at least two or three specifics.
Going back to the 80-20 rule, you’re right in pointing out to those who controls the reign that steer the economy should be hung upside down… habang pinipitik ang ilong… for not doing their job well.
kurkeksyon : wan out of tin (10) persons (not pircint) hehehe…
Joe,
It’s unfortunate that my blog (critique) of Nicanor Perlas did not find space at FV.
You should have been better enlightened.
will be published soon.. backlogged a bit..