Last year, Karl Garcia stepped up to the plate and provided in full a Conrado de Quiros article to now-Filipino Voices wordsmith DJB, where CDQ wrote a riposte against angry readers reacted violently to his columns where he apparently asked “why our national ambition had narrowed down to wanting to become the ‘toilet bowl cleaners [...]
Milking The Pinoy OFW, and Cabbies, Too
September 3, 2008 By 12 Comments
You have to give it to the government of the day to crap out ‘creative’ ways of milking Filipinos of their hard-earned, value-eroded peso. And there’s no discriminarion mind you, and all the extractions all clothed with legality. Take the remittances of OFWs for instance. Do you know that now all the money sent back [...]
The Dark Side of Positive Thinking
July 18, 2008 By 14 Comments
For book readers out there, i don’t know if your experience is the same, but i remember when i was young, my own reading interests tended to go by phases, i.e. clustering around a particular subject matter for a specific period of time. First it was books on the Occult, then Bible Stories and eventually, [...]
A thought on BenignOism and FilipinoVoices telos
June 7, 2008 By 28 Comments
If we go back to the original version of “classical liberalism,” the phenomenon was really about the right of the individual to control his own work, his creation being considered as an extension of his personhood. Liberalism was therefore a rebellion against serfdom or slavery. Unfortunately, the emergence of this “libertarian” attitude has been co-opted [...]
OFWs as local investors.
June 4, 2008 By 60 Comments
The Senate recently passed on third reading Bill 1882, which aims to establish a “provident personal savings plan” to be called the Personal Equities and Retirement Account or PERA. The law, according to the Manila Times, aims to “establish the legal and regulatory framework for an alternative pension fund that will give tax breaks to [...]
Money talks louder than politics
May 12, 2008 By 10 Comments
Cocoy is once again spot on. The reason politics occupies the limelight that it does is that economic activity in Pinoy society is so atrophied and impotent as to not provide enough clout to overshadow politics in people’s psyches. Interesting too, is what he said here: “the most basic thing is that anyone with resources [...]
The Folly of Economic Dependence On Foreign Employment
April 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
Which does more damage to a child during his/her formative years, the lack of cash or the non-presence of one or even both parents because he/she or they are working overseas?
Every example of the *humblest* of Filipinos being able to extricate themselves from poverty by sheer hard work and discipline *within our islands* highlights the folly and destructiveness of our easy-way-out approach to national development by lionising OFWs as “heroes”.
Phychiatric test para sa OFW: sagot nga ba sa totoong isyu ng mga OFW?
Psychiatric test, ito ang panibagong requirement ng DFA para sa mga taong nagnanais maging domestic helper sa ibang bansa. “Domestic helpers should be assessed if they are able to respond to this type of stress” ito ang paliwanag ni Undersecretary Esteban Conejos ng Department of Foreign Affairs, ayon sa kanya dito masusukat ang kakayahan ng [...]