Comments on: The Perfect Storm

By: Patricio Mangubat

Patricio Mangubat — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:35:02 +0000

Yes, Pochero. The combination of both human and natural calamities are beginning to take its toll on the Philippine superstructure.

By: PSImeon

PSImeon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:59:45 +0000

The excitement over the 2010 elections is in the air. People are looking forward to the political exercise and the money that will eventually flow, for the businessmen, PR agencies, TV and radio stations, printing presses, campaigners. Even the poor people.

This is RP’s version of representative democracy, even if its an imperfect strum.

By: Pochero

Pochero — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:22:48 +0000

Or it can all be triggered by a natural calamity. Nature’s own “perfect storm”.

By: leytenian

leytenian — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:10:22 +0000

“government will find it quite impossible even to resolve this rising social tensions caused by its ineptitude in resolving structural problems”

great blog

By: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose » Blog Archive » Form or substance

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:44:24 +0000

[...] Patricio Mangubat says a “perfect storm” (food and oil price increases; brewing conflict in Mindanao; skittish investors due to the Garcia gambit; and escalating grumbling in the armed forces) is brewing. My column for today, Eight is enough , proposes the President simply quit while she’s ahead. Of course she won’t -but it will be interesting to see if the combination of populist stunts and sending the administration senatorial slate on the stump can be maneuvered into providing the pretext for saying the public is clamoring for an extension of the incumbent’s term. To, say, 2020? [...]

By: [splice]

[splice] — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:40:56 +0000

P. S. (sorry for the double post)

We’re not entirely powerless yet when thrown in the midst of these “storms”, there’s that temptation to hide our tail between our legs and, worse comes to worst, flee from all of these.

By: [splice]

[splice] — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:32:02 +0000

@Patricio

Touche! That’s the irony I tried to imply in my previous comment.

By: Patricio Mangubat

Patricio Mangubat — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:05:37 +0000

No one is powerless splice. and probably, this is no revolution. we would probably see a series of social movements, hopefully, not violent ones.

By: [splice]

[splice] — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:32:39 +0000

It’s as if we’ll survive all these by just sitting our asses down. But what can one say? Some people are wont to tell that we can’t do anything. We’re powerless anyway, so let’s return to our caves and rot.

By: benign0

benign0 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:49:25 +0000

The Philippines seems destined for a slow painful decline and these are the five ingredients for it.

Nature and economics will do what mediocre Pinoy “revolutionaries” failed to do in the last several decades.