“i don’t agree. the basic proposition is this. say, i have a business idea for a product or service that is of great use in the philippines..a venture capitalist will put in money into it, provided he has majority shares. i am willing to go with it, but under philippine laws that’s not possible – so, i lose out, including the people who could have been hired. replicate that many times over – hundreds of thousands of times – that’s what we are losing out.”

Not true. A venture capitalist will value his return on investment more than the equity he holds in a certain business. Many venture capitalists do not need to own all of anything, they perfectly happy with a bite out of the apple. Businessmen invest in property development in China and Vietnam even though they are not allowed to own property there.

Better to look at inefficiencies like poor infrastructure, red tape, law and order, corruption etc. when you analyze why this country is not an investment paradise before you think about dismantling so-called protectionist constitutional protections.

lol.

actually, the left and the landlords agree in pursuing a protectionist line.

i don’t agree. the basic proposition is this. say, i have a business idea for a product or service that is of great use in the philippines..a venture capitalist will put in money into it, provided he has majority shares. i am willing to go with it, but under philippine laws that’s not possible – so, i lose out, including the people who could have been hired. replicate that many times over – hundreds of thousands of times – that’s what we are losing out.

the commies aim to abolish private property, i don’t agree. just because.

i don’t agree with armed struggle either. why blow up a bridge only to rebuild it later? why kill each other when we can have a rational dialog? there are win-win solutions that build prosperity uphold human rights and the rule of law – but only if we are willing to work for it.

ang likot mo! Ang issue ay si Quezon and father of Philippine Independence.

Your half-baked leftist ideas if eaten would lead yo stomach pain

… however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

. — Manuel Quezon, he was an optimist

when I hear Quezon, these words of Sionil Jose come to mind:

We are poor because our nationalism is inward looking.
Under its guise we protect inefficient industries and monopolies. We did not pursue agrarian reform like Japan and Taiwan. It is not so much the development of the rural sector, making it productive and a good market as well. Agrarian reform releases the energies of the landlords who, before the reform, merely waited for the harvest. They
become entrepreneurs, the harbingers of change. Our nationalist icons like Claro M. Recto and Lorenzo Tañada oppose agrarian reform, the single most important factor that would have altered the rural areas and lifted the peasant from poverty. Both of them were merely anti- American.

heaven is heaven .. colony or not..

moreover, you are a colony of your own landlord class, oblivious pa rin.

so you stop looking like an ignorant know it all basing opinions on incomplete quotations, the complete Quezon quote is:

“I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans. Because, however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.”

you dismiss the struggle for independence as wily, I expected more from you.