DTI TO EU, SHUN DRUG WAR REPORTS

The government is doing its best to justify its position in defending the drug war amid the impending termination of our EU preferences  on trade.

The record of drug killings is so frightening that the administration is now faced with a barraged of international criticisms and about to lose trade deals abroad.

Just recently, the president has created a team to go to the US and attract US investors to the Philippines affected by the situation of our competitiveness in the region caused by drug war.

There is no sense of ending drug war by the expense on the lives of our own people. It should be noted that people are human resources that can be tools for greater economy of the country. Instead of treating drug addicts in the marginalized sector of our society, they may have a better place for use for our growth being resources of labor and manpower to fuel our industries.

The situation of china is an example of substantial human resources, by the use of its billion of people, made them to accommodate and support every new factories, industries by the resources and availability of its labor. 

Europe is accepting migrants due to the cause of its low birth rates. They have no more people for their factories, and the anomaly of migrants is the underlying reason.

In the Philippine setting, we have to manage resources, be it in low and impoverished sector, in addiction, all of them can be manageable and profitable for the country.

It is improper to treat everyone as worthless, the incidence of addiction is surmountable.

The only problem is to find the real drug war, its source, not the people, users, addicts rendered as victims. 

We need trade, and we are losing EU preferences made by the errors of drug war.

DTI TO EU, SHUN DRUG WAR REPORTS, INQUIRER

Carpooling and vehicle reduction in EDSA

The proposal in reduction, car-pooling, and more number codings in the cities is defiant to the factual responsibilities of the government for public service. Growth is needed by this country and the private sector is doing its share, therefore proportionately, the government should respond to that growth by their innovative public service thru more interactive infrastructure projects in sustaining growth.

Instead, the counter response becomes negative and deductive, instead of being proactive, responsive and assistive to the dynamism of the people, the government becomes retardate in performing its job..

There's no place for negativity in growth, find productive solution, not hampering the business activities of people.

INQUIRER NEWS ABOUT CARPOOLING

All Made in Japan

Majority of cars running in the Philippines are all from Japan, and we know what it means when converted it to monetary value that had caused defeat to our economy over the years via trade and commerce.

Data no longer needed, but certainly, in half a century, categorically show the advantage of Japan over our economy as enormous. 

This becomes the reason why we should talk about the matter of industrializing our country and prevent other economies dictate our own.

The expense of our dollar reserves should be abated and this can be done by entering into the same industry that Japan has built over the years. In so doing, a counter industry would reduce importations of Japanese cars and redistribute the saved foreign exchange to other needed investments for the country.

90.3 percent investment Decline

The situation needs direct attention to abate the continued erosion of investments to the country and should be addressed properly by institutions like senate to find remedy and promote more the country as haven for business fighting the stiff competition offered by Vietnam at the moment.

A rewarding atmosphere must be built and furthering the interest of trade and commerce to spur growth by means of more exports.

Peso fall and Capital goods

Talking about our current performance on trade and exports  that would make a change in the condition of our economy for the progress and development needed, we should be very keen on the situations that would affect anything specially speaking about the dollar exchange rates.

The government continuously speaks  about the condition of the dollar rates going up these days, and simply  appease the people on the situation with their comments, interviews that any movement of it is nothing to be alarmed or worried about. But actually, it is always hard to explain or justify the killing of the peso by the dollar due its effect will never be good both ways we think of its effects, that  based on the performances of the peso in the last 12 months that it has not recovered categorically, yet, it even deteriorated without any indication of recovery at all. This is the alarm that they are hiding, our inability to recover is a fact base on history. Ever since we've started, from the start of our government, one dollar to  two pesos, and to Marcos when seven peso to a dollar.

The Capital Goods excuse:

When our authorities speak about the rise of the dollar, they explain it in an optimistic way about the mention of "Capital Goods". They reiterate that the trend in the imports that caused the rise of the dollar is due to the performance of imports citing rise in Capital Goods have good effects for the economy, and eventually will make a recovery for the peso. The subject of the imported capital goods has been chronic already, that it has nothing to do, or very slightly can it do something to revert the rate of the dollar into its former condition after awhile. If it is true that capital goods will in turn result to make the decrease of the dollar, the result was just negative, it did not affirm the condition but instead continued to hurt further the condition of the peso.

The reality about capital goods represents imported component for our export sectors, which these component requires dollar, and since it represents to about 60 to 80 percent of our products aimed for abroad, its effect to recover the peso cannot make any imprint and effect, practically it results to nothing the explanation of the capital goods.

CHINA IS JUST LAUGHING AT US

With the massive projects going on in China, there is no doubt that she is now taking the place as the most richest country in the world, maybe in just a short time. Money and wealth has been directly converted into gigantic infrastructure projects that even America cannot even equal the gargantuan mega projects being build in China.

Thus, China is just practically laughing at us, even to the point that President Duterte is trying to  befriend this giant in the hope for an exchange of loans and assistance  to fuel our economic programs locally. But we need to be cautioned because the situation is not merely, China needs us more that we need them.

The money about to trickle from China is not practically free, they will be repayable, and always an interest is attached to anything we have from it, and by this due, there are always danger, adding to more dangers we had with our current loan problems.

Why not seek and self-make our riches? We cannot make our economy grown by the expense of others, we'll have to self make it and dump the excuse that we cannot stand alone without them. Activate massive manufacturing in the country, and create production lines for our raw mining products before we export them, prohibit raw exportation. Job generation is ultimate in manufacturing, that thru factories we will become self-reliant of products coming from China, instead reverse the situation, that China, or the world will need us due by our own exports and products.

China is just laughing at us with the kind of  mentality and attitude we are showing internationally. The mega projects inside China is envious, they don't need us, and by this way, we should internalize to create wealth though industrializing.

FEDERALISM IN THE COUNTRY

Federalism is a topic that Filipinos barely understand. Though this proposal of President Duterte meant to promise that the country will prosper and will solve our woes indicate that it cannot be assured. Then, how, and why we need Federal style form of government?

President Rodrigo Duterte promised in his campaign of fulfilling Federal form of government during or before his term ends.

Among these promises is the federal form of government, a concept that most Filipinos don't understand.

The hard reality is that, many Filipinos don't know what Federalism is all about.

Although there are indications that many wanted a new form of government thinking that it is a means of solving the woes of the country, many still do not understand the technicalities about this new concept. Filipinos just wanted it in the idea that they want new, approving things without thinking. 

“They (public) really want a change and a systemic change because the people realize that they have been under a presidential system of government so they want to try something new,” Malaya said on ANC’s “Early Edition.”

He explained that a federal system of government will not solve Philippines' woes but should be seen as a path to finding solutions.

“Federalism is a means towards greater development in hoping that the said system will eradicate the chronic corruption and systems that plague poverty and stunted growth of the country.  It is not the solution to all of our problems.

If approved, seen  that will make Filipinos can have better access to basic services such as more schools and hospitals because of the “greater resources and political power, is the same as that with our present system that can have that power to create wider and extensive educational system in the country if only not corrupted by our elected leaders.

Under the PDP model, a dual executive setup will be applied, with the president as the head of the state, chief diplomat, and commander in chief of the military. He also has the powers to appoint members of the judiciary, Malaya said.

The prime minister will function as the head of the government, dealing with day-to-day affairs such as domestic and economic policy. He also has the function of appointing members of the Cabinet, according to Malaya.

Malaya said PDP is open to having an “optional” vice president on the condition that both president and vice president are elected from the same political party through tandem voting.

“If the people still choose that there will be a vice president and there will be an immediate replacement for the president in case something happens to the president, we are open to that,” he said.

The country’s legislature meanwhile will maintain a bicameral setup under the PDP proposal.

Malaya said under their proposal, the second chamber, or the Senate will act as a representative body of the regions with each region being accorded with around 3-7 senators.

“We also feel that we need the system to ensure that all regions in the country get senators,” he said.

The Senate, Malaya said, will maintain its traditional roles of appointing members to the Cabinet and approving treaties with other nations.

It will, however, have the added task of going through the national budget, and matters that affect the powers and finances of the regions.

The country’s national assembly will still serve as the principal legislative body of the country and would likely maintain a membership of around 300, Malaya said.

The membership will be divided between representatives of congressional districts and party-lists, Malaya said.

If implemented, Malaya estimates a 10-year transition for the country to fully adapt the federal system of government.

In the foregoing, it can be viewed that Federalism can do something as outlined by the source from the government, but in reality the contention that Federalism is the answer to our progress is the same that can be answered by the present system only when the system at the moment was not hijack by those already had seized the power and resources of the country into their hands.
Only genuine service to the people will ever make this country great and better regardless of what system is there in placed.