Friday, September 09, 2005
Leave the Politicians Alone
The following is a reader's comments on my last issue:
changnaga said...
Maybe we should just leave politics to the politicians. If anybody want to make political changes, he should enter the political arena and once inside, meaning, once winning the political position, he can make the changes he want and is capable of making.
What the Philippines particularly Catanduanes, need right now, is economic upliftment. We can help by investing our hard-earned money in our province. Better yet, we should convince our friends and associates and would-be foreign investors to visit and see the Philippines and discover for themselves the business opportunities abounding in the country.
More talk, more mistake. Less talk, less mistake.
9:17 AM
Let me mention issues that I fully agree with. What our province needs right now is economic upliftment! Agreed. Convince our foreign friends to invest in the province. Amen to that too.
How do we convince foreign investors to invest in our country? Definitely not by showing them how mismanaged and corrupt our government is. Investors are avoiding us like a plague and this is what our 'bright boys' in the Senate need to fix.
Invest our hard-earned money in the country? Maybe! Just like most foreign investors, we are hesitant in forking in hard earned bucks to the Philippines. There are myriad of reasons why. What with the 'revolutionary tax' levied on successful businesses? Our shaky power supply on the islands. The huge and corrupt bureaucracy. Businessmen and their families being kidnapped for ransom?
The 'potential' for business opportunities abound but business opportunities themselves are not there because we have not learned how to create them. Why do you think investors flock to most Asian countries except our's? The answer is simple. We have not created the business environment that will attract investors.
I am sorry but I have to disagree with the idea of leaving the politicians alone. If they were performing well and looking after our country like they should, sure why not. At the rate they are performing we need to let them know that they are not doing their job. If they are corrupt, they should be placed on the spotlight.
If everyone who wishes for some changes in our government runs for office we will end up with a few million congressmen and senators. As citizens we can make changes by being proactive and concerned. We should quit electing and re-electing bozos who are not helping make things better just because he or she gave us a few goodies during elections or he or she is a 'distant relative' etc etc.
Talking more need not result in more mistakes. Talking less conveys less. And if talking less means saying nothing about all the bs that out politicians are doing, then the comment must have come from a sore politician's follower.
At any rate, I thank the fellow who sent the comments. We can agree to disagree on some of these issues. That is what forums are all about.
Joe Joson
changnaga said...
Maybe we should just leave politics to the politicians. If anybody want to make political changes, he should enter the political arena and once inside, meaning, once winning the political position, he can make the changes he want and is capable of making.
What the Philippines particularly Catanduanes, need right now, is economic upliftment. We can help by investing our hard-earned money in our province. Better yet, we should convince our friends and associates and would-be foreign investors to visit and see the Philippines and discover for themselves the business opportunities abounding in the country.
More talk, more mistake. Less talk, less mistake.
9:17 AM
Let me mention issues that I fully agree with. What our province needs right now is economic upliftment! Agreed. Convince our foreign friends to invest in the province. Amen to that too.
How do we convince foreign investors to invest in our country? Definitely not by showing them how mismanaged and corrupt our government is. Investors are avoiding us like a plague and this is what our 'bright boys' in the Senate need to fix.
Invest our hard-earned money in the country? Maybe! Just like most foreign investors, we are hesitant in forking in hard earned bucks to the Philippines. There are myriad of reasons why. What with the 'revolutionary tax' levied on successful businesses? Our shaky power supply on the islands. The huge and corrupt bureaucracy. Businessmen and their families being kidnapped for ransom?
The 'potential' for business opportunities abound but business opportunities themselves are not there because we have not learned how to create them. Why do you think investors flock to most Asian countries except our's? The answer is simple. We have not created the business environment that will attract investors.
I am sorry but I have to disagree with the idea of leaving the politicians alone. If they were performing well and looking after our country like they should, sure why not. At the rate they are performing we need to let them know that they are not doing their job. If they are corrupt, they should be placed on the spotlight.
If everyone who wishes for some changes in our government runs for office we will end up with a few million congressmen and senators. As citizens we can make changes by being proactive and concerned. We should quit electing and re-electing bozos who are not helping make things better just because he or she gave us a few goodies during elections or he or she is a 'distant relative' etc etc.
Talking more need not result in more mistakes. Talking less conveys less. And if talking less means saying nothing about all the bs that out politicians are doing, then the comment must have come from a sore politician's follower.
At any rate, I thank the fellow who sent the comments. We can agree to disagree on some of these issues. That is what forums are all about.
Joe Joson
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