who belongs in the poverty column?
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Aquino-Binay: No news
Congress says it’s final. It’s Aquino and Binay. I visited some of the blogs that I visit frequently, I checked the statuses of some of my FB friends, and everyone in cyberspace is silent. Mar Roxas is mulling an electoral protest. He should, it’s a very close fight. He shouldn’t because it will take 7 years to resolve the issue.
Proxy war
Gloria appointed 250 people to juicy positions in what is now called midnight madness. One of which was the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Delfin Bangit. He almost called it quits but changed his mind. Noynoy Aquino said “He and I both understand our respective positions.” It’s a job well done by Gloria. It’s called “proxy war”.
His and her
Our gross international reserves (GIR) expanded to a record $47.65 billion in May, driven by loan proceeds from the French government as well as central bank’s gold holdings, income from investments abroad and foreign exchange operations. Let me repeat: driven by loan proceeds. One more time, say it with an attitude: LOAN! What I did not find in the news is if there is an Aquino Transition Team. How are they doing? Are they doing an inventory of what Gloria is leaving and/or turning over to Noynoy? How much domestic and foreign loans this administration accumulated up to the wee hours of her stolen presidency? His and her.
Juan Tamad
Around 500 poor families in a town in Leyte will receive their first cash payments of from P500 to P1,400 as beneficiaries of a government pro-poor program dubbed Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). They used Proxy Means Test, a scientific method used to determine whether a household was “non-poor”, “survival poor” or “food poor.”
I don’t understand the premise of giving away cold, hard cash to poor people. Is the desire to alleviate poverty? Attacking poverty starts with controlling corruption and the willingness to attack it. Let’s pray Noynoy sticks to his gun. Next, build economic infrastructures to help and make it easier for people to do business. Then, help them to become entrepreneurs. Help them stand on their own. While giving cash to poor people is commendable in small ways, it also brings into question: Is the desire to temporarily support them for food? These are temporary fixes, short-term infusions, and it will not solve poverty. Why? We have no idea how they will use the money. Next thing you know, they’re back for your next P500 give-away.
But let’s take it a step further? Just how do you define poverty? Who belongs in this column? Because as far as I am concerned, I am sooooo poverty at the moment.
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
Good!
So sorry about Mar Roxas, it’s terrible that some people in the Noynoy camp abandoned him. I agree that giving taxpayers’ money to the poor is a temporary fix at best, it would be better to give them jobs/training.
yeah me too. sumama ang loob ko when all of a sudden, nag-turn around ang ibang kasama ko. i have nothing against them and/or Binay. if he is the VP, he is the VP. disappointed lang ako dahil… wag na lang. hmpt!
lets just support whoever will win!!
definitely!
i really hope that corruption will end with the next administration.. sarap sapakin ni gloria, umutang pa?.. paano makaka-recover ang next admin kung puro pagbabayad lang sa utang ang patutunguhan ng pera?.. haay..
i doubt if there is something that will happen in 6 years. nalungkot ako when i read an entry sa Ellen Tordesillas. here’s the link:
http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=11465
Ang kumisyon na mag-imbestiga kay Arroyo
Mukhang may problema pala para isapag-katuparan ang pangako ng nanalong kandidato sa pagka-presidente na si Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III tungkol sa kumisyon na kanyang itatatag para imbestigahan si Gloria Arroyo.
hopefully the new administration can do something for the poor and fulfill the long list of promises
that’s all that we can do. in the meantime, sagad sagaran ang mga kurap. and all of them can just get away with blatant corruption.
i-firing squad na lang kaya ang mga kurakot sa gobyerno natin ano? punong puno na yata ang bilibid para sa kanila. o kaya lahat sila ikulong sa malacanyang kasi andun na sila e. I would like to think that Pres. Ninoy’s decision not to stay in Malacanang is, after all, sensible. Honestly, I did not like Ninoy to be the pres during the campaign. I soon realized that he is the man!!!
madali kc maniniwala ang pinoy sa mga mababangong salita..
that is why it is very important to vote based on track record..yung hindi lang salita, meron talagang nagagawa.
poverty din ako
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agree ako na dapat ipursige ni Mar ang hinain niyang protesta. Dapat tayong makiisa kay Mar sa laban niyang ito. Sya ang nararapat na maging bise presidente ng ating bansa!