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The way our govt handling our country, is hopeless. We are deeper in the hole since, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and hopeless. This country is run by the rich, that the majority poor are ignored and taken advantage. I say we need leadership that truly is run by the majority of the people fairly.
    Certainly the rich don't wanna change the system... but only together we can.. say your peice of mind!!

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i don want america to handle our great islands!

philippines for the pilipinos even if we live like in helll   -  manuel quezon

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never to american rule with their descrimination and superior race mentality. lets enjoy our God given freedom!!!! i'll fight to the death if they rule in our home islands!!!

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good and sincere governance coupled with true correct and quality education is the answer to our present woes! not american rule. i feel i'm selling my soul to satan in your proposal!!!! people!!!

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First of all, you're wrong.

As an American I find it rather obtrusive for you to refer to such generalizations. The United States is not a homogeneous nation of only one race; rather it is a heterogeneous nation. Composed of many races; from Native Meso-American, African-American, White-American, varying Asian-Americans, Latin-Americans as well as the rising Mixed-Race Americans.

For one to target only some Americans of racism is not only hypocritical but nihilistic. Everyone has a natural prejudice; even the Filipino has it. Only his is worse as Filipinos discriminate even their own people.

Depending on how dark their skin is, how flat their noses are, how small or wide their eyes are, how straight or curly their hair are etc. These are clear examples of provincial cases of innate prejudices. It's natural for any people.

However, the question in mind that is being asked is the political-aspect.



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To reinforce my post in addressing Buwad's statement:


It is also important to note that the United States is the only nation in the world to have initiated legal and litigations to reinforce and uphold the equality and egalitarianism of its citizenry in force and actually set precedent on the matter in the international spectrum; ranging from peaceful demonstrations by civil leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who with his supporters led precedent and actually impacted the Judiciary in the United States by ending the Jim Crow Laws of Racial Segregation in Schools, and Civil Areas. The United States has progressed and led the world in securing racial advantages, especially for races that are underprivileged by providing a mechanism that is called Affirmative Action; to ensure that enough percentages of African Americans, as well as Latin Americans and even some Asian Americans are given the chance to attend and take university spots as well as work positions. This mechanism was put in place to better the chances of living of said racial groups as they compete for work and lifestyle against the more numerous Caucasian-Americans (who make up 70+% of the population).

On a side mark, tho, I personally am against Affirmative Action as I believe that everyone should have equal footing; and not be given special privileges based on one's race. No one should be given a handicap label.

And again, here in the United States, the society is very sensitive to racial words as well as prejudicial actions, which if confirmed, will warrant the termination of one's position in work and even degrade one's personal and professional reputation. Here in the United States there is an abundance of trial lawyers who will take to court those who are guilty of racial discrimination; so there really is no big threat of racists here that much. It's one of those things people have but don't talk about.






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Oliver,

What you say is true. The corruption in the government of this country (Philippines) is rampant; stemming not only in the executive, legislative, judicial; but to the regional and even local level.

I've pondered the reasons why the Philippines didnt choose to accept territoriality with the United States in the past; but history shows us that it was the nationalism of the country during the early 20th century that ultimately played a role in securing of independence. Which, from their point of view, does make sense.

In their view, it was necessary to liberate the country from colonial control; one that has pragmatized the Archipelago since Hispanidad of the early 16th century to the 20th century.

Currently, the United States has no wish to integrate the Philippines into its control. America, at this moment, cannot afford to provide for an additional 90 million people. Additionally, there are forces within the American society that are against imperialism and further expanding American interests abroad. Annexing the Philippines would be a political as well as diplomatic nightmare for the United States. As America would be accused by the world for Imperialistic ambitions.

The United States is a champion and proponent of globalization; where there no longer is a need to take over a nation; as trade, commerce, and communication can be exchanged at a whim.

The Philippines and its people must rescue itself from the quagmire that it is in.

Cheers,

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never! never! i'l fight to the death like our forefathers did! no way!

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Buwad,

I'd like to know some reasons why not.

Interested lang ko to hear your point of view.

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Good point L1tech,

However the rise of any state revolves on the need of the given state to defeat an enemy or states, at that. America is not the one that set the precedent, on the contrary the United States follows natural law. As a bear overpowers and defeats competitor predators such as wolves and mountain lions for the given resources in his or her domain. The same as a lion must outcompete his competitors, the hyena, the jackal, the leopard, and other lions in order to protect and acquire resources for survival. What about the powers of the classical epoch such as the British Empire, the French Empire, the Spanish Empire? Did they not colonize continents and spread their seed to produce and attain resources for the mother state? The United States, in actuality, was a colony of the British Empire, set up by the British Empire in order to reduce the congestion of the English mainland as well as to proliferate British seed into the new world as to acquire not only tobacco, but cotton, timber, wheat, coal, fur, etc to be exported back to the mother state as well as to trade with other powers, thereby facilitaitng the growth of not only the mother state's economy, but the growth of the colony itself. Its based on the concept of survivalism; one must overpower his or her competitors and enemies in order to survive. One cannot blame the United States for His Manifest Destiny. He inherited his supremacist ideals and positive outlook not from himself, but from His colonizer. The United States, afterall, is a colony and its original colonists were decedents of the British Empire. That come from Anglo-Saxon stock. And we know that the British ruled the largest empire in the world, controlling over 1/4th of the world's land mass.

The United States, freed itself from British yolk in 1776, but didn't totally eradicate its British roots. And the American Psyche of Manifest Destiny comes from primordial British notion of Supremacy. The child inherits traits from the mother, so to say.

What about the Romans? Didn't they utilize settler colonialism (throughout Europe, Africa and Asia Minor), didn't they use military intervention to champion their own cause (Roman-Etruscan Wars, the Punic Wars, the Thracio-Roman Wars, Roman-Gaulic Wars, Roman-Germanic Wars, Roman-Hispanola Wars, Roman-Dacian Wars etc). Every power, in the history of man kind has initiated wars to champion its own cause for the benefit of its own people, L1Tech.

Every nation, every state, every republic, monarchy, empire etc whatever you  want to call their political system, will champion a cause that is beneficial to their own interests. Either you be Filipino, Chinese, French, American, Russian, Japanese, Mexican etc. No nation in this world wants to be dependent, no nation in this world wants to langour in desolate isolationism. That's the point I want to stress out.

Just as humans are innate born with the passion to succeed and outcompete their competitors; so too will be nation states, who are composed of millions of humans. Driven by the same instincts as the human that composes the nation state.

The United States is a proponent of globalization; money and wealth is what makes the United States keep on working. Its the definition of a pure capitalist state.

And for your information, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and many other OPEC nations own large stocks of American interests. So this goes back to the notion you pointed out of American 'blackmail and robberies' of the wealth of nations. Considering that the United States is gorging on their oil and totally dependent on the oil they produce; the said OPEC states are actually profitting from the United States, which is the world's largest consumer of oil and petroleum. Consumes over 1/4th of the world's oil production. Strategists and analysts would go so far as to champion the antithesis of your statement. That the OPEC nations actually have their thumb and control of the United States.

Who ever controls the oil and natural resources, will influence the United States, which is totally dependent on the said resources for its day-to-day operation.



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You talk of American interevention in the Middle East as something that was done by a whim. Absolutely wrong. It is the Middle East and OPEC nations that drive fuel prices throughout the world; which branches in varying politico-economico ramifications throughout the world. Their raising of oil prices could translate in riots in an African country, causing political crisis that can cause revolutions; their raising of oil prices can cause instability of a South East Asian country that is already struggling with rising rice prices as well as a rising population. Their raising of oil prices can harden the situation for American citizens who have been hit hard by the mortgage financial crisis in the 07-08 fiscal year. Their rising of oil prices can influence the debate of the need to move away from oil dependency; a debate that continues to go on in the 08 Election.

So as you see, L1tech, who actually influences global political dictum? Is it the United States or is it OPEC countries?

American intervention in the Middle East is only manifested as to secure the free flow of oil to the world; as the United States has already seen what happened when the Middle East refused to pump oil due to radical religious-political differences in the 1970s-causing the Oil Crisis that debilitated the entire Western Block as well as the struggling Free World. Even the USSR was hard hit during this time epoch.

The United States sends its carrier task groups to international waters in the Arabian Gulf as to prevent and protect oil tankers from piracy, as well as prevent hostile nations such as Iran from impeding international oil supply. Which if severed or hindered in any way, will have global repercussions. The United States, being the sole military super power and having the power to secure this free-flow of resource needs to keep the flow easy and constant because its interests throughout the world is magnanimous. It has interests (economic and military) in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. So, naturally, any trouble in a given region will elicit American response. As a revolution, or war will impede the free-flow of Globalization. Which benefits all of man kind, not just the United States.

Remember, prior to American presence in the Middle East, were the British, the Turkish, the French and even the Germans (during Rommel's African incursion to take the oil rich middle east). The United States merely stepped up to plate (colloquially speaking) as the British Empire's military and political sway fell.

So long as there are radical islamofascists in the region that threaten Israel and American Interests, the United States will remain in the region. Indefinitely.

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You know that during the late 19th century, the Philippines was considered 'Paris' of the East? The city of Manila under Spanish Administration was so highly modernized and westernization was so visible by Europeans who frequented the former Spanish Bastion. After Spain's relinquishing of the Islands to the United States after the Spanish-American War and subsequent brief Philippine-American War, the Philippines' growth was unprecedented.

By the early 20th century, large percentage of the population was fluent and literate in the English Language (decades earlier, most of the Filipinos were fluent and literate in Spanish; of course, given the 3 centuries it was part of the Spanish Empire).

However, in terms of economics, the Philippines' economy was superfluous. Second only to Japan during the early 20th century. We had rail cars, trains, large ports, a blossoming plantation economy, and a growing industrial economy; producing and exporting coal, timber, etc.

So many western writers and poets used to frequent Manila; as it was a romantic setting for them in the day. It was the 'Europe of Asia'.

The Philippines was decades ahead of most of its Asian neighbours such as China, Korea, Malaya, Siam, Vietnam etc who weren't well versed in the ways of the West as say the Philippines, who was and is the bastion of Christianity in Asia. Over 90% of Filipinos are Christian (a majority of whom are part of the Roman Catholic Faith; a European christian denomination).

Under the United States; the cost of living and way of life in the Philippines was higher than that of Hawaii at the time; even higher than Puerto Rico at the time.

Given our situation at the time; had the Philippines remained a territorial part of the United States; or even a protectorate, I am definitely sure that the Philippines would have been ahead of Japan, Korea, Singapore. Absolutely definite that we would be ahead of them.

Before these countries even knew how to speak or communicate with the West, the Filpinos were already being schooled in Europe! By the late 18th century, there were already Filipinos schooling in Spain, France. No Asian country can boast such education advancements. By the early 20th century; there were hundreds of Filipinos schooling and studying in the United States. No other asian country can boast it.

And even today; the Filipino-American is the 2nd largest Asian ethnicity in the United States; second only to the Chinese-Americans (given they have the numerical advantage due to the shear number of Chinese in the world) but still; it says alot.

The Philippines was poised for economic and political greatness. Given the deep relations the Archipelago has with the West and Europe.

And I believe we, as a people, can rise up. How we will do that, I don't know. But in my heart I know and I believe the Philippines can rise up.



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Interesting to read your point of view, Buwad.

Though I would like to have read more reasons for independence.

lol, I like your little phrase, "Hell no to American rule or you sound like a fool."

Creative, I give you that.


Any other reasons?

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I would like to settle a misunderstanding that you have, Buwad, perhaps it was lost in translation throughout my posts.

First, I provided historical reasons for development and the benefits. The United States will not nor has it any wish to rule over the Philippines.

The original poster merely wanted to see reasons for a dependency on the United States.

You need to understand the history, Buwad, in order to have a broader and more educated understanding on the given situation. Its called analytical understanding, as it is referred to in Medicine and History.

Secondly, I would really want to see the responses of men like Rizal had he been alive to see what has happened to the Philippines.

As for Aguinaldo, the man sold out to the Americans during the Philippine-American War. He pledged his allegiance to the United States for fear of death. Unlike Rizal, who chose death and spoke his words. I would not compare Rizal and Aguinaldo in the same pedestal. Rizal was a purist; an idealist. Aguinaldo, was a realist.


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I understand your point of view and I respect your point of view, Buwad, we're all entitled to our own opinions. However, you don't have to result in petty words and rhetoric that is quite frankly uncivil. Childish. No one is selling our souls to rock and roll.

It's called a difference in opinion. Ms. Dabinsi, being an educated woman, and a professional medical provider, deals with patients who have different points of views. However, respecting their views. It's just part of the decorum of the exchange of views, Buwad. And my views will not change in response to petty comments that have no bearing on the said subject.

It's called professionalism, and educated decorum.


I wish you would have provided a better defense of your position. It was rather minuscule in content. I was expecting something more. You leave me wanting.

Additionally, Buwad, it is rationalism and reasoning that prevents society from spiraling into unchecked nihilism and ectopic rhetoric. It is reasoning that has driven man away from the blind superstitions of the past. It is rationality and reason that has spearheaded man into proper discourse with one another; it is rationalism and reason that has declared what is wrong and what is right. It is rationalism and reason that has provided the bases of human understanding that great men such as Rizal, Washington, Lopez. Del Pilar, Jackson, Lincoln, Voltaire, Robespierre, etc stand on the shoulders on.

Know what you're talking about.



Absolutely,
Lorenzo


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i know what I'm talking about - never to american rule in our islands!
too much mistake on too much words. reasoning and rationalization is okay as long as it will not be abused. you know what i mean? amboy?

its a reality in northern ireland IRA shots the knee cap on their enemies here they put holes in your head!

but still even if you have an encyclopaedic volume of your wisdom and thoughts. it well never take away my boholano/pilipino pride that never to american rule! never!

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Thank you Oliver,

I owe much to the teachings of my professors and my 4 years experience in the collegiate Debate Club. Lincoln-Douglass Debates, were a particular hobby-favorite.

And likewise, yourself, sir.

I personally found your thread rather intellectually stimulating!

Keep it up, Oliver. Keep it up!


Yours,
Lorenzo

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There is a classical saying, Aesope's actually, that goes well with this subject matter.

The Hare may be fast, but the slow and steady turtle will win the race.

The meaning of this age-old saying is the stressing of the importance of strategic reasoning. When presented with a problem; you don't respond to immediately with haste and irrationality and fervor. No, the former leads to stupidity. Look at the American situation in Iraq, which was launched by Bush's inability to compromise with other world leaders and his insistence of "attack first, ask questions later" attitude.

Rather, when given a problem, you need to first research the history of the problem; actions made by past leaders as to know what policies and actions to use and not the ones that failed. It is the same in Medicine. When a physician is presented with a patient's clinical problem; say the patient has lymphatic edema, the physician cannot just immediately take the patient into the operating room and surgically remove the lymph; as it would lead to damage to either the thoracic duct or right thoracic duct.
Rather, an educated and well-informed physician will CONSULT with his peers and colleagues who have a better understanding of the problem and then from their views, determine a proper prognosis/diagnosis of the said problem.

It is the same in law, in political analysis, in finance and in the military.



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The pasture always looks greener on the other side of the fence. And it's always tempting to just break down the fence and let the next-door master lord it over us in exchange for the green.

The trouble is that when we finally get what we think we want, the green on the other side is very likely not as verdant as we thought.

I've lived in Japan for about two decades. This is a beautiful, orderly, well-disciplined country. But I am not inclined to invite them to fix the bedlam that Philippine society is and to replicate their tree-lined streets, impeccably polite manners and sensitivity of political leaders to opinion polls.

Don't get me wrong. I wish for our president to have even half the sensibility of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda or his predecessor who offered to bow out of office because of legislative deadlock and low poll ratings.

I wish for wayward government officials to answer for malfeasance of even P5,000 of public funds or for receiving gifts inappropriately, as they do in Japan.

I wish we could even have half the discipline and the unity for community endeavors that the Japanese have.

But I am not willing to forfeit and negate the history, the struggles for independence, the culture, the sentiment, the identity, the sense of a hometown to return to in exchange for a perceived better life under a foreign political order.

I have seen how the Philippines and even Bohol have made great economic strides despite the daily political fray. Poverty is still an eyesore--and I wish they could just train the Badjaos at the Tagbilaran Port in more self-dignifying livelihoods.
 
But I have seen legions of homeless in Japan (and I'm sure in the US, too) flung away from reach of this rich nation's social welfare. I am kept on edge by news of firefight in the Mindanao, but I am even more nervous when I am in huge crowds here in Tokyo where anyone can just snap and stab people randomly (another bloody incident here the other day)...

Sadly, the green we see from afar is not really as green from upclose. And between two imperfect worlds--or between two sides of the fence--I'll choose the one where my heart really is.



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That is very well said Benelynne

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Benne,
   Your point is well taken, and it is the heart that bridges true happiness and yes it doesn't have to be rational.
    But take a different look, for a time, if you are born Japanese, and your heart is in Japan, you would not want any other way.. but imagine if i say i can reprogram your heart to see the reality of lives.
I mean for someone like a Korean to see both worlds, do you really think he would choose PI over US. Definitely not, that is an unbias outlook..
   and that's what happen to me, I was 19 when i left,  and yes no other way but the filipino way.. I struggled for 15 years until i realize, ....yes i don't have to fight the US ways, i could learn to love their ways and tradition as well. Not to say, i betrayed PI the country I always loved.
   And guess what, I see the real green in US fence, the opportunity, the realities and fulfillment of our dreams, the rewards of hard work, the security of a fair country and Thank God... the peacefulness that lives within, knowing lawlessness is not prevalent.
     To tell you the truth, I do not emphatize with the homeless, or the unemployed  in the US, we have every every opportunity not to be one in this country.....they choose to... be one..
      True wealth is within, have you heard? if you are born into a poor unknown filipino family, you might as well throw your towels and give up, you have a very very little chance of making it. Let's face it....Your true wealth will never flourish in a dry dressert, where rain never comes...
         My forever love
     Bohol PI

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no it's not sour gripping mis dabinz, its a love for country and to cherish the won freedom from the blood of our heroes. im proud of it and would never surrender it to the americans.

a relative of my great great grandfather's guerilla group who fought for independence in jagna was massacred by the americans during the pilipino american war. they were sold to the americans by a fellow jagnaanon. what a shame. the massacre was immortalized by a brass marker from phil. historical society in bgy. lonoy so that future generations will not forget on their heroic deeds.
 
i firmly believe God will not abandon our country and we could have a better life in the islands soon. a country thru time and experience will grow for the better it's the trend and history or expereinced from other countries substantiate my belief.

mabuhay ang pilipinas!

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 they were sold to the americans by a fellow jagnaanon. what a shame. the massacre was immortalized by a brass...


Taym pa what's wrong with this statement? Buttom line-who really killed your forefather? is it the Amerikans or your fellow Jagnaon?

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a new bill is pending in congress that will allow americans and other foreigners to own corporations, lands and other properties in the philippines without much hassle unlike before. if that will be made into law, that could lead to the invasion of foriegn investors here and perhaps will also lead to new way of life for filipinos. hopefully, they will make rules still favorable to the filipino people.

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Buwad,

I will submit to the fact that you have a very beautiful nationalistic feeling. It is ideologically similar to the Filipinoismo of the past. I admire that raw patriotism. And I mean it.

Ang view lang nako, Buwad, is that so much more could have been given to my fellow Filipino brothers and sisters. I want my Filipino brothers and sisters to have the benefits of the life that I am living as a proud Filipino-American.

Dili lang for me or for the 2.5 million Fil-Ams here. But for All Filipinos!

It always pains me, my friend, to hear and read stories of Filipinos starving and dying. I just read an article posted here that over 10,000 Filipinos a year die of preventable conditions (malnutrition, infection etc). 10,000 deaths!

Sakit ahong CORAZON to hear and read stories like this because things like that is so easily prevented here in the United States. Sa akong view lang, my friend, is that why should my fellow Filipino countrymen be subjected to a difficult life when I and other Americans have a comfortable life. Dili pood fair.

Oliver's points are very credible and I totally sympathize for him.

The Philippines could have enjoyed all the fruits of the wealth of America, yet not be directly an American-administered state.

The Philippines could have, had it wished, been an American Protectorate.

By meaning of this, the Philippines would have retained its provinces, self autonomy, a military, a national government, yet would at the same time, would be given the rights of Americans (as in citizenship for all Filipinos) as well as the benifits of unbridled American Investments in the Philippines.


-Bran Lorenzo

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Can't entrust the Philippines to Gloria, so hand it over to George? Wait a minute.

With the imminent breakdown of the US financial system, following the fall of Lehman Brothers, and the teetering of such revered financial institutions as Merrill Lynch and AIG, I believe the heydey of US hegemony is over. It is mired in Iraq and Afghanistan--which is a culmination of a history of overarching geopolitical expansion and alliance-making that it can no longer sustain.

Granted, the Philippine government is corrupt and inept. But is a government that misallocates resources to finance foreign wars at the expense of its basic infrastructure (remember what they said about the Minneapolis Bridge collapse), or is so busy policing the Middle East that it is unable to cope with the surge in its own domestic crime and random violence, or is so preoccupied with pitching capitalism to Russia and China that it is caught off guard by the free-enterprise subprime debacle at home, really a better alternative? Come on.

Dong Lorenzo, I, too, mourn for the 10,000 children and adults dying from preventable diseases and hunger in the Philippines. To save these poor souls quickly, I think the Japanese government, with the highest life expectancy in the world and state-of-art medicine would do a much better job. After all, devoid of military power, it certainly seems more acceptable than the gung-ho US and geographically closer to home, to boot.

But I simply wonder how I could trust even the Japanese government to save 10,000 from poverty when it is so helpless in the face of a spiking suicide rate that exceeded 33,000 last year and is still rising...

Traveling more frequently now between here and Bohol, I simply can't help but be amazed that if I put a tag price to my joy and well-being, it costs infinitely more in yen than in peso.

Where I am, life is comfortable, too. But I never think of trading the freedom, sunshine and simple life back home with the pall of everyday life here where every yen of comfort is almost worth one's sanity.

This may not be the most rational argument for me to say "No, thanks" for making the Philippines an adjunct of some first-world country. But I can't quantify my joy when I hear Celine extol a whizz kid from the Philippines named Charice, or small-town Manny Pacquiao demolishing international boxing ring icons, or a Filipina CEO revitalizing Starbucks in Japan when the company is retreating everywhere else...

Leave the Philippines to the Filipinos, please. (Yeah, Belle, as if the US is willing to take us, anyway.) Cheers!





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benne,
   Every country has its own hiccups, and that's entirely a separate topic that we are talking about. You are full of knowledge on what's happening.. I say amen to you... but we are focusing the topic to

...which is better.. are filipinos better off =run by corrupt selfish rich filipino leaders- or by George as a whole( with its goods and bads). I say -your patriotism falls wayyy short ... and is partly responsible of all the misery and the death of the 10,000 underpriviledge poor, unheard, unrepresented and patriotic people like you. Lucky me, though I was just like you, never wanting to leave... but I thank God, he gave me parents that does not think like you....  I would have been dead by now... I take that to heart..
   Excuse my directiveness, no offense intended.

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See naa ra man diay na? nganong imong gi draw nga picture pwerteng mauta! hahaha Bitaw Buwad Please dont draw that picture again kay maka depress kaayo paminawon oi!

Tinuod na imong ingon nga sigi lang tung-its ang ma tawo instead mananom ug kamatis sa ilang nataran. Tingala jud ko nga sa atoa bisan sa mga baryo, naa japun mamalit ug mga kamatis, sibuyas ug uban pang lagutmon nga ako/kami  diri naa sa Merika way palit2x kay mangutlo ra ko sa akong garden sa likod? Shalan, na unsa na gud ni???

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fellows,
    It might not be that bad to you, since we all have access to computers and eat well everyday. I'm sorry to bring you the truth. In reality the poor in the states gets overweight of overeating, while our poor get malnourished and without survey no one knows how many die of starvation and diseases everyday.
    I'm not gonna paint the picture pretty for many,  I've lived in Bohol till I was 20, and no,,, we re not that poor. But even then, as a middle class, it was like comparing both extremes.
   
We'll, there's bliss in ignorance for those who are oblivious, Let those who can hear, hear, but lest not ignore our responsibility to our own people. For we are our brother's keeper..........

I ponder everyday, feeling the pain of those who never had, the hunger of the poor, the opportunity of the hard worker, the pain of the diseases that only the wealthy achieved, the craving of a mother's heart when she sees her helpless children, the hard work of a responsible father that can't never provide enough.....

and yet... we say it's better to die, than being run by americans!!! what a shame, that we are doing nothing.... and choosing to be numb to the pain of others...

Isn't it the mentality, that dooms our land!!
   

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i really admired the bravery of the filipinos and we are known to that. but we are always blinded by our ideologies which is also in turn the one bringing us down. we are known to be fighters, we fight on what we believe is right and on what we believe that's good for us. we are rich in history about revolutions, rebellions and other atrocities against foreign invaders. but how many of us think if our heroes had succeed in their quest for freedom? for me, they did not succeed. all of them are failures. do you know why? take for example the following:

datu lapu-lapu - he's known to be first filipino hero who have fought and repulse the spanish 1st attempt to get the island. but his victory was shortlived since the spaniards succeeded in taking over the island and named it filipinas which is now the modern philippines. they ruled the country for 300 years and in fact is one of the greatest influence of the filipino culture.

francisco dagohoy - is a bol-anon who according to history holds the distinction of leading the longest revolt against the spanish regime. from 1744 to 1829 or roughly 85 years. but it not deter and not even made the spaniards blink.

katipunan - is an underground group organized by other filipino hardliners against the spaniards. they have few succcess and more losses. almost all of the members were eventually captured and died.

there were so many revolts that happened in our country up to the american occupation and japanese occupations but it not even change the fate of country. it because of how we really handle ourselves. try to take a look at countries and places that are former colonies. they are now very rich, successful and blooming. take a look at hongkong, singapore among others.

our country will always be like this until the time of our children's children's children because we are corrupt. only a few people who are less corrupt. corruption is really in our blood and we can't change it. we might be able to minimize it but to control it, it's not going to work out. the best thing that we need to do is to teach our children to work for their own because no government will take care of their needs. they need to tell their children to teach it also their children and to their children's future children and so on. the only person who can save us is only us. not them, not the other people.

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