I really admire this Senator eversince when I’m still there in the Philippines. He’s one of the best senator, writer.

May God bless his family.

God bless the Philippines!!!!!

Blas Ople Overseas Program degraded the Filpino by being the maid of the world and the prostitute of the world. How many millions of families were broken by this concept of verseas employment?

Kung sakali man itong sinabi sa amin dito sa Riyadh ni Madame President ay totoo.Malaking salamat sa kanya.Sana itong pondo na ito ay hindi para sa 2010 election gaya ng nangyari sa Ferilizer’s Scam.Iong 50 thousands is too small to start a decent business this day. Puhunan lang ito sa malamig at banana cue, kaya bale wala din ito.Anyway it’s better than nothing.Saka without seminar or training for business this will be failure for us OFW.What we need is a comprehensive kumikitang kabuhayan and it must be sustainable ‘di ningas -kugon lamang.After 33 years working overseas gusto ko na ring tumigil dyan sa atin pero natatakot ako sa magiging buhay ko riyan.

Whether or not Blas Ople had sincere intentions for his fellow Filipinos is speculative.

However, as an economist, he played a major part in destroying the Philippine economy. Primarily he destroyed the incentives for a productive economy.

A discussion paper written by a UP economist is worth reading to get a clearer picture of what Blas Ople did to doom the Philippines to poverty.

http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/respub/dp/pdf/DP2004-02.pdf

The fact that he helped OFWs should not be praised. In fact we should expect nothing less because his very policies destroyed local jobs that made becoming an OFW necessary.

Again, as an economist, Blas Ople was at best in over his head when it came to the economic issues he dealt with. And in all seriousness he was a fool for not being able to correct his own mistakes and not heed the advice of economists who spent their lives understanding the very issues he was grappling with. Unfortunately, he is dead and we’re the ones living with his mistakes. I hope we will one day realize he isn’t the hero we think him to be.

P.S. to anyone who wants to discredit economists using GMA as an example, know that just because you become a lawyer doesn’t mean you’ll obey the law. GMA is just using her knowledge of economics for her own selfish ends just as a lawyer could with their knowledge of the law.

Why isn’t Ople’s long and loyal stint with Marcos included in his epitaph? Was he ashamed of his association with Marcos? I remember he was in Washington, DC during the EDSA revolution trying to gather support for the fading regime. Ople, like many opportunists, started out as a socialist firebrand and predictably ended an ultra-rightist solely for the propagation of Blas Ople’s earthly interests.

I totally resent his daughter’s canonization of Ople as the “Father of OFWs”. As a longtime contract worker in the mideast, I understand we were deployed only because we helped prop a corrupt dictatorship that was thoroughly anti-people.

In the interregnum, I suggest we call Ople, the “Goebbels” of the Marcos era.

Blas Ople is one of the most respectable Filipino that the country misses. He served his country with all his heart without asking anything for returen.

Yes certainly Blas Ople should always be remembered. For me Senator Ople foremost is a nationalist and a statesman in every sense of the word

I miss the genius of Ka Blas and every Sunday I always was excited of what he was going to say in his column in the Panorama.

“Ka Blas” is the best president we never had and I believe every word of that.

This is ridiculuous proposition. Why do I have to spend my tax money for some OFWs? Rather than cash assistance, which I think is more of a dole-out, why no open an OFW loan assistance instead via government banks. The government banks can tie-up with OWWA to automatically deduct the amortizations similar to SSS-Employer load amortization pay-out relationship.

Also, I think government should really discourage excessive reliance with government dole-outs. It just enforces indolence. What is happening now, enforces what the spaniards said about filipinos: that we are indolent. Government needs to motivate people to work, find work, enterprise work. I am really sick and tired of labor rallys. That time can be better spent looking for work instead of being infront of the camera. All that really does is to make journalist have more reporting material.

livelihood program is an excellent idea but the problem is in the implementation. we need people who are honest , really honest, and dedicated to man this project. Is there anybody who can man this project that is principled enough to stand on the ideals of your program.
Good Luck

Did Susan Ople really say give “Direct cash assistance” ?????

To a group of Filipinos that earn a lot of money but pay zero Philippine income tax?

Let me just say I feel for Susan Ople in trying to do good for the OFWs who would like to come home for good, even by sticking her neck out for phlegmatics who would be “born again colonialists” and view these modern heroes with disdain, and call them “indolent”.

It is also my view that her father, at the very end, wanted to bring them all home, a saving grace, shall we say?

former senator blas ople will always be remembered specially the ofws.He has a good heart to the people,,i missed reading his columns..we never forget ka blas you are always in our heart.