if you were in their shoes?
Faithful reader Abbygail asks a provocative question:
… if you will be tapped by the govt. to serve in teves’ shoes, what will you do to change the rut we’re in? help the people w/ your ideas. we cannot be blaming each other forever and just sit still. what will you do if given that chance to serve?
I personally do not think that an interactive forum like ours requires its participants to offer specific alternatives (in contrast, for example, to a newspaper editorial). It’s more than enough to express ourselves and discuss issues with others. But I do share Abbygail’s concern about moving forward (note, please, that I did not use that old plea to “move on” — euphemism for forgiving and forgetting).
If we were in a high official’s place, what, specifically, would we do? No need to limit ourselves to Finance Secretary Gary Teves; how about we choose one department (say, DND) or agency (say, Pagcor), and then offer our proposed (specific) solutions?
Should be interesting. But, please, keep it specific. As they say, God (or the devil) is in the details.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:44 am
kayana2
from kayana2
to all the bloggers’ readers…
oops my bad, great typo on my part.
on my last blog entry -”in re-what should i do if i”- the last para should read …i hope my diatribe does NOT bored or offended someone’s mettle.
salamat po,,,,,
kayana2
lasvegasnv..
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Sus, Naman. No need to do that after all no one perfect. I’ve call all kind of names just because I can’t write english very well but it don’t bother me. Why should I. Oh, Di ba?! Merry xmas!
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Based from statistics and from the lessons of history, the giants of corruption came from the giants of intellect. One of the best and most-loved presidents of the United States was not known for his intellect but as a second rate movie actor.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Rather than say what I would do if, I would instead say what would Lee Kwan Yew have done in the face of the political and economic crises besetting the country today.
Lee Kwan Yew would have radicalized Filipino society by running a rigid political system and a tightly controlled welfare state based on private enterprise First to go would be the obstructionist communist leftists and NPAs who today present themselves as so-called progressives. The communist obstructionists were the first to go when LKY took over as head of state of Singapore.
LKY would have encouraged foreign investment to the max and discouraged any form of political dissent. This means no military adverturism like theTrillanes capers under pain of immediate military execution. No political obstructionists and media excesses. There will be strict military discipline, appropriate behavior and proper lifestyle of public officials, high private and public education, and swift dispensation of justice on corrupt public officials. His governance would be considered repressive but in the end Lee would be lauded for overseeing the country’s outstanding economic growth that transformed it from a third world nation to a wealthy first world.
Isn’t Lee Kwan Yu getting all the praises for making Singapore what it is today? Don’t you wish the Philippines was like that too?
December 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Intellectual giant as president? Heheh, could Shakespeare be also master in governing a nation. Really. Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas to all!
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:53 pm
if you noticed, nobody took up the challenge. which is fortunate. teves has HUGE shoes.
and i doubt if abbygail was thinking of teves when she said the government only attracts low-life scums?