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 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
exceptional intellectual giant….
re LKY…when i wrote that the LKY that we need should have the best interests of his country first, not his own…i was thinking of the phil. scenario wherein personal interests rules, and not the nation’s.
i admire LKY’s son too, who is doing great things for singapore, like his dad.
December 24th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Let us forget for awhile our hatred and prejudices and wish each other a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
December 24th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Delrey,
Lee Kwan Yew took advice from our very own Marcos and applied it to Singapore. Lee Kwan Yew succeeded but Marcos didn’t. The reason, differences in culture and the way Marcos coddled corrupt allies, his wife and relatives even though they are corrupt brought in catastrophic results to our nation and degradation of moral standards vis a vis corruption.
Take a look at today, Gloria is trying to do the same thing unfortunately, she’s even worse than Marcos in coddling corrupt allies, doing cover-ups, and abuses in government. Her growing Pinoy Big Briber style only worsens what should have been thought to be an already worst situation. No, the Philippines need a different mold, something that is based more in honesty, transparency, good governance, and taking in the cooperation of honest reliable NGOs that could help us get back to the track of good governance.
The WILLING cooperation of the Filipino people is the key to true progress, not repression, not trust in demagogues in civilian and military posts, and certainly not cooperating with influential, abusive, ruthless and corrupt allies, relatives and family members.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Bert
First thing first. If I am ask to serve in a morally bankrupt admin I will never accept. And that is because nothing beats the feel of some cleanliness inside myself. But if I do not mind the dirt, and there are so much chance to improve my economy, and I want so much to move forward, so that when power is in my grasp I could safely say ‘Back Off’ to any one standing in the way of my quest to improve my economy some more, then, with all my heart including my stomach, I will eagerly accept with two open arms any position, any juicy position. So, if I am Bunye, I will say that the Pulse Asia survey result is wrong because I was not ask; if I am Ermita I will not let my minnions attend the senate hearing; if I am Teves I will sell more dollars to strengthen the peso so the economy will look improve to simple-minded folks, etc. All of these to make my president look good to simple-minded folks for the betterment of my country, but mainly for my betterment, especially so if my president stayed there forever.
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Holy smoke!
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
delrey’s piece re LKY is worth my read…i agree that a LKY-style of governance may perhaps be the answer to what is ailing this country. BUT, the LKY that we would like to have should have the best interests of his nation and people first, and not his own(family, relatives)…
another topic, re intellectual giant….
i think we’ve had enough of just having an intellectual giant(sole criteria),i.e. marcos, and maybe gma since she has a ph.d. in economics daw….
dapat din yung may pagmamahal sa bayan, hindi ang pansariling interes …
and of course he/she should be intellectually and morally capable of good governance…