“WOW! Again?”
The only thing I could muster to say after reading about the NBN fiasco. Seems like anything that Malacañang offers on the table, the opposition would grab it and throw it back together with a bomb attached to it… Don’t get me wrong, I am not pro-administration nor am I pro-opposition. I am just amused at reading about these things.
“I prefer a country run like hell by Filipinos to a country run like heaven by Americans. Because, however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.” — Manuel L. Quezon
A famous quote by MLQ… and we took it literally. It had been more than 100 years and the direction we’re going is backwards. “Amusing,” I said? Well, I just got used to it. It was very annoying at first, then you get frustrated, then you just get used to seeing these things.
Look, we have a bigger number of turncoats in the government than the time the Japanese occupied us. Yet no lives are threatened just to turn to the other side. Just their positions, may it be elected or appointed. Our nation is not founded on principles anymore. Gone are the days of Quezon, Roxas and Magsaysay. Seems like the “kabataan” of their time did not fulfill being the good “kinabukasan ng bayan” that they planned for. Or is it that the “kinabukasan” will just get darker and darker as time will pass?
The government doesn’t live on principles anymore. Pardon for Erap? C’mon, after painstakingly ousting him and spending millions on his trial, they’re going to give absolute pardon, and with his own conditions, just like that? We would be the laughingstock of the TV-watching, news-reading world. All this just to save face and soften the blow of the opposition against her. Then you should have just asked the Sandiganbayan to acquit him then. At least our judicial system wouldn’t suffer the embarrassment.
Then we have the opposition. An opposition mostly consisting of the same people that called for Erap’s ouster. And it seems that their only purpose is go against anything that the government has planned.
Being an engineer working in the electronic communications field, I agree that the NBN and CyberEducation projects would be a milestone in the improvement on the education system of our country and the improvement of communications and data transfer between Malacañang, its departments until the littlest of barangays. Yup, the deal is tattered with graft, so continue your investigations but let the project continue as well. Then nail down the people who profited financially from this deal.
Hope this mockery of a government we have right now will change soon before a government will just cease to exist. As MLQ has said. “…however bad a Filipino government might be, we can always change it.”
Quo vadis, my Philippines?
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September 29th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Being an ECE also, I cannot help but feel sympathetic to your piece. Time and again, they just don’t realize the importance of having a broadband network that would interconnect the whole of RP. I only lament the fact that they should have opted the RP telcos to bid for the deal and not the Chinese only.
Anyway, I’ll do my part for the betterment of the Philippines by doing my research as an engineer in the company that I have been employed. With a small salary and a bigger TAX taken from me (I wonder where the heck is it being spent?), I can only watch in the background as the economy is strengthening despite the political noise. We are all tired of the turmoil happening again and again. What say you, business leaders?
September 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
To: acelemen
Hi, acelemen! I hope you are not a silly man with your entry here. At the start of your entry you are condemning the opposition for their investigation of this NBN fiasco. At the latter part of your same entry you are saying the deal is tattered with graft, so ‘continue with your invewstigation’, and ‘nail down the people who profited financially’….blah, blah… I guess you are trying to say something, but what?
September 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
This information age and this generation had seen how governments around the world are unreliable. Governments can twist the truth, hide the truth, silence the sources, and whatever the governments wishes to do.
It is a great task to help mold the next generation of government officials to be sincere, honest, and most of all God-fearing. I believe in Alexander Lacson’s “12 Little Things…” will slowly revolutionize the Philippines and we will once again be envied by our neighbors.
The objective of the NBN Project is good, but the means in which other politicians were squabbling here & there, made the whole thing a fiasco.
Changing the government may seemed easy for MLQ. He may be right, assuming that everyone who is elected or appointed is a patriot, and not super selfish like what we see now in most officials, may it pro-administration, opposition, leftist, rightist. The Filipinos have no more choice now among these groups.
Our only hope are the “12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do to Help Our Country”. This is the only way to go and where we should all go.
September 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
You are nuts! Your Philippines, my Philippines, too.
September 29th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Poor Filipinos,
they seem to be condemned and doomed to poverty by venal politicians and illiterate voters, yet are helpless to do anything to top it.
you thought that a so-called “collegiala with breeding” would know better, yet there she is, as corrupt and scheming as the worst of them. she makes me puke!
sorry to see you suffer, but that is just what happens when a people choose not see the connection between action and results.
I say, just endure it, even the worst nightmares come to an end somehow.