ONE way [to ease the plight of overseas Filipino workers] is to investigate the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) regarding the anomalies unearthed by the Commission on Audit (COA).
Prosecute POEA and OWWA employees involved in the corruption unearthed by COA. Refund to OFWs or start a Foundation for OFW Benefits with whatever money that can be recovered. Make OWWA membership voluntary instead of compulsory.
– Elmer Fabros, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia (via e-mail)
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April 18th, 2008 at 10:53 am
A typical name for all our government agencies is SSSSUAAAAPANG! Everyone could not deny that all agencies in our government has just one objective. Not to serve the people, but to bleed the people through tax, another tax, and some more tax.
In other developed countries like America, when their economy falls, the government reduces the burden of the people on their tax. With compassion, their government reduces the people’s tax in time of hardship. Their government gives tax rebate of a break. Their government gives tax shelter to bussiness to encourage them not to declare bankruptcy.
In our country, under PGMA, we already had a bad news that 90% of our population is already esperiencing hardship one way or another.
Inspite of these economic problem, our stupid executive and legislative branch of our government raise the budget from hundreds of billion, to a TRILLION AND TWO HUNDRED BILLION PESOS!
Where will they get all that big amount? Of course, part will be additional taxes, part from E-VAT, and majority will come from government borrowings. Ultimately, it will be the people who will feel the brunt of this haphazard, irresponsible, shameless, corrupt officials in the executive and legislatives.
There is no limit to their rapacity. These vultures has grow old as politicians, and their moral ascendancy has became so dull, that they can no longer feel their sole duty to serve their people. On the contrary, they think that the Filipino People is there to serve them, no matter what the consequence.
These politicians thinks, from the PGMA, down to the barangay level, has the right to absolute power to commit corruption and abuses. At the barangay level, we see these multicabs, an official government vehicles, being used on so many unofficial missions. Multiply the fuel they consume on one day, and you will be surprise. !0 million pesos or more. What a waste.
But, the waste of fuel does not ends in the Barangay level. This is peanuts, as the level in the government goes higher. Think how much fuel are being squandered, resold, or given away to other parties, the the military fuel depote, or designated refueling stations. 20 million?
The saying goes this way, as the budget gets bigger, corruptions, also gets bigger.
Our economy is in the state of crisis, and our government is the biggest local borrower thru treasury bonds and others, yet, stealing, cheating, missuse of public funds, the waste, the unofficial trips, the on official calls, costing Juan de la Cruz to shoulder billions and billions.
Our government is nothing but crazy, stupid, and ineffective.
It exist, primarily to create more back breaking taxes, loans, and what have you, for Juan dela Cruz, and his future generations to pay.
Stupid G O V E R N M E N T. STUPID POLITICIANS. STUPID CABINET MEMBERS.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Unlike the great Gandhi who was capable of organizing peaceful demonstration against oppressive taxation and widespread discrimination against Colonel Britain rule at the time, Dalai Lama despite his call for support of the Olympics has not been listened by the Tibetans and Proactivists. Therefore, be literate on your part not to call him as Champion of Peace. What did the French do at the time? You can answer this.
Also, for your knowledage, please read carefully what Gandhi had done, and what Dalai Lama is doing and talking to allow yourself understand what the difference is. You must do this for your part.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
An agency, a symble of all government agencies, a general attitude of all government agency. Suapang!
First, the unreasonable fees. Just come to think of it, the OFW are our living heroes. They are the ones that weather out our economic blights. “matagal na sanang bumagsak ang economy ng Pinas, kung wala mga OFW.”
YET, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PAY A HEAVY GOVERNMENT FEES.
WHEN THEY GET STRANTED IN STRANGE LAND LIKE SAUDI ARABIA, all you expect the government does is blah, blah, blah, blah. Reason on this, and another reason on that.
Meanwhile, the stranded OFW, of thoes who escape their employers for what ever reason, like abuses, over work and underpaid, hazardous jobs, and non-payments of overtime, withholding of salary, all, of which are no fault of the OFW, and what do they get? Be stranded for another few months, while the government agencies are scratching their balls!
Either out of imagination, out of resourcefulness, out of wit, or out of qualification, other than being a blabber mouth and a lap-dog of PGMA, OUR TOP CABINET MINISTERS ARE BUT CLOWNS.
Pity to the OFW who gets in trouble in other country. They have bet their whole earthly wealth, and some even borrows on unerous loans, just to free themselves from the shackles of poverty, and suddenly they get in to trouble, a problem beyond their control.
Does our government cares for them? Out of pity and compassion, no! Out of public approval thru news and publications, yes!
It is only for self serving. Cosmetic! Thousands more OFW are introuble outside, stranded, starving, and died in those strange land, and had never been noticed by our government consulates.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Lee Kwan Yew Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
What The Philippines needs to do is eliminate OFW’s all together. No one leaves the country, no foreigners enter the country. The country is sealed off and not allowed to join the rest of the world until all problems are solved. It begins with the individual. From the government to the beggars on the street, an internal change must occur. The right values must replace the current Filipino values of shallowness, superficiality, fatalism and procrastination. All foreigner worship must disappear. Rediscover your own culture and history. Keep your language pure. Love each other. Set in place sound economic policy. Above all, seek Almighty God, because your destiny is in His hands.
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LKY,
The way you want it is the day the Philippines becomes isolated from the rest of the world. Nothing comes in, nothing goes out. Think of the millions of people denied to go in and out of the country, many to find work. Think of the people being shut out from the rest of the world, their families abroad and vice versa. The business that could not come in and the business denied to go out. What you envision is a sure-fire invitation for dictatorship but which even a dictator cannot sustain the country all by himself without outside help. Without help from outside source and the people’s freedom curtailed who can stop an ambitious leader from becoming a dictator? I don’t think you understand what you are suggesting. Even the real Lee Kwan Yew could not do what you suggest. LKW was a benevolent authoritarian short of being a dictator by removing and banning all communists who were the
obstacles to economic progress, jailed all corrupt businessmen and politicians alike, stopped unproductive political opposition and instilled strict discipline to the people of Singapore to the point that gum chewing and long hair were prohibited. But behind all this, LKW allowed free full access of foreign investments that brought economic growth to that city state. This plus the national discipline Singaporeans adhere to is what has made that tiny state very successful. This is the legacy of LKY. Think about it.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:56 am
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Lee Kwan Yew Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
What The Philippines needs to do is eliminate OFW’s all together. No one leaves the country, no foreigners enter the country. The country is sealed off and not allowed to join the rest of the world until all problems are solved. It begins with the individual. From the government to the beggars on the street, an internal change must occur. The right values must replace the current Filipino values of shallowness, superficiality, fatalism and procrastination. All foreigner worship must disappear. Rediscover your own culture and history. Keep your language pure. Love each other. Set in place sound economic policy. Above all, seek Almighty God, because your destiny is in His hands.
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Before you seal the country can you kick the fake president gloria arroyo first because she is the problem. after that you can seal the philippines so she won’t be able to come back.