Philippines: The road towards Advancement and Prosperity

Goal: To regain its reputation, for advancement and prosperity.

            Recently, Philippines got an international attention from the “Tanim Bala” or “Planting bullet” from the NAIA's staffs and personnel based on reports. The events exacerbate the emotions of anger, hatred, and shame on most of every Filipinos around the world. Filipinos are even more so fragmented than before, Miriam Defensor Santiago said that every Filipino should have one goal in mind- to have one vision.The problem in the Philippines government already exists and become complexes such as graft and corruption, drugs, poverty, and low education are a few to mention. As such, it is yet difficult to solve by every President who will be seated to six-years term. A strong Presidential candidate should have a master plan or a grand plan on how he wants to run the nation and strong enough to bring back its reputation. In the next five years, Philippines government should help regain its reputation, to lead for advancement and be of service to experience prosperity for every Filipino.

             

Problem identification:

Regain its reputation: Poverty problems, Safety and Security, Equality, Justice, Freedom, and Unity

            There are numerous problems in the Philippines to discuss with, and one of these are the poverty and hunger. Poverty means that each family is fortunate enough to eat at least less than three (3) times a day. But first and foremost, solving a problem has to have a flow of plan, a road map and action plan to follow and laid out in advance in order to attain its transparency and credibility. The government should have a mind-solution initiatives such as how the government solves it, its target date or time frame, and anticipation of the hidden and unexpected problems. For poverty and hunger issues, the government must have a clear plan on how to tackle the problems including the gatherings of all the latest and correct data from government-related-agencies. There should have a guidelines on how to solve the poverty in the Philippines. Identification, recognition and action on how much each family should earn money to survive in a day-to-day expenses. Including the time frame to achieve results to overcome and fight poverty and hunger. On table 1 below, it shows the income, expenditure and savings on each region of the Philippines in 2009 and 2012. In 2012, Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has the least annual income in 2012 and 2009. People of the Philippines especially on the ARMM area will be difficult to convey to freely follow peace and order if the basic needs are yet impossible to obtain. Next to it is also difficult to unite these people when they are deprive of basic rights and needs. It is most challenging to persuade these people when their basic needs are not met. According to Maslow hierarchy of needs, safety and other factors of life hardly appreciated when the basic needs are not fulfilled first, these basic needs are food, shelter, and clothing. The government should have a precise solution to tackle poverty and eradicate hunger. Once this problem solves, the government can now proceed to the next level of solving the problem such as safety and security then so on and so forth by prioritizing. 

            Safety and security, on the other hand, is another factor why the Philippines have difficulty achieving unity, peace and order, and prosperity. As table 1 below show that ARMM has the least annual income and this might be due to continuous conflict in the area. Also, under this category of safety and security from the hierarchy needs of Maslow model (Table III below), fall the anti-drug trafficking, anti-graft and corruptions, emergency facilities, evacuation centers, education for the future, and safety water and so on and so forth. These are a few of the many safety and security issues to give attention to. In water safety issue, table II below, shows that the region III has the most safety water among the regions in the Philippines. The table is just to show that it is one of the safety measurement issues in the Philippines aside from many other safety problems. Importantly, when lack of safety and security the issues of equality, justice, freedom and unity are impossible to achieve. Additionally, prosperity is also far from possible to experience by Filipinos. Safety and security enter twine together to prosperity, it is challenging enough to invite investors to the country when the country itself is a lack of safety and security; thus, difficult to attain prosperity.  

            Equality in the Philippines is of many forms such as the oppression of rights and unbalance justice system practiced between the rich and the poor. The rich has many privileges than the poor, and these create fragmentation and resentment on the less priviledge, which then lead to injustices and disunity of the nation. The Philippines government should provide equal access to education and employment. Many of the Lumads or Indigenous People (IP) are taken their rights to education by burning the schools in their place. The struggled conflict affects many people as well as the IP in the provinces. In an article of Caroline O. Arguillas states, “[t]he military denied responsibility for the burning [of schools].” The conflict forces are one of many evidence of disunity in the Philippines. The convoluted issues are hard to trace down, where it becomes a cycle in the government system. Disunity, injustice, and inequality rooted from graft and corruption. Likewise, graft and corruption rooted from injustice and inequality, lack of trust, ego, and dishonesty among workers, and personal interest.

Theorized Hypothesis:

            After Ferdinand E. Marcos regime and the EDSA Revolution, most of the politicians had been convicted of graft and corruption. The hypothesized reason for this is that: firstly the Philippines has a naturally abundant resource, secondly most of them hated or against Marcos, thirdly they have no access to the “Marcos Gold.” They mostly knew that the “Marcos Gold” is not a tell tale. Thus, in order to get their fair share, these politicians took money in a form of graft and corruption.

Reforming:

The active role of the Government

            The active role of the government is utmost necessary to ensure and secure its people. The government should have a well-planned and well-researched solution to resolve problems. All government agencies must identify, supply, and formulate or create prioritization system that must be followed and obey through proper and truthful documentation. There should be transparency within each members to create trust environment. Also, hiring and appointing government staffs and personnel should be a highly competent, which means that they are highly educated with values of integrity, advocacy, honor, and credibility. The government Politicians and workers should have a heart of a true leader such as patriotism, by which the nation and its people are of high priority than their personal interests. The government workers and Politicians should have honesty, factual, and have a sense of sincerity of duty. Each government sectors and agencies should be highly competitive, straightforward and transparent. Reforming the government is the best way to resolve tangled complex situations and to start anew. The reforming government should based on solid ground foundation of ethics and moral values.

The Proposal:
            To start a new and a fresh government system will not be easy, but it is possible. All the appointees and hired staffs and personnel will undergo the standardize civil service exam. These newly hired people will swear an oath in front of the Supreme Court lawyers. There should be a recognize documentation stating that the higher personnel will not accept any “Quid pro quo” system. Also, there should be standardized moral values and ethics exams to select each candidate meticulously. The standardize exams will identify each competent candidate. The moral values should focus on honesty, integrity, professionalism, dutifulness, leadership, patriotism, and nationalism. The core values and ethics should be exercise until the term finished. By this system, the government will evolve into a strong and great nation.

The Backbone of a strong and great Nation:
           The government should provide financial assistance to all Scholars, Inventors, Armies, Police, Teachers and professionals because they are the real backbone of a strong and great nation. On the other hand, the children and the youth must be train, discipline, and educate as early as possible because indeed they are the future hope that will soon lead the nation. Philippines is a rich nation and it needs a strong and honest leader to properly cultivate its richness so that people can benefit equally.

            When all of these are set up straight, Philippines will start to regain its reputation that once sabotage. The Philippines is once again becomes a healthy, vibrant, buoyant nation. Each family members of legal age are reliable and independent enough to stand on their own after having finished their studies and find their dream job. Each family will feel and experience a new lifestyle - a better one. 

(Note: this advice is merely a common sense including sixth (6th) sense)

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@4:00mins-4:39mins. Miriam’s speech of unity as one goal
https://youtu.be/uQ-AzzoNL88

Lumad school blames military for burning teachers’ cottage 
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 16 2015 3:12 pm
Read more http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2015/11/16/lumad-school-blames-military-for-burning-teachers-cottage/
http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2015/11/16/lumad-school-blames-military-for-burning-teachers-cottage/


How We Fare: MDG target of families access to sanitary toilet facility and access to safe water supply
Reference Number: 2015-030
Release Date: Monday, April 20, 2015
https://psa.gov.ph/content/how-we-fare-mdg-target-families-access-sanitary-toilet-facility-and-access-safe-water-supply


PSA Renews Clearance of the 2015 Family Income and Expenditure Survey
Reference Number: PP1-04
Release Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2015
https://psa.gov.ph/content/psa-renews-clearance-2015-family-income-and-expenditure-survey
LISAGRACE S. BERSALES, Ph.D.National Statistician and Civil Registrar General

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Table I

Table II

Table III

Maslow Hierarchy of Needs

Equality, Justice, and Freedom

Most of my friends observed from me that I am engaged in political conversation now a day. I, myself, been also surprised by my reactions on these political topics. Maybe because there was latent injustice buried deep on my nerves. I am becoming more passionate to engage myself to seek the truth, and I will continue doing this matter. I remember when I first came here in the U.S, I brought with me my negative way of thinking of how I looked at the situation. I even almost lost my self-esteem, confidence, and courage, and what’s left behind is my faith. I was scared to make a move because I might not be accepted such as having an employment. That is my biggest insecurity back then. I even scared to go back to school, because I did not utilize it to the fullest.

I recognized slowly through comparison of my life then and now that each of us has innate rights, the rights to make our life better if our government have given us the true equality, justice, and freedom.
When a correct system of the government conducted, the life of the people itself can and will experience and exercise their full potentials and use it to make a better future for themselves and to its country. A country with a good reputation.
I believe that most people are desperate in their lives because of lack of equality, justice, and freedom; that is where it started.
Bottom Line: Fight for your rights for true EQUALITY, JUSTICE and FREEDOM.

The Seven (7) Guide

            Who to vote in the coming election 2016? Who, at least among all the candidates, will provide common good? The answer is a personal choice.

Recently, some people might be in confusion on who to vote after the four (4) days of the last filing of a certificate of candidacy on October 16, 2015, when one of the qualified candidates turned down the decision to run for Presidency- Hon. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City, but he says, "noting is final, I leave lit to God." People left hanging on whom to vote for their next choice for the coming election. There are still a few months away before the 2016 election, and much could happen within the time-frame.

           

            It is a well known to us –Filipinos- the “bayaran system” or paying off money system just to cast votes for the candidate. The “bayaran” system is one of the many reasons why the Filipinos are still struggling in poverty that is opposite or compared to other countries such as the U.S, Canada, and Japan. Most of the Filipinos are unable to access good education due to poverty that is why they are tempted easily with this  “bayaran system” just to solve their short term needs without thinking the long term effect of this deed.

            To help ease the confusion, and inform the Filipinos, the seven (7) guides are formulated to help the Filipino voters choose and decide the best candidates in the coming election 2016 in the Philippines for a better future.

1.     Gumawa ng isang masusing pananaliksik at “background check para sa bawat kandidato na iboboto. (Make a thorough research and a background check for every candidates of choice.)

2.      Tandaan na hindi lamang ang kanilang mga personal na mga nagawa kundi isali rin ang kanilang mga pampublikong pagtupad, base sa katibayan at maghanap para sa katotohanan. (Take notes not only their personal achievements, but also their public achievemnts.
 Consider the evidence-based and look for facts.)

3.     Kilalanin ang kanilang mga interes. Ito ba ay para sa personal na pakinabang o para sa kabutihan ng lahat. (Identify and recognize their interest, is it for personal gain or for common good?)

4.     Ang kandidato ba ay may isang kasaysayan o ulat ng katiwalian? (Does the candidate have a history or record of kcorruption?)

5.      Gumawa ng isang malayang pagpapasya. (Make an independent decision.)

6.     Maging responsible, isiping mabuti ang kinalabasan ng iyong mga pagpipilian. (Be responsible; think the outcome of your choices.)

7.     Maingat na piliin ang iyong mga kandidato para sa kinabukasan ng iyong henerasyun. Ang iyong bansa ay kailangan ng iyong kritical na boto. Tandaan, ang iyong boto ay mahalaga. (Carefully select your candidates for the future of your generation. Your country needs your critical vote. Remember your vote is valuable.)

  

     I observe recently that the Filipino people from home and abroad eager and thirsty of change. I want to keep silent, but I could not keep quiet where, in fact I, myself, also eager for the change. I experienced employment misfortune to my country. Since I found my opportunity abroad and fortunate enough to enjoy my rights such as having a job, I look back at my country Philippines with heartaches and pains imagining the people experience at the pit of misfortune, injustice, and poverty. I never been too involve with the Politics, not until lately because it does affects our lives directly and indirectly. I believe that we are connected by invisible link;  what they do, the Politicians, and what our decisions of choosing the candidates will somehow affect our future and our generations. On the other hand, some are hoping, that there are Politicians can overhaul or at least change the obsolete government system so that these people can escape from the dragging mud. I deeply wanted a change for the Philippines. How can the Philippines system of government improves? And when could this be happening? Instead of bashing around to another candidates from their shortcomings, let us be a well informed citizens by carefully eliminating those unfit for the service.

      At the end of the day, I decided not to override my decision based on emotion for we all have our differing beliefs. Emotion can sometimes cloud our logical thinking, so it is better off to think clearly based on logic and critical thinking analysis. Consider each candidates and think the future outcome of their leadership style. Again, please read carefully the guide above to have the best candidate that could help us out in poverty.

            May the seven (7) guides in choosing the candidates would be helpful for all of us.

God bless Philippines!