just keep walking...
the going will get better
if it gets rough..pause
............reverberate..
afterwards..move your feet again..
....forward..
look up, and follow the striking rays in the horizon
paint a sweet smile..be grateful..
keep walking..
if the striking rays are hiding in the dark horizon..
...once again, cast a sweet smile..
for behind the clouds, the sun is still shining!
blip..brain..
Sunday, March 13, 2011
an old blog..
Philippines is one of the largest archipelagoes in the world. It is consists of more than 7,107 islands (includes the low tide high tide) and has a land area of 30million hectares. More than 3/4s of the islands are unnamed. The major islands are Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Samar, Leyte, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindoro, Masbate and Bohol. These islands constitutes 93.5% of the total land area of the country.
Philippines is rich in natural resources, including forests products, fish, minerals, water, agricultural crops, energy resources and livestocks. This is why many of the foreign countries invaded Philippines; because of its abundancy of its natural resources and not to mention, the high intelligence, the mental capacity of its citizen. The Filipino population is one of the most highly educated in the developing world and indeed, supplies skilled manpower to other countries in East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. It has an estimated population of about 91,077,287 and has a very low employment rate of only 7.9% of its total population.
In short, Philippines is indeed a country where all the basic components of becoming or making it progressive, economically sound country is at hand. However, the corrupt practices of its government officials are crippling the economy no matter how much hardwork one ordinary plebeians would employ to be able to surpass a day to day existence.
The current political eventualities is one big actual picture of the massive and large scale corruption that is widely happening in the government. The treasure of the country is being distributed to the limited few in the form of corruption, therefore basic services dont reach the masses who are paying their taxes religiously in the hope and with the expectation that it will come back to them in the form of basic services.
Most of the government projects are in BOT arrangement, in which, after it is being done, the masses or the public utilizing such project bleed in paying dues. If a certain firm builds a road..they would normally set a certain date to be able to cover up all the expenses and gather the profit at the specified time. Therefore, to attain this, they would normally impose higher cost of usage to the consumers instead of the government paying such project from the taxes being paid by the people.
Where does the taxes go? The taxes goes in "fake" government projects specifically on the procurement section where a certain bidder has to mark up 100% of the total cost or higher to bribe those officials who will be approving the project. I myself have been a witnessed to such. That i have to marked up 150% from actual price to bribe each member of the approving committee. Wrong but its a way of a getting a project...wrong still that i tolerated it..my business side came on that instance, i gathered higher profit. Greed...
yeah, its greed that runs in the heart of the most of the government officials. That is why, when a person like Jun Lozada now who was a former government official but took the courage to cry foul about the massive corruption thats going on with this ZTE project, (a nationwide broadband project) made all the masses happy and treated him like a hero and truly posted hope in the heart of the masses over the current dismal state of the nation. I just wish more of people like him would come out in the open and really be reminded that they are elected into office to serve the masses. We the masses are their bosses and they as the government officials are our servants...with the President being the head of these servants. And the bosses are the ones with the final say on things, not the servant.
I dont wanna go back in old days where i would march in the street shouting for reforms..i am pretty sure i can employ more ways of expressing my dissapointments and the change i look for in the current government. Yet i believe, that no political change would ever be successful if the change dont start from its citizenry.
just a thought...
and yeah i dont deal with government projects now ..not only because of the super bribing that you have to do..but it would requires too much effort too of pleasing them in the form of gifts, dinner outside, and some favors...but hey..i am surely making use of themin the best way i could for the advancement of my personal and business side...it is their function anyway!
Philippines is rich in natural resources, including forests products, fish, minerals, water, agricultural crops, energy resources and livestocks. This is why many of the foreign countries invaded Philippines; because of its abundancy of its natural resources and not to mention, the high intelligence, the mental capacity of its citizen. The Filipino population is one of the most highly educated in the developing world and indeed, supplies skilled manpower to other countries in East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. It has an estimated population of about 91,077,287 and has a very low employment rate of only 7.9% of its total population.
In short, Philippines is indeed a country where all the basic components of becoming or making it progressive, economically sound country is at hand. However, the corrupt practices of its government officials are crippling the economy no matter how much hardwork one ordinary plebeians would employ to be able to surpass a day to day existence.
The current political eventualities is one big actual picture of the massive and large scale corruption that is widely happening in the government. The treasure of the country is being distributed to the limited few in the form of corruption, therefore basic services dont reach the masses who are paying their taxes religiously in the hope and with the expectation that it will come back to them in the form of basic services.
Most of the government projects are in BOT arrangement, in which, after it is being done, the masses or the public utilizing such project bleed in paying dues. If a certain firm builds a road..they would normally set a certain date to be able to cover up all the expenses and gather the profit at the specified time. Therefore, to attain this, they would normally impose higher cost of usage to the consumers instead of the government paying such project from the taxes being paid by the people.
Where does the taxes go? The taxes goes in "fake" government projects specifically on the procurement section where a certain bidder has to mark up 100% of the total cost or higher to bribe those officials who will be approving the project. I myself have been a witnessed to such. That i have to marked up 150% from actual price to bribe each member of the approving committee. Wrong but its a way of a getting a project...wrong still that i tolerated it..my business side came on that instance, i gathered higher profit. Greed...
yeah, its greed that runs in the heart of the most of the government officials. That is why, when a person like Jun Lozada now who was a former government official but took the courage to cry foul about the massive corruption thats going on with this ZTE project, (a nationwide broadband project) made all the masses happy and treated him like a hero and truly posted hope in the heart of the masses over the current dismal state of the nation. I just wish more of people like him would come out in the open and really be reminded that they are elected into office to serve the masses. We the masses are their bosses and they as the government officials are our servants...with the President being the head of these servants. And the bosses are the ones with the final say on things, not the servant.
I dont wanna go back in old days where i would march in the street shouting for reforms..i am pretty sure i can employ more ways of expressing my dissapointments and the change i look for in the current government. Yet i believe, that no political change would ever be successful if the change dont start from its citizenry.
just a thought...
and yeah i dont deal with government projects now ..not only because of the super bribing that you have to do..but it would requires too much effort too of pleasing them in the form of gifts, dinner outside, and some favors...but hey..i am surely making use of themin the best way i could for the advancement of my personal and business side...it is their function anyway!
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