What will it save? Nothing really...

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/mb/20100728/tph-slex-users-to-enjoy-maintenance-gain-020e1c8.html

And they'd still increase 250% toll!!!

So Now Noynoy

Will he do his parents proud?

Will he do his country proud?

Is he worth dying for?

Running for Senator?

Disclaimer: Was sent to me. I'll forward it to as much people as I can.
Author: Unknown


GUSTO KONG MAGING SENADOR NG PILIPINAS

ANG SARAP MAGING SENADOR!
Miriam Defensor Santiago was featured in Correspondents last week.

Maganda rin naman ang naidudulot ng pagiging prangka ni Senador Miriam
Defensor-Santiago. Ayon kay Santiago , marami ang tumatakbong Senador
dahil sa laki ng budget na ibinibigay sa kanila kada buwan(kasama na siya)

Lumalabas na ang P35,000 suweldo nila kada buwan ay pakitang-tao lang sa
milyun-milyong budget ng bawat senador... Kada buwan ay may Fixed Monthly
Budget ang bawat Senador ng humigit-kumulang P2 Milyon.

Sa opisina pa lang nila ay humigit-kumulang P500,000 ang budget nila sa
Maintenance and Operating Expenses (Rental, Utilities, Supplies at Domestic
Travels) at P500,000 para sa Staff at Personal expenses. Kaya para makatipid
ang ibang Senador, kaunti lang ang staff na kinukuha nila. Nagtataka pa kayo
kung bakit mayroong mga Ghost Employee?

Bukod diyan, may P760,000 allowance pa sila kada buwan para naman sa Foreign
Travel.. At ang masakit pa nito, hindi na kailngan i-liquidate ang mga
resibo ng mga gastusin 'yan kundi Certification lang ang Requirement.

Heto pa, lahat sila ay Chairman ng mg Komite sa Senado. Ang Committee
Chairman ay tumatanggap din ng budget na sinlaki ng tinatanggap ng mga
Senador na humigit-kumulang P1 Milyon din! Hindi sila mawawalan ng Komite
dahil 24 lang ang ating mga Senador at 37 naman ang Committee sa Senado.
There's food for everybody 'ika nga! Lumalabas na doble ang kanilang
benepesiyo at kita kapag sila ay nabiyayaan ng Committee Chairmanship.

Sa P200 milyon na Budget para sa Pork Barrel ng mga Senador bawat taon,
awtomatikong may 10% na S.O.P. o kita ng Senador na P20 milyon. Ito ang
porsiyento na ibinibigay ng mga kontratista sa mga Senador na nagbibigay sa
kanila ng mga Infrastructure at Livelihood Project.

Bago matapos ang termino ng isang Senador, kumita na siya ng P100 milyon sa
Pork Barrel pa lang. Yung ibang Senador mas gahaman, hindi lang 10% kundi 20
- 30% ang komisyon hinihingi sa mga kontratista.

Pansinin niyo na lang ang pagbabago ng buhay ng ilan sa ating mga Senador
simula nang manungkulan sa puwesto. Kung dati ay simple lang ang kanilang
pamumuhay ngayon ay nakatira na sila sa mga eksklusibong subdivision, mara
ming bahay sa Pilipinas at abroad at mahigit lima ang sasakyan.

Ngayon nagtataka pa kayo kung bakit gumagastos ng daan-daang milyong piso
ang mga Senador sa kampanya para sa isang posisyon na P35,000 lang ang
suweldo kada buwan? Bawing-bawi pala ang gastos kapag naupo na!

ANG SARAP MAGING SENADOR! ! !

One of the reasons why the Philippines will never, ever get off the
ground...... ayon..... . kaya talagang mahirap ng umasenso ang bayan nating
Pilipinas - yung mismo nilang gobierno ninanakawan and kanilang kapuwa
Filipino at hindi pa iyan..... hindi pa sila nagbabayad ng buwis sa bansa -
kaya lahat ng kalyehon lubak-lubak at masyadong madumi at mababaho!!! Hindi
sila nahiya sa kanilang nakikita at makapal ang pagmumukha nila. Dapat sa
kanila pumunta lahat ng mahihirap. True Whistleblowers - this is what our
country needs.If there are no whistleblowers the country will never ever
prosper and will just sit in the sidelines watching with envy the prosperity
of the other southeast asian countries - look at Vietnam now, much more
progressive. ......while the rest of the Kayo po diyan nasa Middle East na
mga OFW, gumising na po tayo. Panahon na.

PLEASE FORWARD TO AS MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS AND LET THE WHOLE COUNTRY KNOW
THAT ELECTION IS MORE OF PUTTING AMBITIOUS PEOPLE IN POSITION WHO ARE GREEDY
IN POWER, WEALTH & PRESTIGE THAN OF PUBLIC SERVICE... ANG MASAKIT PA PERA NG
BAYAN PARIN GAGAMITIN SA ELEKSYON MALUKLOK LANG SILA SA PWESTO!!!

Money and Manipulation

Sent to me via E-mail.
Anonymous sender.



To All Filipino Overseas Workers (OFW'S):

The Financial Analyst of World Bank would like to inform each and everyone of you that the present currency exchange rate of US Dollar to Peso is actually $1 = 52 Pesos.
Your government is manipulating the exchange rate for some years now. It is very much improbable and impossible that the Philippine Peso is appreciating compare to Euro, British Pound, Rials, and any other foreign currency. Even your ASEAN neighboring countries are suffering from the Global Crisis. Singapore , a developed country is affected by depreciation of their currency what more of your country?

We admire you for your hard work but we also pity you for having such a very corrupt government that is taking advantage of your hard earned money..

The ARROYO ADMINISTRATION is blatantly milking each and every OFW's all over the world of billions of pesos for its own greedy, selfish ends. Investigations reveal that this milked money from OFWs will be spent to BRIBE not only PGMA's pet CROCODILES in CONGRESS but some in the SENATE as well for her to PERPETUATE IN POWER BEYOND 2010. The rest would be deposited to the family's SECRET ACCOUNT in Switzerland .

Another money-making scheme is the LOTTERY DRAWS. Filipinos should be aware that all LOTTO DRAWS are orchestrated, and big money goes to the two sons of the lady president. Recent example is the SUPER LOTTO 6/49 draw, where supposedly two individuals from Luzon won. Do you know WHO these individuals are? It's Mikey and Datu, who else? One might ask how could the draw be rigged when it is being televised in front of millions of viewers. The answer is simple. As you all know, all bet combinations are being entered into PCSO's main data base as it is on-line, therefore, it is easy to determine which combinations were NOT betted upon. If they want to raise big money, no winners will be declared until the JACKPOT reaches sky-high because they could dictate the outcome at will.

When it's "HARVEST TIME", viola, there would be "winner or winners" and the process repeats all over again. One might ask how this is being done. One insider told our investigators that actually the "DRAWN BALLS", six balls to be exact, are the only set which could fit into the transparent tube which sucks the balls up. All others are slightly bigger than the diameter of the tube which could not be distinguished by the viewers, therefore, there's no way they could be drawn! You Filipinos are being skinned alive, fried in your own fat and lard by your own government.. . Do you ever wonder why president-elect BARACK OBAMA, avoids your president like a stinking leper?

On Nicole and Smith

I think Nicole is a whore. Obviously she is.
Smith is a horny soldier. He should have kept his pants up. Who can be friends with someone he has consensual sex with? Not the culture of this country. There will forever be tension.
The price was not right between them so Nicole cried rape.

Don't need to be a rocket scientist. Wasn't it obvious.

If you were a decent girl, would you go out of your way to Olongapo just to be a "waitress?"

And I Sing to Myself...

True peace lies within...

Some people are content to live in mansions. Some people are content to just live.

Why the Philippines is Standing Still

A must-read... ..> >

Somebody E-mailed this to me and I would like to share it.

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F. Sionil Jose: Why the Philippines is Standing Still
> INQUIRER.net> First Posted 11:27am (Mla time) 07/15/2008> >

Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco asked the National Artist for> Literature Francisco Sionil Jose to share some of his observations of> the current scene. This is the paper Mr. Jose read on that occasion: What did South Korea look like after the Korean War in 1953? Battered, poor, but look at Korea now. In the Fifties, the traffic in Taipei was composed of bicycles and Army trucks, the streets flanked by tile-roofed low buildings. Jakarta was a giant village and Kuala Lumpur a small> village surrounded by jungle and rubber plantations.

Bangkok was crisscrossed with canals, the tallest structure was the Wat Arun, the Temple of the Sun, and it dominated the city's skyline. Rice fields all the way from Don Muang Airport - then a huddle of galvanized iron-roofed bodegas, to the Victory monument. Visit these cities today and weep - for they are more beautiful, cleaner and prosperous than Manila. In the Fifties and Sixties we were> the most envied country in Southeast Asia. Remember further that when Indonesia got its independence in 1949, it had only 114 university graduates compared to the hundreds of Ph.D.'s which were already in our universities. Why then were we left behind? The economic explanation is simple. We did not produce cheaper and better products. The basic question really is: why we did not modernize fast enough and thereby doomed our people to poverty. This is the harsh truth about us today. Just consider these: some 15 years ago a survey showed that half of all> grade school pupils dropped out after grade 5 because they had no money> to continue schooling. Thousands of young adults today are therefore> unable to find jobs. Our natural resources have been ravaged and they> are not renewable. Our tremendous population increase eats up all of our economic gains. There is hunger in this country now; our poorest eat> only once a day.> > But this physical poverty is really not as serious as the greater> > poverty that afflicts us and this is the poverty of the spirit. Why then> are we poor? More than ten years ago, James Fallows, editor of the Atlantic Monthly came to the Philippines and wrote about our damaged> culture which, he asserted, impeded our development.
> Many disagreed with him but I do find a great deal of truth in his> analysis. This is not to say that I blame our social and moral malaise> on colonialism alone. But we did> inherit from Spain a social system and an elite that, on purpose,> exploited the masses. Then, too, in the Iberian peninsula, to work with one's hands is frowned upon and we inherited that vice as well.> Colonialism by foreigners may no longer be what it was, but we are now> a colony of our own elite. We are poor because we are poor - this is not a tautology. The culture of poverty is self-perpetuating. We are poor because our people are lazy. I pass by a slum area every morning - dozens of adults do nothing but idle, gossip and drink. We do not save..> Look at the Japanese and how they save in spite of the fact that the> interest given them by their banks is so little. They work very hard too.> > We are great show-offs. Look at our women, how overdressed, over-coiffed they are, and Imelda epitomizes that extravagance. Look at> our men, their manicured nails, their personal jewelry, their diamond> rings. Yabang - that is what we are, and all that money expended on> status symbols, on yabang.
How much better if it were channeled into production! We are poor> because our nationalism is inward looking. Under its guise we protect> inefficient industries and monopolies.> > We did not pursue agrarian reform like Japan and Taiwan. It is not so> much the development of the rural sector, making it productive and a> good market as well. Agrarian reform releases the energies of the> landlords who, before the reform, merely waited for the harvest. They> become entrepreneurs, the harbingers of change. Our nationalist icons> like Claro M. Recto and Lorenzo Tañada opposed agrarian reform, the> single most important factor that would have altered the rural areas and> lifted the peasant from poverty. Both of them were merely> anti-American.> > And finally, we are poor because we have lost our ethical moorings. We> condone cronyism and corruption and we don't ostracize or punish the> crooks in our midst. Both cronyism and corruption are wasteful but we> allow their practice because our loyalty is to family or friend, not to> the larger good.> > We can tackle our poverty in two very distinct ways. The first choice:> a nationalist revolution, a continuation of the revolution in 1896. But> even before we can use violence to change inequities in our society, we> must first have a profound change in our way of thinking, in our> culture. My regret about EDSA is that change would have been possible> then with a minimum of bloodshed. In fact, a revolution may not be> bloody at all if something like EDSA would present itself again, or a> dictator unlike Marcos.> > The second is through education, perhaps a longer and more complex> process. The only problem is that it may take so long and by the time> conditions have changed, we may be back where we were, caught up with> this tremendous population explosion which the Catholic Church> exacerbates in its conformity with doctrinal purity.> > We are faced with a growing compulsion to violence, but even if the> communist won, they will rule as badly because they will be hostage to> the same obstructions in our culture, the barkada and the vaulting egos> that sundered the revolution in 1896, the Huk revolt in 1949-53.> > To repeat, neither education nor revolution can succeed if we do not> internalize new attitudes, new ways of thinking. Let us go back to> basics and remember those American slogans: A Ford in every garage. A chicken in every pot. Money is like fertilizer: to do any good it must be spread around.
Some Filipinos, taunted wherever they are, are ashamed to admit they are Filipinos. I have, myself, been embarrassed explain for instance why> Imelda, her children and the Marcos cronies are back, and in positions of power? Are there redeeming features in our country that we can be> proud of? Of course, lots of them.> > When people say for instance that our corruption will never be banished, just remember that Arsenio Lacson as mayor of Manila and Ramon> Magsaysay as President brought a clean government. We do not have the> classical arts that brought Hinduism and Buddhism to continental and archipelago Southeast Asia, but our artists have now ranged the world, showing what we have done with Western art forms, enriched without own ethnic traditions. Our professionals, not just our domestics, are all> over, showing how an accomplished people we are!> > Look at our history. We were the first in Asia to rise against Western colonialism, the first to establish a republic. Recall the Battle of Tirad Pass and glory in the heroism of Gregorio Del Pilar and the 48> Filipinos who died but stopped the Texas Rangers from capturing the President of that First Republic. Its equivalent in ancient history is> the Battle of Thermopylae where the Spartans and their king Leonidas died to a man, defending the pass against the invading Persians.
> > Rizal - what nation on earth has produced a man like him? At 35, he was a novelist, a poet, an anthropologist, a sculptor, a medical doctor, a teacher and martyr.
> > We are now 80 million and in another two decades we will pass the 100 million mark. Eighty million - that is a mass market in any language, a mass market that should absorb our increased production in goods and> services - a mass market which any entrepreneur can hope exploit, like> the proverbial oil for the lamps of China. Japan was only 70 million> when it had confidence enough and the wherewithal to challenge the United States and almost won. It is the same confidence that enabled Japan to flourish from the rubble of defeat in World War II.
> > I am not looking for a foreign power for us to challenge. But we have a> real and insidious enemy that we must vanquish, and this enemy is worse> than the intransigence of any foreign power. We are our own enemy. And> we must have the courage, the will, to change ourselves. > May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from the> other. Genesis

SONA: State of the Nation Address

State of No Advantage

What is the State of the Nation?

• Poverty
• Corruption
• Apathy
• Discontent

What was the most significant promise made?

• Php0.50 on Text messages

What was that?

Old Manila

Call to Change, Why we are Poor.

I got this from E-mail. Lots of People sent me this exact E-mail but I'm sharing it to the Pinoys out there who haven't seen it. It may open your eyes.

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Why Is The Philippines Poor?

THE DIFFERENCE
The difference between the poor countries and the rich ones is not the age of the country:This can be shown by countries like India & Egypt , that are more than 2000 years old, but are poor.
On the other hand, Canada , Australia & New Zealand , that 150 years ago were inexpressive, today are developed countries, and are rich.

The difference between poor & rich countries does not reside in the available natural resources. Japan has a limited territory, 80% mountainous, inadequate for agriculture & cattle raising, but it is the second world economy. The country is like an immense floating factory, importing raw materials from the whole world and exporting manufactured products. Another example is Switzerland, which does not plant cocoa but has the best chocolate in the world. In its little territory they raise animals and plant the soil during 4 months per year. Not enough, they produce dairy products of the best quality! It is a small country that transmits an image of security, order & labor, which made it the world's strongest, safest place. Executives from rich countries who communicate with their counterparts in poor countries show that there is no significant intellectual difference. Race or skin color are also not important: immigrants labeled lazy in their countries of origin are the productive power in rich European countries. What is the difference then? The difference is the attitude of the people, framed along the years by the education & the culture & flawed tradition.On analyzing the behavior of the people in rich & developed countries, we find that the great majority follow the following principles in their lives:

1. Ethics, as a basic principle.

2. Integrity.

3. Responsibility.

4. Respect to the laws & rules.

5. Respect to the rights of other citizens.

6. Work loving.

7. Strive for savings & investment.

8. Will of super action.

9. Punctuality.

10. and of course...Discipline

In poor countries, only a minority follow these basic principles in their daily life. The Philippines is not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us. In fact, we are supposedly rich in natural resources.We are poor because we lack the correct attitude. We lack the will to comply with and teach these functional principles of rich & developed societies.If you do not forward this message nothing will happen to you. Your pet will not die, you will not be fired, you will not have bad luck for seven years, and also, you will not get sick or go hungry.But those may happen because of your lack of discipline & laziness,
your love for intrigue and politics, your indifference to saving for the future, your stubborn attitude.

If you love your country, let this message circulate so that many Filipinos could reflect about this, & CHANGE, ACT!