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JoeAmWhat We Have Here Is a Failure to Legislate
It is refreshing to come across articles that are candid without carping, critical yet constructive. Carl Javier, Assistant Professor at UP Diliman, composed just such an article for Rappler the other day, entitled “After Napoles“. His takeaway mirrors what JoeAm wrote a couple of blogs ago about President Aquino not being in the lead on the … Continue reading
WANTED: A New Breed of Corporate Owner
Reader’s lead me to a lot of good discussion topics. In this case, David Webb did the favor. In response to my suggestion that the Philippines could start its own military ship-building industry, he wondered if new manufacturing enterprises in the Philippines would fall into the hands of the trapos. I whipped out this top-of-mind … Continue reading
America: Thug or Conscience in a World Gone Mad?
One of the more jarring transitions that an American makes in coming to the Philippines is understanding the deep-seated resentment that some Filipinos carry toward America. The foundations for a lot of the angers and distrust are understandable: a racist America brutalizing its way across the Philippines in the Philippine American War, a brutal American … Continue reading
JoeAm Upgrades Judiciary from Substandard to Encouraging
S&P and Moodys’ have nothing on us less economically endowed opinion mongers. We, too, can distill a nation or a department down to one word. And it pleases me immensely to announce an upgrade in the rating for the Philippine Judiciary from “Substandard” to “Encouraging”. Frankly, I’ve been hard on the Judiciary of late. I … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 