Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Karl Garcia
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JoeAmLike, Dude, Dump the Beggar Economy, Yeah?
The Philippines runs a beggar economy. It is as slapdash as a cardboard house on Fourth & Main in Los Angeles, screaming for handouts, with lots of poor people cheating and crying for a freebies. Even rich folks angle for favors, little better than beggars, because they don’t want to EARN their advantages; they want … Continue reading
Good God, Good News
In August of 2011, JoeAm published a six-part series on the poor condition of Philippine public schools. In November 2011, he published an article regarding the same topic onblogwatch.tv. He argued for an internet based educational model that would supplant the impossibly bankrupt current educational model anchored by thousands of hollowblock schools, thousands of mediocre … Continue reading
Doy Santos
Doy Santos writes as “The Cusp” on propinoy.net. His background is economics so he brings a lot to the table in terms of understanding the mechanisms of wealth generation. Or lack thereof . . . Hisrecent article challenges those who are focused on Chief Justice Corona’s half-baked SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilites and Income) to … Continue reading
Sociopathic Media
Here is a brief rundown on modern social media, which essentially are the places where ordinary people publish words of one kind or another as if they really knew what they were doing. Meanwhile, older mass media whither and die. In the dying, they desperately try to stave off bankruptcy by getting evermore radical and … Continue reading
If I Were King of the Philippines . . .
If I were King of the Philippines, I would stop using agriculture as a way to help poor people directly by giving them land, which they can’t turn to profits and cash, or jobs, which have no upside but a lifetime of back-breaking work. It is a dead socialistic experiment. It has failed. Dead. Dead. … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 