Weekly Question Hour Would Really Change Philippine Politics

I remembered writing a couple of posts related to the Weekly Question Hour. A stupid 4Ps-obsessed old man (who hypocritically lives in Australia) believes that the Philippine media is more than enough than weekly questioning. But the question is, does this stupid old man even realize the biases of the media? Then again he's biased and won't believe any sources if they weren't owned by his beloved fellow Dilawans. He says Question and Answer (Q & A) won't work in the Philippines in contrast to the Philippines' privately-owned media. Let's shoot down his stupidity with common sense. Just because he's an old man with a math degree from a prestigious university doesn't mean he's infallible. Worse, a fat Murican that Peter Griffin even dares to say that weekly questioning will make it worse.

Let's consider the system of innovation and quality control. Weekly evaluation is being used to make sure that every step of the way works. It's like innovating something. Do you think that innovation would be better if it weren't for weekly checks for progress? If there's hardly any inspection then do you think quality will be good? Weekly inspection keeps a check on the progress of intended projects. It's just like schools with good discipline do a weekly assessment of the classes and students. Do you think that having a weekly assessment is a bad idea? The weekly assessment will quickly point out the faults before they get worse. While suspending and firing people is part of school-life and work-life but don't you want to implement a system that would make them less needed? You can fire or suspend all the incompetents but a bad system will give you plenty more of rotten eggs than you can handle.

How would the weekly question hour change things? There's a proper procedure such as requiring a certain degree of transparency that is required of authority figures. There's a time limit per person -- that means you can't just talk and talk. Then you have the need to prove your statements regardless of which side you belong to. If you're in the Opposition Bloc then you just don't oppose as you really need to give better alternatives to the Government Bloc -- something that the current "opposition" is failing at. That would mean that Deputy Prime Minister Leni Loud Robredo will have to attend all these debates with the question of her surviving. It would also mean that Opposition Leader Antonio Trillanes IV will have to prove his statements or risk getting thrown out. Prime Minister Rodrigo R. Duterte will have to be confronted for his failures. These things have to be televised and printed in the newspapers WEEKLY making transparency a lot higher.

So why aren't Q & A sessions working in the Philippines? It's because of the simple fact that it's not done regularly. Why do you think legislators are caught sleeping on camera? It's because it's not aired weekly. Do you think they would be sleeping if there was a formal debate with a rigid set of rules EVERY WEEK where it's televised and published in the newspapers? More and more incompetent and corrupt politicians will be removed on a weekly basis. It would also mean that more and more incompetent people will be forced to conform or they'd be thrown out.