Vice President Leni Loud Robredo herself is a BA Economics graduate from the University of the Philippines, right? Yes, I don't want to deny that unlike Imee, she did get her degree and had a real yearbook to justify it. I don't think the photo above of her is a forgery. Far from it. I think a trip to the UP-Diliman where she graduated can certify that she indeed graduated from BA Economics. Also, Leni Loud proceeded to become a lawyer. I don't want to shoot down her credentials as ifs he bought them. I don't think she bought them. But why am I calling this now as Leni Loud's massive failure of the mind? It's because there are so many highly educated people today who are just like the scholars in the short story The Scholars and the Lion. The highly educated scholars resurrected a dead lion to their demise. You can have 100 doctorates and still be a real-life fool.
I don't deny some of the Liberal Party members have high achievements back then. Mar Roxas is a Wharton Graduate. Bam Aquino (before politics) was once a brilliant businessman and a role model to businessmen. Noynoy Aquino graduated BA Economics from Ateneo De Manila University. Noynoy did pass some important economic amendments like some of his predecessors during his term according to the Asian Correspondent. Leni Loud herself would have been that once brilliant woman who had lost it. I remembered how I mentioned how Bum lost his mind in politics. Mar also lost his mind in politics. The same thing may have happened to Leni Loud. I don't want to talk much about flunking the bar. Some lawyers can share that they flunk the bar. Even Leni Loud admits it. The big issue is about her massive failure of the mind in regard to other dealings. I'm not going to shoot down what good she does but time to really where she has her massive failure of the mind.
Leni Loud has some useful alternatives but the question is has she considered the need for funding and the current SYSTEM? Consider how she has listed above some of her plans for recovery. I'm not going to say that they're all wrong. Has she considered the major obstacles that could come in the way of her recommendations? Her plans require a lot of digital work and money. But did she consider the obstacles of SLOW INTERNET due to duopoly only versus 7,107 islands and the excessive restrictions to foreign direct investment (FDI)? How can we digitize the economy if the Philippines has the SLOWEST Internet connection in ASEAN? How can there be more jobs if we don't allow FDIs to enter because of whatever lame excuses have been given by leftists and crony capitalists?
The fact she said that constitutional reform can come later is BOGUS. Whether she likes to admit it or not - first world countries will NOT wait for the Philippines to reform. When she met Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean from Singapore - did she bother to take down notes and propose them? I wonder if Leni Loud ever read From Third World to First and see how the late Lee Kuan Yew transformed an island once worse than the Philippines into a first world country. Just focus on COVID-19 right now? Hasn't she heard of job division and delegation? Some people can be in-charge of COVID-19 and others on economic reforms. I wonder if she should consider handing down control of Angat Buhay to anybody she can trust then let her focus on economics. If she wants to focus on Angat Buhay then focus on it. She's not doing herself a favor by multitasking. If anything, she's just causing her mind to fail in the process. Worse, she hasn't seen that the system is the real problem. How can she even hold President Rodrigo R. Duterte accountable if her position between Opposition Leader and Vice President isn't even clearly defined? In a parliamentary, a Deputy Prime Minister must be from the government and not from the opposition. She's once again multitasking herself which isn't good.
Not to mention, Leni Loud apparently thinks that pasaways are not to blame. Please, while rallies themselves aren't solely to blame but she needs to see that pasaways too contribute to the rise of COVID-19 cases. In fact, UP-Diliman campus sadly had hundreds of people infected with COVID-19. Still, think that the rallies don't help contribute? Fortunately, some UP students were good enough not to attend those rallies or attend the walkouts. I wonder did she go on-site and notice that there are plenty of pasaways too? That also contributes to her failure of mind when she ignores the obvious causes. She doesn't need to be an epidemiologist like former Taiwanese vice president Chen Chien Jen to understand that good discipline and social distancing helped Taiwan win. There are pasaways everywhere but consider that other countries have a very low number of pasaways. The Philippines seems to have a monopoly on it due to how often it's said that the Philippines is full of pasaways. How often do you see that a lot of Filipinos just don't follow simple guidelines? Did she really forget to implement rules on how to effectively deal with pasaways after seeing the obvious lapses such as Debold Sinas' birthday gathering? Again, both civilians and authorities who are pasaway need to be held accountable - not just one without the other.
What Leni Loud needs right now is to examine herself. She seems to be still out of reality at times. She has fantastic ideas but she seems not to account for how to do them. I'm not saying she has no right to criticize. In fact, she has the duty to criticize but is her criticism valid? Sadly, it seems that she's got a huge failure of the mind going on in the long run.
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