Making It Fun in the Philippines

It's not a guarantee that just because a country practices federalism that the taxes will automatically be lower than unitarian governments. But looking at what DILG Secretary Mar Roxas said that, "Federalism will lead to higher taxes." is really an unsubstantiated conclusion. Talk about reaching into the conclusion before the facts and figures are studied. But again, isn't it that many Filipinos have that bad habit of making comments before they even finish reading and analyzing posts ? I guess Roxas must be doing the same on the Internet huh? For Roxas, can this guy get any more dumber? What was known the last time was that he supported economic liberalization but in an act of flip-flopping went against it. Now he's decided to say that federalism would automatically raise taxes. What he may have conveniently ignored or didn't know is that Malaysia is a federal state but it has 25% maximum for taxable income while the Philippines for a unitarian gove...

Having found this really funny picture of Mar Roxas as Mister Pogi, I think any Filipino who grew up watching Dragon Ball Z may remember this guy. Known to American audiences as Hercule (Hercules minus the s), the character is a comic relief who gets the adoration of the masses while he grabs credit for what he didn't do. Do you remember the Cell Saga in Dragon Ball Z if you are a Dragon Ball fan? Gohan was the REAL HERO who defeated Cell and in one of the animated movies, he defeated Bojack... but both victories were credit-grabbed by Mister Pogi. Likewise, Mar has dared to claim many achievements that were not his to be his like the cheaper medicine act or the help in Tacloban. Tacloban had plenty of other aid and not just the government when it came to helping the Typhoon Yolanda victims.

Last time, I wrote about the ugly cycle of necropolitics  and this coming election has that problem all over again. If you remember, people just voted for the late Corazon C. Aquino because her husband Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" A. Aquino Jr. was murdered at the Manila Airport. Then her death may have triggered the election of Benigno Simeon "Nobita" C. Aquino III. Now it's time to really take a look at what's going on with Leni Robredo's campaign. Like the late Cory, it looks like this is "paawa na naman" or asking for pity from voters. Instead of tackling on RECENT issues, why is Leni again focused on martial law? Now I don't deny that the martial law years had a lot of issues to answer for but that doesn't leave the legacy of PNoy Pride a clean legacy either . Plus, why is everyone really blaming Bongbong for something he didn't do and glorify President Nobita Aquino for a heroism he didn't do? It wasn't President Nobita ...

What really makes those ultranationalists amazing is how hypocritical they are in their crying out foul against foreigners to get out but they are enjoying stuff created by foreigners. Let's just think that a few years ago, there was a proposal that would forbid Filipinos from bringing imported audio and video media from abroad. Fortunately, that stupid proposal didn't push through. Now let's really focus on this rather funny video of this clown.  How much of a hypocrite is he with shouting against foreign investments ? Guitars were introduced by Spain during their occupation, he's in an American-style office, he's being recorded by a camera that's obviously not made in the Philippines and just everything here isn't authentically Filipino. I just thought if he wants to promote "Sariling Atin Only" mentality then he should do this...

It's understandable that one of the biggest constraints of the Philippines when it comes to Internet service quality is that the country is composed of 7,107 islands . So here Rep. Neri Colmenares of Bayan Muna is really showing more reasons why the Party List to where he belongs to is better called "Bobo Muna". I mean, do you even remember how this guy is really against economic liberalization where he claims that foreign businesses will crush the local businesses. All this while getting involved with Western stuff like he hypocritically gets published on the social media, he holds a microphone, he wears Western style clothes, uses a smart phone which NONE of them were invented by Filipinos or Filipino brands. Since the Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands then do you think having very few Internet service providers (ISP) would work? Singapore can have fast Internet with having a few ISPs because it's an island but not with the Philippines. Because ...

Not all straight roads lead to progress and unfortunately the whole legacy of PNoy Pride  is a terrible joke to start with. As President Nobita's term is about to come to an end - it's time to really reevaluate of the failures of the Nobita Aquino Administration. It's problematic how the Aquino fanatics have this mentality, " Basta Aquino, iboto ko. " and they help perpetuate the cycle of necropolitics . If you remember Ninoy died then Cory became president, Cory died then Nobita became president and when he dies you might as well expect a Kris Aquino presidency . It also has me thinking about Leni Robredo getting endorsed because of her late husband Jesse Robredo.  Starting with President Nobita's campaign that says, "Kung walang corrupt ay walang mahirap." or "If there are no corrupt people, there are no poor people." it is really a preposterous campaign promise to start with. If you're going to get out of poverty it's yo...

There are always those idiotic ultranationalists who have their "Get out (insert country)." rallies  but wait, there's got to be something that really should make you laugh if you observe them closely. The picture above shows a lot of stuff like the use of American products or stuff born from American influence. Even if the denims they were wearing might be Filipino-produced but it was introduced by Americans, the use of computer print outs presumably by American branded stuff and just a lot of stuff were either from America or born out of American influence. "If you hate foreigners, why do you enjoy stuff brought in by foreigners? " would also be a good question to throw at those anti-American Filipino activists. They hate America so much but maybe at the end of the day they go to McDonald's, KFC and then they are watching television. Even if they were watching their beloved telebasuras instead of any imported show but weren't those television sets ...