Parliamentary for the Philippines?

The change of government is not going to correct the ills of the Philippines. Corruption is possible under any form of government.

Presidential style government requires a bill to be written in the House, then passed on to the Senate for approval, then passed on to the President to be signed in to law. Under a Parliamentary style government one branch of government writes, passes and signs a bill into law. A majority of the members of Parliament decides the outcome. Presidential style government has three checks before a bill becomes a law whereas Parliamentary only has one.

Today's paper states a recent survey conducted by an international group shows forty percent of all the Philippine people took part in some act of corruption last year in order to avoid traffic fines, receive better medical services, receive permits, etc. As long as corruption is an acceptable part of the Philippine culture you can expect political and governance problems.

The present problem is the failure of the Senate to do its job. The House sends bills to the Senate for approval and the Senate is so busy conducting personal inquires to make problems for the Administration that nothing is getting done in the Philippines. The Senate never passed the 2006 budget and now is only promising to pass the 2007 before Christmas.

The people should not be going to the street to protest the style of governement and the Administration. The people of the Philippines should be going to the streets to demand that the Senate does what they were elected to do and that is debate legistlation.

The leaders of the Catholic Church should limit themselves to the spiritual an moral lives of the people instead of trying to force elected officials of the Philippines to do as the CATHOLIC Church leaders want.

I am amused the Catholic Church leaders oppose how the majority of the House handled recent Constitutional and Admendment changes, yet they resort to the same tactics. Statistics show Catholics now only make up 85 percent of the population of the Philippines, yet the Catholic Church leaders want to inflict their rule upon all the people of the Philippines. What about the 15 percent minority that are not Catholic. The Catholic Church is not allowing their leaders to have imput in their decisions.

I do not think a few Bishops sitting on a CATHOLIC Church Board should be trying to rule a country when in reality the Catholic Church in the Philippines and world wide has major problems. The Catholic Church is not governed in a Democratic way. The Catholic Church has a dictator form of government with absolute rule ending with the Pope if the Pope so desires. I am very much Catholic being a retired Priest, but I do not want people that were not elected by the people dictating the policies of my country. The people of the Catholic Church do not have a voice in how the Church is ran and I do not want a few Catholic leaders inflicting that same policy on my government.

I do not believe a change in government is wise at this time because I do not think the form of government is the problem.

Bicameral, the present form of government in the Philippines, is not effective at all. Politicians in the Philippines, are so self centered that whatever one politician say, the other will surely contradict. At the end, the Filipino people suffers.

I remember I had this analogy. In Malaysia (Unicameral or Parliamentary), when the government say magtatayo tayo ng isang poste. They will make one magnificent poste. Whereas in the Philippines (bicameral, congress and Senate), pag sinabi ng lower house na magtatayo ng poste, the senate will veto the said law kasi they don't belong to the same political party. At the end, taong bayan ang kawawa.

Now if you ask me if parliament will work in the Philippines, I think it will. It works in most Asian countries, I think it will work in the Philippines.

Remember that our democracy is a democracy that is abused. Look at the Basic Rights of the people, kasi the people has the right to voice out everything, people wash their dirty clothes in public. They forget about their obligation.

People always complain the government don't do this, the government don't do that. But they don't pay their taxes, an obligation to the government.

Separation of church and state... can someone remind this to the good bishops? I just can't take the reason of those bishops saying that is their moral obligation. What moral obligation? Did you see what happen to the morality of the Filipinos for over 500 years?

I remember that tragedy in the Visayas last February. People around the world rush their help to rescue the lives of the people. What did Cory Aquino did? Just because it is their right to protest, they did and ignore helping our kababayan in the Visayas. How can you expect others to help you when you yourself can't help yourself?

We should put Cory Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Imelda Marcos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Arroyo, Communist leaders like Joma Sison, Satur Ocampo, Teddy Casiño, Liza Masa, all Congressman, Senators, Cabinet Secretaries including Church leaders like Eddie Villanueva, Mike Velarde and the Catholic Bishops and most of all members of the Makati Business Club in one building and blow it up as hard as the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing. After that, call the United Nations to take over the Philippines as a defunct state. Appoint a foreigner as President, put the Philippine Army under the UN and give the Philippines an ultimatum. Shape up or be broken into pieces and be sold to the highest bidder.

Also, this is a travel forum. So I suggest you post your questions in another category. Thanks

It probably wont work and will make matters worse. The fundamental problem in Philippine government is in the flawed ethics and morality within most of its present members. They choose to disregard or willingly misinterpret the law as it stands right now. Making a drastic change in government will not change those destructive mindsets.

sure. i imagine it creates more desirable of a concept of exams and balances that makes regulations from a consensus. giving a lot less potential for one human being to deprave and makes more desirable ideal selections because it really is inspired by using many perspectives. imagine engaged on some thing on my own on one end, and with a collection of persons on one job on the different. likely the latter would produce more desirable ideal consequences only from the inputs of concepts. there will be some exceptions, yet you will see maximum parliamentary governments in advanced international places and maximum advanced international places are parliamentary. the US, which many evaluate to be in the bottom of the ratings interior of advanced international places in words of boom, isn't parliamentary.

<<< Inalingawngaw ang sagot ni Tom.*

*Echoed Tom's answer. Hahahaha!

Kidding aside, Tom's response is very insightful. Mabuhay!

tsendying da porm op gubermint well not tsends eneteng. da pipol ho ran por oppis are agli monkis wit ekwali agli sols. dey are op da debil. ip you want to mek pasitib tsendiyes en yur gubermint, you mas not allaw akturs and aktrises prom teking opis. mos op dim are bad aktors eniwey so way o way wud you tenk dey well mek gud politisiyans?

ulso, it well be nesesari to mebi dipurt all pulitikel pamilis/klans. dis rits pipol trabel abrod all da taym enihuwey, so dey mayt as will lib samwir ils. en ep dey repius, biri dem alayb!

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