tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post114947014549482688..comments2023-10-20T21:46:49.945+08:00Comments on Philippine Commentary: The Hello Garci Scandal -- A Year Later -- the Mark of the BeastDeany Bocobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149677615891851702006-06-07T18:53:00.000+08:002006-06-07T18:53:00.000+08:00Amadeo,I think MLQ3 understands "Liberal" as used ...Amadeo,<BR/>I think MLQ3 understands "Liberal" as used here to mean in the American sense of being for being government spending programs and always complaining that they aren't big enough. In our case, education is really a 150 billion peso subsidy to Comelec and DPWH, which also happens to serve as a giant aging vat. <BR/><BR/>But I agree: to be liberal in this sense is to be reactionary to the alternatives. For example, it is simply inconceivable to liberals that we would "touch the plantilla" as Jon mentions. But the simple fact is at 90% of the budget for salaries, there really isn't much left over but to keep the lights on. Just like in an aging vat.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149658221812527662006-06-07T13:30:00.000+08:002006-06-07T13:30:00.000+08:00Dean:“MLQ3's essay is the standard bearer for what...Dean:<BR/><BR/>“MLQ3's essay is the standard bearer for what would be called in other climates, "the liberal position".”<BR/><BR/>Reading the piece of MLQIII, I’m not sure why it could be categorized as the liberal position. If we talk in the context of education, being liberal most likely refer to a preference for the studies in liberal arts and the humanities, over those studies in business, engineering, etc.<BR/><BR/>And if we are refering to political philosophies, while we can de-emphasize somewhat the more traditional view of being liberal, which is to be for progress and reform and for the protection of civil liberties, still the government does have a pivotal role and responsibility in assuring the protection of the rights and liberties of its citizens, most especially those with no political clout to demand and seek redress, like the children and their rights to education.<BR/><BR/>And to round it out, to be liberal in Economics today can also be startlingly reactionary, because then one would be for laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.Amadeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040096079637569742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149638507804078122006-06-07T08:01:00.000+08:002006-06-07T08:01:00.000+08:00Dean, off-topic. It is easy for this generation t...Dean, off-topic. It is easy for this generation to forget our past, the way we were. But for us old foggies our upbringing and old ways were good and better than what we have today. It is so easy for GMA7 to get what we had in the past and to dress it up using their perspective and still say that it is PILIPINO.<BR/><BR/>Captain Barbell is a Pilipino creation by Mars Ravelo and my generation knows his story by heart. It breaks my heart to see Channel 7, supposedly a KAPUSO, to change the story of Captain Barbell and choose to follow the SUPERMAN story about his origin.<BR/>Nakakahiya naman. Mars Ravello's plot is original and Pinoy na Pinoy. They made it Comics and not Komiks, if you get my drift. <BR/><BR/>Paolo Bediones should not have tried to approximate a Marlon Brando but that is what they tried to do. If they wanted to originate Captain Barbell from the future, they should not have dressed their characters straight out of Hollywood futuristic films and even added characters recognizable from foreign films. Futuristic Pinoys dapat. <BR/><BR/>Channel 7 changed the whole character of this hero. Mars' concept is of a timid and shy person without super powers turning at the lift of a barbell into a superhero. Ravelo must be turning in his grave.Bernardo F. Ronquillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04054476909603464900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149599797047608772006-06-06T21:16:00.000+08:002006-06-06T21:16:00.000+08:00Why we can't touch the plantilla? Because if we do...Why we can't touch the plantilla? Because if we do, a lot of people will lose their jobs. We solve the education nightmare we introduce unemployment nightmare.<BR/><BR/>It's the same when we ask "Why do we still have jeepneys?". Because if we ban them, what will happen to the drivers?<BR/><BR/>Dean, it will take a lot of courage to implement what you want.Jon Marianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00386575006513247160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149593868139319272006-06-06T19:37:00.000+08:002006-06-06T19:37:00.000+08:00I don't believe the impeachment try will go anywhe...I don't believe the impeachment try will go anywhere Dean.<BR/><BR/>Not with this current crop of legislators. By the time a new set occupies the legislature, Gloria will have simply happily marched her way to an aircraft leaving for the States to the tune of an ISAFP band playing Aloha.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1149586821351029312006-06-06T17:40:00.000+08:002006-06-06T17:40:00.000+08:00MLQ3: I'm with Drilon today. He claims he is able ...MLQ3: I'm with Drilon today. He claims he is able to get school houses built at about half the price that DPWH will do it for. But even at DPWH prices, we've actually got plently of money to build all the school rooms we need AND equip them with computers too. <BR/><BR/>Just get rid of the MAKABAYAN/PELC subject-learning areas in the Curriculum, leaving Math, English, Science and Pilipino and you would have 30 billion pesos to do it with! And you could start hiring all the best teachers again, because, though there would be many fewer of them, they would have the tools to teach more and better. <BR/><BR/>But why is it a LIBERAL sacred cow that we can't touch the employment rolls?<BR/><BR/>No matter how much money the people allocate, the plantilla gets filled up way before the libraries and laboratories do.<BR/><BR/>That's my beef with it MLQ3. We need to live within the budget. that means we spend on ALL the critical components of the enterprise.<BR/><BR/>Like a moonshot, you can't get there with no fuel and half a rocket. <BR/><BR/>We can't use Deped as an adjunct of Comelec and DSWD and DOLE. <BR/><BR/>The Curriculum is VERY IMPT in budgetary matters. congestion in the curriculum, especially with moralistic subjects and requirements, leads to big employee rolls. <BR/><BR/>That is why the Constitutional critiism is also critical to understanding the budget philosophy i am espousing.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.com