What happens when you put an honest man in a position to run the government? This.

I’m not saying a man of the cloth because we’ve seen men in habits do dastardly acts… what we need are more honest men in the top tiers of government.

Seriously, if Governor Ed ran for president in 2010, I’d vote for him.

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Just a day away from the election. Everytime its election season flashbacks of a college religion class comes to my mind… our teacher was doing a round robin of the class population asking us what our opinion was on the elections… Seeking for a unique answer to the question, the answer miraculously popped into my head:

Elections, for me, was never an exercise in choosing good from bad nor right from wrong, but rather choosing the lesser of two evils…

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I have to express my condolences to the Family of Haydee Yorac. Who died today after succumbing to her battle with Ovarian Cancer.

The Philippines has once again lost a great public servant.

This could mean a lot to us 3rd would countries…. 50% of the Philippine budget goes to debt servicing (Last time I heard I think it was 68%, not sure)… pretty soon as the deficit get’s badder and badder, most of the budget will go to debt servicing… and chaos will ensue when we can’t service our basic needs anymore…

We could do an Argentina, where they stopped debt payment all together till they got favorable terms from their creditors… but that crashed their economy…

With this proposal of debt for equity swap… 50% of our debt payment would go to projects for poverty alleviation… we could in fact have the breathing space we need to build our economy… It has to be clarified of course that we aren’t asking for debt forgiveness… but rather just some breathing cap… but heck, I’d prefer debt forgiveness… (if I have to beg, I’d beg… hehehe)

Article here

I really hope that the our creditors will agree to this idea…