Comments on: PGMA Planning To Extend her Term

By: Global Voices Online » Philippines as a Federal State

Global Voices Online » Philippines as a Federal State — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:56:25 +0000

[...] proposal to amend the constitution which will make the Philippines a federal republic. Carlo Ople believes it is part of a ploy to extend the term of the incumbent president. Posted by Mong Palatino [...]

By: Manoy

Manoy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:08:38 +0000

+1 I refused to believe back then that GMA is the vile leader that the opposition and leftists always claim..

But now I’m not so sure.. I don’t relish the politics talk, but if I had anything to say about her: I don’t trust her motives/actions anymore.

When I think about it, what’s evident for the last two presidents we had:

Erap has lust for money.. Fair enough, he was ousted.
GMA has lust.. for power. Now that’s beyond just money.

Just my opinion, my assessment.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:03:58 +0000

@me
+1 I agree.

By: me

me — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:49:07 +0000

I don’t think that the people are really that naive not to believe that this plan has nothing to do with GMA wanting to cling a little longer to power. The truth is, she hasn’t done the Philippines any good and there’s no amount of press releases can change the fact that life in the Philippines has become dire under her rule. Our debt soars and don’t pretend for a second that those monies went to the benefit of the people who will end up paying for those debt. It’s a double whammy craftily planned by GMA. Not only that we have to pay those debt for our and our children’s lifetime, we also have to contend ourselves with the substandard public service offered by the government because the big chunk of the revenue ends up servicing our ginormous foreign debt she accrued during her brief stint at the palace.

By: Salleh

Salleh — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:00:21 +0000

oh for goodness sake, lagi na lang bang idadahilan yang pag extend ng position ni PGMA sa pwesto ang ipapanakot para lang hindi magkaron ng magandang programa ang gobyerno para sa mga pilipino!

Kapag may magandang hangarin ang gobyerno eh narito si ang mga oposisyong hahadlang kasi nga naman minus sa pogi points nila ang pagganda ng record ng administration. kapag may simpleng butas na makita, dakdak dito, sigaw sa media, hakot ng mga squatters para mag rally blah blah blah.

Yan na lang ba ang kayang gawin? pulitika nga naman. mas masarap naman sanang marinig na makipagtulungan kayo at masigurong hindi lalagpas sa talagang nais ng mga pilipino ang mailalagay dyan sa bagong saligang basta na lilikhain. bantayang maigi! pagibayuhin ang mga supporting laws na gagarantiya na maliit sa hanggang wala ang pag-abuso.

Hindi iyang may magandang hangarin na nga sa pagsulong ng pederalismo eh sasamahan pa ng mga haka-hakang ang tanging layunin ay pasikat sa bayan.