20 years ago, the country seemed to have successfully thrown off the corruption of a decades old dictatorship.
Still, the Philippines finds itself in the same predicament after staging another "successful" people power revolution.
What makes it worse is the current administration seems to have learned from the past & will not allow history to repeat itself yet again.
The people feel it was all just a waste and are not too keen on putting themselves in harm's way again so that a different set of politicians can
fleece them. But they are seething.
They are being fed the line that the economy is getting better all the while inflation is quite tangible. The true backbone of the economy, the
overseas workforce, is under unbelievable pressure from the falling US dollar.
The masses, though too jaded to act, is like a volcano building up pressure all the while "doming" but not erupting.
They see the evidence of corruption from the lowest rung all the way to the top of the government. Bribery is everywhere. Its their sick culture.
They are resigned to its acceptance. The 9/11 terrorists probably decided to learn to fly in the philippines precisely because of the state of
affairs.
Poverty is the norm. Crime rate is high. They hear news of corruption that would've netted a couple elites $137 million dollars in just one single
deal.
The top brass of police & military further demoralizing the masses by their unwavering pledge to "uphold the constitution," i.e. keep the current
administration in power at all costs.
Soon the rising dome of this volcano will begin to show cracks from the pressure build up inside it; the seething angst of its exploited masses. Its
the immovable object destined to meet the irresistible force.
The situation in the Philippines is a tinderbox sitting on an enormous amount of inflammable mass.
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It's a shame because Phillipinos are some of the nicest people I've met in Hong Kong and the Philippines is beautiful, but money talks...
Viva la revolution!
MonKey
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you said and i quote
"The 9/11 terrorists probably decided to learn to fly in the philippines precisely because of the state of affairs. "
didn't they learned to fly in the US flight schools as corroborated by the evidences gathered after the fact?
but the plot for 9/11 might have been planned in the philippines and it was unearthed in a raid there in 1995. the planned airplane attack to hit
major US cities from international flights was intriguingly hatched by the now convicted 1st world trade centers bomber, which are also bin laden men.
here's the news article.
www.webcom.com...
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The wife of a freind at work is from the Phillipines, and she is afraid for her family there.
The status of the government there can also be seen in other nations of the world. Crumbling and rotting from the inside out. I've been to the
Phillipines and it is a very beautiful country, but also extremely poor.
The situation of the government there can be seen as a reflection to a degree in other countries. In the U.S. it does not matter who gets into
office, democrats or republicans. Once they get into office, we have the same thing again.
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