amendments to the 1987 constitution that I want:

[wanderlust]

the worse will come if the article 12 national trade and patrimony is going to be abolished. it states that if a foreigner invests in our country it should be that the government will own 60% of the company and 40% for the f***ing foreigner.

if it is abolished our country will become a private property of foreigners which will make our fellow filipinos become squatters in their own country.our resources will only serve the greediness of the foreign investors while nothing is left for us filipinos to use.

100% foreign ownership of mining operations is now permitted, this for good reason: we simply don't have enough funds to sustain this business. Look at what happened to Filipino-owned mining ventures who went bankrupt and weren't able to clean up their mess. With the Supreme Court decision upholding the Constitutionality of the mining act, the market hummed with foreign investors wanting to invest in the Philippines, and you know this translates to millions of jobs for our countrymen.

The Constitution is dynamic, it is supposed to change according to the needs of the times. The key word here is the national interest - it is no longer in the nation's interest to keep its doors closed lest its citizens wallow in poverty within.

[nadine eidloth]

kung sakali man na mapalitan o ma-amyendahan ang ating 1987 konstitusyon. Gusto ko sanang ipanukala ay:

ang honest and diligent taxpayers o nagbabayad ng tamang buwis.

tunay na Filipino.

18 yrs. old above.

ang may karapatan lamang:


Sabihin na natin na yon ang dapat mangyari..eh paano kung ang tumatanggap ng buwis o yong mga nasa BIR ang hindi honest. Does it make any change at all? Pareho lang din ang mangyayari. Hindi ang amendments ng isang constitution ang solution sa problema ngayon kundi ang pagtahimik ng mga nasa oposition dahil takot ang mga investors dahil sa gulong nangyayari kaya lumalala tuloy ang problema sa unemployment and then mas naghihirap ang nakakarami.

na makabuto.

na makatakbo sa lahat ng Public Office (from President down to the Baranggay Captains and Councilours and Sangguniang Kabataan).

at maging ang lahat na mai-appoint sa Public Office, Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations,
at Government Financial Institutions.

at hindi Parliamentary at Federal System of Government.

[slyder]

@ spec v and slyder: So the two of you are willing to sell our country to foreigners in exchange for few pieces of silver. Wow, modern day Judases.

hey, the word "selling" is overly exaggerated, if you'll ask me, i want a certain country to educate us, not sell. and judas will i be for liberating my country out of corruption, poverty and bankruptcy. Finland is a nice counrty to liberate us form corruption. what do you think??

[slyder]

Mugabe Sells Bankrupt Zimbabwe's Assets to China
Rochelle Mutton
The Age, 1 August 2005


"We will never be a colony again!" This has been the catch-cry of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe throughout his 25-year reign.

But while he rails against perceived imperialist, colonial agendas and denounces anything white-skinned or Western, Mr Mugabe has spent this week in China signing over his bankrupt country's resources to the Asian economic superpower.

Analysts claim the Chinese are forging a "colonial extractive relationship" with Zimbabwe, which has sold forward more than a year's worth of gold and tobacco production in exchange for Chinese military hardware and diplomatic support.

Zimbabwe is the world's fastest shrinking economy and as it looks east for a saviour, China has a keen eye on the southern African nation's rich platinum deposits.

During a six-day visit to China this week, Mr Mugabe, banned from Western countries including Australia, was warmly greeted by Chinese President Hu Jintao as "an old friend" and given a professorship.

But as Mr Mugabe turns to the Chinese to solve Zimbabwe's $US4.5 billion ($A5.89 billion) debt migraine, commentators such as University of Zimbabwe's Professor Brian Raftopoulos are concerned the relationship will cost Zimbabwe dearly.

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"The Chinese have a huge interest in extractive industries everywhere. Their influence is certainly growing in Africa, not just in Zimbabwe but Angola, Sudan and elsewhere," he said yesterday. "But of course it will be at high cost to Zimbabwe. It's almost a colonial extractive relationship that seems to be developing."

While Mr Mugabe was coy about the exact nature of his deals with the Chinese, Zimbabwean economist Eddy Cross claimed yesterday the Zimbabwean Government had forward-sold precious gold and tobacco to "pay" for Chinese-made military consignments that included 12 jet fighters, three 60-seat turboprop planes and 700 troop carriers.

"We put the total of those transactions at about $US480 million and that was a cash deal that was done at the beginning of this year," Mr Cross said.

"And to fund it the Government sold 25 tonnes of gold forward, speculatively, at a set price. We used to produce about three tonnes of gold a month. And they also sold some of the tobacco forward and the balance was found in cash."

Zimbabwe has been condemned by the United Nations and Western countries for its two-month old demolition campaign Operation Murambatsvina — or "clean out the filth" — that has left 700,000 people homeless and affected a further 2.4 million.

Described in a UN report as a disastrous venture with enormous humanitarian consequences, the action was believed to be retribution for the huge support for the opposition in the urban areas during the March elections.

Starting on May 19, police spent weeks destroying the informal markets and homes of the urban poor, and are now rounding up these devastated masses and forcing them into holding camps. After a hasty screening, they are dumped hundreds of kilometres away, in the far reaches of the drought-stricken, landlocked country.

Yet while the booming informal trading sector has been razed and goods either confiscated or destroyed, every Zimbabwean city is awash with cheap Chinese goods, from glassware to clothing and trinkets.

Government contracts are awarded to Chinese businesses for major works such as hospitals and bridges.

Mr Cross claims Chinese interests have also been given farms, from which some white Zimbabwean farmers were evicted allegedly on the basis of redistribution to landless blacks.

"The Chinese have been granted the rights to develop 100,000 hectares of irrigation land in the Mwenzi area, about 450 kilometres south of Harare," he said.

"Also, they have been looking at a set of farms in the Banket-Raffingora area and these are farms on the Hanyani River and they constitute some of the largest farms in the Mashonaland area.

"Settlers (newly established black residents) are being removed from those properties right now. Apparently this is what was agreed in Beijing, that the Chinese are going to take these properties over — and Chinese State farming organisations are actually going to run them."

Zimbabwe, increasingly isolated internationally, is also expecting China to use its veto to block any censure at the UN Security Council.
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we could end up the same with zimbabwe soon if this senseless political bickering won't end up soon.

[s.n.m.p.]

the worse will come if the article 12 national trade and patrimony is going to be abolished. it states that if a foreigner invests in our country it should be that the government will own 60% of the company and 40% for the f***ing foreigner.

if it is abolished our country will become a private property of foreigners which will make our fellow filipinos become squatters in their own country.our resources will only serve the greediness of the foreign investors while nothing is left for us filipinos to use.

100% foreign ownership of mining operations is now permitted, this for good reason: we simply don't have enough funds to sustain this business.Â* Look at what happened to Filipino-owned mining ventures who went bankrupt and weren't able to clean up their mess.Â* With the Supreme Court decision upholding the Constitutionality of the mining act, the market hummed with foreign investors wanting to invest in the Philippines, and you know this translates to millions of jobs for our countrymen.

The Constitution is dynamic, it is supposed to change according to the needs of the times.Â* The key word here is the national interest - it is no longer in the nation's interest to keep its doors closed lest its citizens wallow in poverty within.

Why not amke this country a state of US of A. That is always the prevailing mindset of MERKAN wannabees. With your thinking, mao ra man ug adto ta ana paingon. Hala, let them own everything we have. Exploit our resources and our people to the hilt and leave us dry and bleeding. Dont tell such tall tales of progress with that multinational corporations around.

I was not born yesterday.

[nadine eidloth]

@louie_arias

Let us say ganon ang mangyayari hindi kaya mapupunta lang sa mga corrupt employee sa bir ang tax? Ang problema sa bayan ay nasa mga tao sa oosisyon na ayw tumahimik para idin ang pangulo para sila narin ang umupo sa puwesto yon naman lagi ang inaabangan nila. Kaya takot ang mga investors mag invest sa bansa natin dahil sa gulo sa mga taong ayaw tumanggap ng pagkatalo. Yes, thats true maganda ang maging resulta niyan lkundi corrupt ang mga nasa posisyon. Hindi sindali nang iniisip mo ang gusto mong mangyari. Hindi mo ba naisip ang isa rin sa problema natin which is the un empoyment dahil bihira lang ang mga foriegn investors takot kasi sa gulo.

[Wind Shear]

Strike out the official language.

[GuutGuut]

Change to Federal form of government

[salbahis]

Strike out the official language.

whats wrong with the official language?

[Renz8]

Why fix it if it's not brokenIt is not the law that needs to be fix but the 1 implementing/running the law w/c is the 3 branches of government executive,judiciary&legislative that's why there are elections so that we can put the right people on the job but sadly we Pinoys failed to elect the right people.......