Protecting OFW's

[amingb]

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#Philippines #OFWs: The Smoking Gun of Failed Protectionist Economic Policy | Anti-Pinoy : World Edition

I Agree tungod aning Protectionist Policy walay kaugmaon ang Pilipinas ....


What is the impact of all these “protections”?

The impact of protectionist policy is very glaring:

1. By protecting the inefficiencies of Filipino businesses – we condone the inefficiency and wind up paying more for shoddy services. We need not go far. Just look at your electric bill, phone bill, your water bill – and its impact on your wallet.

By protecting PLDT, Globe, Meralco -we have consigned ourselves to more power outages, more network congestion, more power outages – and paying higher for the lack of services. This is unacceptable but since there is nowhere else to go people have no recourse but to bend over and hand over a substantial portion of their meager paychecks to Meralco, PLDT, and Maynilad.

Under an open and liberal economic regime, Filipinos can have more providers participate in providing power, water, internet, and phone services. If Globe/PLDT/Meralco/Maynilad is lousy, customers can just terminate their contracts with Globe/PLDT/Meralco/Maynilad and take their money elsewhere where they can get better value for the money they shell out.

2. By limiting the job providers to Filipino owned businesses only – we lose out on the jobs that could have been created by foreign owned businesses.

Don’t you find it strange (I do) that Filipino jobseekers keep foreign business out of the Philippines then go to foreign countries to find jobs overseas? They are still employed by foreigners overseas are they not? So what really is the big deal between being employed by foreigners overseas versus being employed by foreign owned busineses in the Philippines.

[reptoid]

It is shameful to accept as normal a situation where so many are forced to seek employment overseas. The government has not created an environment conducive to economic prosperity. The rich get richer... the poor have extremely limited prospects and nothing much is changing. It is time to open the market to fair foreign investment. Filipinos have long taken advantage of other countries, reciprocation is in order.

[kit_cebu]

hahaha...sucks to be here...but wait...there's more!!! SUCKS TO BE POOR!!!

asa ra gud tong reklamo ug panukala nga i-barato ang TEXT MESSAGING...hangtod karon nga PISO raman gihapon...
pastilan...

[<SMILE>]

The influence of business towards politics and vice versa in the Philippines,
do made a lot of obstacle in terms of introducing foreign investors towards the Philippines economic arena.
They could not freely do business here without local partnership and thus do not have total control of their investment
and somehow with the famous trait of the filipinos of being crook and corrupt a good chance is there for a rip-off.
Sad to say the government structure that we do have is not pro-people but pro-personal interest.

We created a god out of them and now they are acting as gods dictating the course of our very lives
apparent with the widespread fanaticism during elections, we are not voting for servants but puting in place
dominant and clandestine autocrats.

A collusion of the business sector and the politicians do made our respective lives far more worse,
thus can be considered as milking cows and inadvertent slaves, earning more paying less, asking for more tax,
while they the tycons closer to the strongest politicians could evade billions of unpaid taxes. We are in dire straits
just because the sector to where we suppose to rely did not deliver but instead did the other way around.
A hapless Philippines and Filipinos, I could say.

[amingb]

@<SMILE> mo palag jud ang mga Fanboy ana imo statement ... kay according to them no need na kay we are in the tuwid na daan .. the economy growing ug hapit na daw ta mag tiger economy ....

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It is shameful to accept as normal a situation where so many are forced to seek employment overseas. The government has not created an environment conducive to economic prosperity. The rich get richer... the poor have extremely limited prospects and nothing much is changing. It is time to open the market to fair foreign investment. Filipinos have long taken advantage of other countries, reciprocation is in order.

According to them particularly the fan boy is we are on the right track ...

[Kristiano]

hahaha...sucks to be here...but wait...there's more!!! SUCKS TO BE POOR!!!

asa ra gud tong reklamo ug panukala nga i-barato ang TEXT MESSAGING...hangtod karon nga PISO raman gihapon...
pastilan...

ug para dili mahimoslan ang apps with messaging features, they keep 3G services slow and expensive!! bisag 4G, murag 3G...

[pak88]

The government does not look after the interest of the ordinary people but that of big businesses because they do not contribute to the pockets of the politicians who make the policies. All that crap about protecting local businesses is just a cover for protecting the contributors to their pockets.

[amingb]

I think this is all about the Aquino's .. its time to change the constitution and get rid of them .. ang Curse nga gi bilin ni Quezon gi samotan sa mga Aquino ...

Ang incharge ani sa Constitutional Amendments sa Congress puerting haya2x pud sa panguarta ana ... mas pa sa tanan .. grabi jud ang Lobbying ani sa mga Oligarchs aron dili dayonon ang Charter Change ..

I Vote Gibo last presidential election tungod anang Charter Change kay mao jud na iyaha unahon jud daw ... sa tinood mao jud ni naka purdoy nato karon kanang obsolete nga constitution designed sa medieval period.

[emow]

According to bastiat, protectionism is ultimately paid by the common people. Most of the points mentioned only pertains to local protected against foreign investments. But protectionist policy occurs also within local markets. For bastiat, protectionism includes: minimum wage, licenses, subsidies, price controls, tariffs, customs agencies and many more... all of these ultimately means the commoner having to pay more on things that could have cost them less. The alteration in the price mechanism cause by these protectionist policies affects the real market supply and demand which affects the proper allocation of capital into their most productive use.


If we clamor against protectionism, let us do it all the way and not only by selective abolition.

[kit_cebu]

OFWs...

WORLD CLASS SEAFARERS?
Updated on Tuesday · Taken at In front of the office of MARINA....
Sila ang tinataguriang " WORLD CLASS SEAFARERS " na ipinagmalaki ng ating bansa. Minsan tinatawag din silang mga BAGONG BAYANI. Kahit ang mga dayuhang may-ari ng barko ay sumasaludo sa kanila. Ang kanilang annual remittance ay mahigit 4 na bilyong dolyares na siyang nagpapaunlad ng ekonomiya ng ating bansa.

Their hard earned dollars derived from their sweat, blood,tears and loneliness to provide a better life for their families. Do they deserved a service like this from our government office?

Kuha ang larawang ito kagabi ng alas ONSE. February 17, 2013...