Re: Just wait for the 2007 elections

I think all balloting stations should be made electronic, powered by tiny
windmills built into them.


"Rajah Homaba" <rajah_homaba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> aalis na lang ako wrote:
>> i think the best judge will be the next general elections.
>> remember what happened to the Partido ng Masa after the erap incident?
>> gma won hands down in local & national elections.
>> i think the same thing will happen in 2007, the opposition will get
>> majority of the seats and the whole agony cycle will again happen.
>> it is the filipino curse i guess.
>
> Exactly. The cycle will just repeat if we don't change and improve
> the system. We must change and improve the system so that it can best
> counter some of the negative Filipino traits, attitudes, temper, onion
> skin, personality, length of patience, padrino system, palakasan
> system, barkada system, family first system, etc. Like for example in
> campaign finance reform have full public disclosure of all the names of
> campaign financiers and full audit of political parties and candidates,
> money politics doesn't work positively in the Philippines unlike in
> the states I guess, shift to a parliamentary system where there's no
> more hiding in malacanang for the chief executive because the prime
> minister is frequently obliged to debate in parliament discussing
> details of plans for the nation and interrogated daily by opponents
> seen by the public during sessions in parliament, shift to a
> parliamentary system wherein district elections are cheaper no need for
> massive nationwide campaign financing thus having to owe giving favors
> to rich persons and organizations who financed their nationwide
> campaign, and finally have equal representation at the upper house as
> well if we continue with a bicameral system so to at last have equal
> representation of the interests of the provinces or districts in the
> capital, etc. But maybe I think it's so obvious that the system is
> so blatantly flawed that it's still inappropriate to directly blame
> the Filipinos at this point. If the system is at last changed and
> improved then that's the time we can rightfully complain and directly
> blame that it's the Filipinos fault not the system.
>


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