I have seen the bright future of this country in the next ten years. It started its economic reborn from setting its own frontier as the bottom line of the race. For one, is the trust of the domestic investors to the nation's ability to sustain the growth and even face the greater economic challenges despite of the political concerns, as evidenced by establishment of the Asia's largest mall 'Mall of Asia" that boosts tourism and gave a new inspiration of reviving and reconstructing the manila bay area. Secondly, the supersonic growth rate of the ICT and BPO industry in the country, is the indication of a stronger potential market. We all know that creeping economic growth of the country is due to weak demand (due to scarcity of employment, low income), and low productivity is just an aftermath of the foregoing mentioned.  Lastly is the potential of the philippines to be one of the world's most significant player in gaming and tourism. The proposal of the entertainment city is a big leap soon to be for the entire nation, which I believe also a way of setting up an edge and distiction from the rest of the world. 

Philippine economy is yet to reach it's peak.  One indication is the notable unemployed sector, which is the potential production force.  Meaning, fufture develepment can be well sustained by this domestic manpower reserved alone that pays a controllable, compensable and worthy labor price.

But there are some key areas that must be improved such as transportation, communication, energy, and advertising. We need news paper to reach the countryside, we need efficient cellular and radiowaves to reach the countryside, we need  to totaly energize the contryside, and we need to draw people closer the from the contryside, make the world smaller and accessible.

 

 

 

epillora:

I have seen the bright future of this country in the next ten years. It started its economic reborn from setting its own frontier as the bottom line of the race. For one, is the trust of the domestic investors to the nation's ability to sustain the growth and even face the greater economic challenges despite of the political concerns, as evidenced by establishment of the Asia's largest mall 'Mall of Asia" that boosts tourism and gave a new inspiration of reviving and reconstructing the manila bay area. Secondly, the supersonic growth rate of the ICT and BPO industry in the country, is the indication of a stronger potential market. We all know that creeping economic growth of the country is due to weak demand (due to scarcity of employment, low income), and low productivity is just an aftermath of the foregoing mentioned.  Lastly is the potential of the philippines to be one of the world's most significant player in gaming and tourism. The proposal of the entertainment city is a big leap soon to be for the entire nation, which I believe also a way of setting up an edge and distiction from the rest of the world. 

Philippine economy is yet to reach it's peak.  One indication is the notable unemployed sector, which is the potential production force.  Meaning, fufture develepment can be well sustained by this domestic manpower reserved alone that pays a controllable, compensable and worthy labor price.

But there are some key areas that must be improved such as transportation, communication, energy, and advertising. We need news paper to reach the countryside, we need efficient cellular and radiowaves to reach the countryside, we need  to totaly energize the contryside, and we need to draw people closer the from the contryside, make the world smaller and accessible.

The 100 or so ruling families in this country who are hellbent on plundering its natural resources don't employ a whole lot of people BECAUSE YOU DON"T NEED A LOT OF EMPLOYEES TO RAPE PILLAGE AND PLUNDER. That's why unemployment is way high and will remain so unless the NPA can take over and re-distribute the wealth to the people. Executing these leeches by firing squad would be my first objective. 

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Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts.

epillora:

I have seen the bright future of this country in the next ten years. It started its economic reborn from setting its own frontier as the bottom line of the race. For one, is the trust of the domestic investors to the nation's ability to sustain the growth and even face the greater economic challenges despite of the political concerns, as evidenced by establishment of the Asia's largest mall 'Mall of Asia" that boosts tourism and gave a new inspiration of reviving and reconstructing the manila bay area. Secondly, the supersonic growth rate of the ICT and BPO industry in the country, is the indication of a stronger potential market. We all know that creeping economic growth of the country is due to weak demand (due to scarcity of employment, low income), and low productivity is just an aftermath of the foregoing mentioned.  Lastly is the potential of the philippines to be one of the world's most significant player in gaming and tourism. The proposal of the entertainment city is a big leap soon to be for the entire nation, which I believe also a way of setting up an edge and distiction from the rest of the world. 

Philippine economy is yet to reach it's peak.  One indication is the notable unemployed sector, which is the potential production force.  Meaning, fufture develepment can be well sustained by this domestic manpower reserved alone that pays a controllable, compensable and worthy labor price.

But there are some key areas that must be improved such as transportation, communication, energy, and advertising. We need news paper to reach the countryside, we need efficient cellular and radiowaves to reach the countryside, we need  to totaly energize the contryside, and we need to draw people closer the from the contryside, make the world smaller and accessible.

 

 

 

Epillora, are you dreaming or are you fantasising? Wake up my friend, before your dream becomes a nightmare!

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From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli...

the ease for sacrifice is on the ease of thinking, that caused your agony in life!

your agony is by your choice!

epillora:

the ease for sacrifice is on the ease of thinking, that caused your agony in life!

May I ask what type of ganja you are smoking these days?

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Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts.

it is not the joint, just too obsessed with titty....you know what i mean....

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MY COUNTRY PHILIPPINES...............IS MOVING...........ON!

Surely I agree!   But I'd like to add more words.........hope our Kababayan will read this and will post theír views.

.....That I know, despite  of the Growth of the Philippine's Economy, 50-60% of the total population don't feel the improvement within.

a) The Poor Community is suffering. Lack of Social, Health, and Education Fund from the Governtment. 

b)  The Employment Hiring Qualification is overly high viewed....that makes extremely difficult for those low education and grade level.....There is a big discrimination in Employment     Hiring System

c)  Low Salary...(Pls. let's help Those OFW's find a job in Philippines)!. If get to focused on them, we can't count, how many of  those Abusement/Mal-Treated Cases Around the world.

d)  Common-Discrimination in Social Status Standard 

and more...  Some of those who have Entitled Rights of Power, they used their Power to abuse others

...............I live in Abroad and everytime I visited my own Country Philippines,  I came to different Heart Breaking Experiences!

Foreigneers says "Philippines is Beautiful by it's Nature".........I just say "Yes it Is"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives. They are the ones who like to blame the government or other people for their miseries and failures. Sadly, they are also the most vulnerable sector in our society and are usually used by corrupt politicians. The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor. It is very disturbing to see them preaching on TV how hopeless this country has become and how life was much better then than today. Was life much better then for the likes of Binay and Satur Ocampo than today. Even some media personalities who earn six figure salaries now are also guilty of spreading this hopelessness among our people. My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

Cang-ipos:

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives. They are the ones who like to blame the government or other people for their miseries and failures. Sadly, they are also the most vulnerable sector in our society and are usually used by corrupt politicians. The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor. It is very disturbing to see them preaching on TV how hopeless this country has become and how life was much better then than today. Was life much better then for the likes of Binay and Satur Ocampo than today. Even some media personalities who earn six figure salaries now are also guilty of spreading this hopelessness among our people. My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

just get real, stop the corruption and killings then tell me it's not hopeless.....

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We can see the progress of Philippine's Economy, but The Poverty is wide-range..

I hope the Corrupt Politicians will be executed and The Government Corruption will be tolerated in the future!

I hope our people will focused on achieving their dreams of bright future.

I hope the family planning will be strictly imposed by the Legislation

I hope the Couple and Children are in helping hand in making money to support for the family, enough of too much children and non-working wife....most of the family has only one or two members working to support the entire 8 members in the family

I hope the Students will focused on getting Degree......most of the youngsters of today's dream are to be TV Personalities (Movie Stars), some thinks of Entertainments (ending up in Pub and Bars or Night Club Dancers)............too much prostitutions in Abroad!

We have all the guts (Beauty, Brain, Talents) to make a brighter future and to change the world we are living in!

Let's Support the Bright Future Among Filipinos!!!!!!!

Hope is good, the best next thing is to do something...

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prince:

just get real, stop the corruption and killings then tell me it's not hopeless.....

 

The reality is many are hopeless because they want to solve the problems which they have less or no control at all.

The sad part is that even those who have tremendously benefitted from the improvement in our economy (since the Marcos years) like church and the media are also indirectly involved in propagating this idea of hopelessness. But the saddest part is that they made a lot of money doing this.

stop the b.itching and get your a.ss to work... people are poor coz they are lazy and they don't study hard when given a chance to go to school. corruption isn't the only problem we have but the mentality and the laziness.

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is it the government? is it the system? or is it the wowowee mentality??

lemuelskee:

stop the b.itching and get your a.ss to work... people are poor coz they are lazy and they don't study hard when given a chance to go to school. corruption isn't the only problem we have but the mentality and the laziness.

how about those people from the slum areas, they never had the chance or opportunities....

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meandhk:

We can see the progress of Philippine's Economy, but The Poverty is wide-range..

I hope the Corrupt Politicians will be executed and The Government Corruption will be tolerated in the future!

I hope our people will focused on achieving their dreams of bright future.

I hope the family planning will be strictly imposed by the Legislation

I hope the Couple and Children are in helping hand in making money to support for the family, enough of too much children and non-working wife....most of the family has only one or two members working to support the entire 8 members in the family

I hope the Students will focused on getting Degree......most of the youngsters of today's dream are to be TV Personalities (Movie Stars), some thinks of Entertainments (ending up in Pub and Bars or Night Club Dancers)............too much prostitutions in Abroad!

We have all the guts (Beauty, Brain, Talents) to make a brighter future and to change the world we are living in!

Let's Support the Bright Future Among Filipinos!!!!!!!

Amen to everything that you said brother!

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Cang-ipos:

There are basically two types of Filipinos who'll say that the Philippines is hopeless. The first are those who are simply clueless on how to uplift their lives.... The second type are those who actually know that there are indeed opportunities in this country but just want to keep those for themselves. They are those who wants the poor to remain poor coz they know that a lot of money can be made by using the poor....My country is not hopeless coz I am not.

 
amen to that.

whether or not philippines is improving, you'll still end up poor if you do nothing.  it's not (purely) the Philippine economy that will uplift you from your current financial state.  it still depends on how you run your life.  so... get your ass moving!

 the second type, well, they are just simply despicable!

the Philippines may be moving on, but the government aint actually doing that much to help at least the poorest of the poor move on..

The middle class in our country is gone. They are now OFWs somewhere else supporting their families left behind or trying to get them out of the country to join them overseas. So who is left behind? Only the very poor and the very wealthy. Is there hope? Most definitely yes. We face many problems such as a terrible peace and order situation with rebel groups or wannabe rebels like the NPA, JI and ASG running rampant in the countryside, widespread and systemic corruption in our government, an education system that's falling apart, etc. We can't have an economy dependent on OFW dollar remittances since this enterprise model is not sustainable and a recipe for eventual disaster.

The only way we can have hope for the future is to encourage our middle class (our OFWs) to return by offering them comparable salaries here so they can help us rebuild our country and, incidentally, mitigate the social dislocation that's happening now with a generation of children growing up without parents to guide and nurture them. Here are my suggestions:

1) Amend protectionist laws in our constitution that emphasize "Filipino first" in business practices. I am referring to articles 12 & 16. These obsolete and antiquated provisions have spawned monopolies (no doubt benefiting the 100 or so ruling families) that are unresponsive to Filipino consumers due to the lack of competition (for instance in insurance, shipping, banking, utilities, rice and corn production) and foster an anti-business atmosphere in our country.

2) Create financial incentives and tax breaks for foreign and local businesses who want to invest in our country by building factories and heavy industries that create jobs for ordinary Filipinos - jobs that are long-term, well-paid and provide good medical/dental benefits.

3) Exterminate the NPA, JI, ASG and other wannabe rebel/bandit groups once and for all, build infrastructure (roads, airports and seaports) in former rebel-controlled areas to encourage businesses to relocate to the countryside. This eliminates the groups that collect revolutionary taxes from our businessmen.

4) An important step is to minimize or eliminate corruption in our government agencies that issue permits to businesses to make it easier and faster for them without need to resort to bribes. How can we accomplish this? By having a local ombudsman in every government office that deals with the public who has the power to investigate complaints made against government employees and prosecute them. First offense merits suspension while second and subsequent ones merits removal from service or criminal prosecution.

5) Finally, we come to education. We really need to improve our schools curriculum to produce workers that local employers need and can hire. It would be necessary for businesses and DECS to work together to come up with specific changes to our school system and more funding for different tailor-made vocational programs.

We need to do away with the "every man for himself" attitude because we all have to work together to accomplish these positive goals. If we can work together, I believe a glimmer of genuine hope is possible on the horizon. On the other hand, doing nothing about the very real problems that challenge us means we are clinging to a false and empty hope.

If you have any comments and constructive suggestions, please feel free to share.

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Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts.

epillora:

I have seen the bright future of this country in the next ten years. It started its economic reborn from setting its own frontier as the bottom line of the race. For one, is the trust of the domestic investors to the nation's ability to sustain the growth and even face the greater economic challenges despite of the political concerns, as evidenced by establishment of the Asia's largest mall 'Mall of Asia" that boosts tourism and gave a new inspiration of reviving and reconstructing the manila bay area. Secondly, the supersonic growth rate of the ICT and BPO industry in the country, is the indication of a stronger potential market. We all know that creeping economic growth of the country is due to weak demand (due to scarcity of employment, low income), and low productivity is just an aftermath of the foregoing mentioned.  Lastly is the potential of the philippines to be one of the world's most significant player in gaming and tourism. The proposal of the entertainment city is a big leap soon to be for the entire nation, which I believe also a way of setting up an edge and distiction from the rest of the world. 

Philippine economy is yet to reach it's peak.  One indication is the notable unemployed sector, which is the potential production force.  Meaning, fufture develepment can be well sustained by this domestic manpower reserved alone that pays a controllable, compensable and worthy labor price.

But there are some key areas that must be improved such as transportation, communication, energy, and advertising. We need news paper to reach the countryside, we need efficient cellular and radiowaves to reach the countryside, we need  to totaly energize the contryside, and we need to draw people closer the from the contryside, make the world smaller and accessible.

 
 

Nice ideas.  However, you're ideas are so full of consumerism.  Mall of Asia?  ICT & BPO?  Gaming?  These types of economic drivers are fleeting and largely dependent on external influences.  The minute the global outlook takes a nosedive, a consumer economy will be the first to go down.  I say that we need to put all our efforts to developing our agriculture and manufacturing and technology sectors instead.  Our reliance on imported equipment is very evident when you look at a business' investment dollars: a large fraction is spent on equipment.  Imagine if the Philippines is instead a major equipment manufacturer and exporter, like Taiwan?  What if we can make our own pumps, motors and engines?  This way we become the primary user of our own metal resources, and engineers too, not some other country.  What if we become a major exporter of rice and corn and other agri products in Asia?  This way we are the producers, not the consumers.  I'm not saying that we pull out all support on consumer products, but the way I see it, as evidenced by the country's GNP, consumerism takes a large piece of the pie, which is not good in the long run.

In order for the economy to truly move on, the government also has to do its part in putting up the necessary infrastructure for business growth.  We need those farm-to-market roads, and like what you said, the energization of the whole countryside.   We need  airports and seaports.  We need effective agricultural subsidies to help the farmer, because there is no denying the fact start up cash is a major problem of farmers. 

 The government needs to resolve the MILF and MNLF debacles first before business can flourish in Mindanao.  I believe that prosperity follows peace, and therefore all efforts must be spent in securing a peaceful Mindanao.  A  progressive Mindanao will ease off the pressure that Luzon experiences and therefore results to a better economic outlook for all.