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Filipina Soul » Bloggers Chronicle Typhoon Xangsane — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:03:34 +0000

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By: antonio walanglaban

antonio walanglaban — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:56:57 +0000

BSF, i know what you mean about old farts. especially those who talk like gas was free back in the day.

By: Boyspacefriend

Boyspacefriend — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:38:56 +0000

Antonio, the tuition revision is actually being most loudly opposed by the leftist parties. Surprisingly, we haven’t heard a peep from those “most affected” by the proposal (those car-driving students in CBA and SE). Most people agree that socialized tuition in UP as it stands now is a joke and needs to be fixed for a more appropriate burden-sharing.

As for the globetrotting shot, my apologies for pouncing on it. I usually react like that to “old fart” comments – proof that youth lacks wisdom in my case.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:00:53 +0000

Antonio, There are over 100 state universities and colleges in the Philippines. Metro-Manila also has PUP/Polytechnic Univ of the Philippines (graduates include Satur Ocampo, Eddie Villanueva, Richard Gomez, Carlos Padilla).

By: antonio walanglaban

antonio walanglaban — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:31:11 +0000

I absolutely agree with you boyspace friend. except for that last shot. the fact that we weren’t globetrotters doesn’t mean squat, really. just mentioned it as a point of comparison. i’m sorry you got the wrong idea from it. As for that tuition revision proposal, I suppose the rich kids aren’t opposing it?

By: UP student

UP student — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:31:36 +0000

Cath… thanks for the info. And I like that — budget-trips — I’ll look at your blogspot.

Amadeo…thanks for the invite. I suppose I should have guessed you may be US-based when you jumped on “blaming the World Bank for third-world ailments”. Is Hugo Chavez still giving away free heating oil to poor folks in New York City? Talk about using the nation’s treasury at your people’s expense for “pogi points”. Can you imagine GMA giving away free Palawan natural gas to Singapore?

Antonio… I’m a part-time programmer, too. Gotta work, gotta work, gotta work!!!

By: cvj

cvj — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:52:38 +0000

John, kudos for calling out Arroyo on her 0% unemployment rate promise. That plus her more recent statements on becoming ‘Second World’ makes me doubt her credentials as an economist. Every self-respecting economist is aware that there is a minimum rate of unemployment below which the economy would experience a substantial increase in inflation. (There is disagreement on whether this rate is constant over time.)

The Manila Standard article linked to above shows Gloria Arroyo demonstrating what she does best – taking undeserved credit and making false promises. When it comes to the USD 1,400 per capita income, every administration since Cory can claim credit for this since this has been a cumulative achievement. As for reaching ‘First World’ status by 2020, this means achieving a GDP per capita of USD 15,000 which means that per capita GDP has to grow in excess of 18% per year, a feat that not even China has achieved. To eliminate poverty by that time frame requires that, in addition to achieving the above growth rate, she also addresses income inequality – the economic equivalent of defying gravity. China’s spectacular growth since 1978 has been at the expense of rising inequality. The only value of her pronouncements is that it gives us some clue on how long she plans to stay on as President (or Prime Minister).

By: Boyspacefriend

Boyspacefriend — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:52:19 +0000

antonio walanglaban, I always thought the best thing about UP was being able to encounter all kinds of Filipinos from different backgrounds. It’s what makes it unique and truly representative of the country. Asking rich kids to all go to Ateneo is just one more way of exacerbating the divisions between classes instead of bringing them together. Much better is the tuition revision proposal to ask upper and middle class students to shoulder the real cost of their education in UP, to allow the University to subsidise more deserving but less well-off students.

Just because “back then” you weren’t a globetrotting lot doesn’t mean that UP students now should have their horizons diminished by such parochialism.

By: comelecAKO

comelecAKO — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:14:29 +0000

tama ka, john. this government shouldn’t engender expectations it can’t live up to. but, just to clarify, where was it actually said that the million jobs would be in government? i think a more accurate interpretation of that campaign promise is that arroyo would create conditions conducive for job creation. although, of course, i don’t see any such conditions existing today. so, palpak nga and like I said, government shouldn’t engender expectations it can’t live up to.