As happiness is the ultimate goal of human beings, development paradigm needs a rethinking. Development goal is not only an economic prosperity – which is only a material mean for happiness, but development should also be conceptualized as an instrumental goal of happiness. Higher levels of human happiness involve other factors such as physical, mental, social and spiritual happiness. PUBLIC POLICY, therefore, plays a key role to improve conditions of happiness at all levels of people in the society. It is therefore important for policy makers to design a policy scheme to increase social happiness that measures the quality of life, or address the conditions of human’s physical and emotional well-being. Is our current policy makers addressing this issue to take happiness as a goal and the local operated concept of “sufficiency economy” . Would they be committed?

The way i understand our current policy makers is they don’t care how much we know, until they know how much we care.
I don’t think they can decide on their own. parang sila ang mga bata. basta maraming utang, masakit ang ulo.

http://batangbaler.net/a-case-of-an-earthquake-in-baler-that-was-predicted-accurately/

The story is here, it involves Chinese scientists and something called Crustal Stress Analysis:

http://www.globalwatch.org/ungp/cscan_quake_catch_050616.htm

They think most pinoys are as stupid as they are. They are now claiming that they put up new power plants without government guarantees. But with take or pay provisions with a company called Meralco who by the way was given by Juan de la Cruz through his so called Congress a government guaranteed franchise area excusively for Merlaco. The largest in the country.

So they piggy backed their investment on that and now they want everyone to know that wala daw government guarantee. Apart form the generation charge Meralco has to pay capacity fee, (to cover depreciation costs), maintenance, fuels costs to these private IPPs.

The relationship between these IPP’s and Meralco are a seamless integrated process all anchored by a government guaranteed monopoly.

Yet Juan de la Cruz is kept in the dark after giving all these privileges to a private entity.

Business and government should be natural adversaries based on promoting the collective good. Oscar and his family wants us to belive in his charity. I believe in his greed but there is no one to make sure he knows his place in the scheme of things. His job is to push the envelope for himself and the other stockholders. Who do we have that can push back. For that to begin to happen everything must be in the open.

The theoretical basis for open cometition that will lead to efficiencies rests in the easy entry and exit of many companies into this type of business.

In a third world economy that is a net importer of capital medio mahirap gawin yun without state participation. Paano magiging exclusively private ito?

The head of bank of America recently castigated the Federal authorites for bailing out Wall Street’s investmnet banks. His said that markets should have been allowed to do their own clean -up.

That way the people who would be affected would go out and demand that Wall Street bankers be tared and feathered instead of getting golden parachutes.

Matira and matibay. The financial services sector in the U.S. today accounts for 20% of U.S. GDP. The manufacturing sector only accounts for 12%.

You want open and free competition, markets must be allowed to operate and risks premium naturally will be added to the price structure. That would mean high prices. The other choice is to come clean and simply let effective government take over.

So much for theory when in practice it still remains for Juan de la Cruz to bear the burden.

PM plans to stand before the Canadian People on June 11 and Apologize for the Abuse at the mandatory Aboriginal Residential Schools funded by the Government and Run by the Church to “Christianize” the Natives in the 50s…

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/425826

How come kailangan natin ng alarm clock palagi para maging vigilant.Isn’t that an oxymoron, pero para ka naman magiging vigilant kung tulog ka?

Epira has been there since 2001,somebody barked so now everyone is so vigilant,including the law makers proposing to ammend it. Pati yung mga agrabyado sa GSIS bigla ding gumising.

It is the same with our attitudes with repairs, it is either you:

1) Don’t Repair
2) Repair When Broken
3) Eliminate repair by upgrade
4) Predict when to repair
5) Prevent repair

to most of us,why fix it when it aint broke.

This has a relation to the power topic, remember those power plants?

Troops sent to repair quake-hit Chinese dam

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/14/chinaearthquake.china?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

But a more scary study is this:

Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF14/1465.html

So those giant dams can cause earthquakes?

Per capita income is related to suicide rates in men but not in women

* i won’t argue with statistics,but with the conclusion of:

Socioeconomic improvements are needed to reduce suicide rates.

Well, got to consider the fact that this study was for european countries,but imho anyone can commit suicide ;rich or poor.

Do you have East Asian data on per capita income vs suicides ,UPN?