Is our country becoming a welfare state: so many ayuda programs

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Too many welfare programs.  Is our country becoming a welfare state.?   Are we building a country of dependents of entitled  individuals?  Why would they work if they can get something from the govt.  Gone are the days of sariling sikap and hard work?

Who will shoulder the burden of paying taxes.

JFKs advice of:   "Ask not what the country can do for you;  ask what you can do for your country? "  Are many beneficiaries of ayuda awarse of this?  Nothing in the world is free.   And yet that is reenforced in their brains which they will probably pass on to their children.      

Welfare mendicancy bad for government budget debt

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Most of those being interviewed prior to Sona sish more ayuda and help and yet we have fewer taxpayers, and govt debt has been ballooning.  That is bad for the civic duty we are all promoting:   " Ask what you can do  for the country not what the country can do for you. " Many of our citizens expect more ayuda, rather than being able to help ie to contribute to govt coffers

Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan

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From Good reads - from JFK - Victory  has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan


Remembering this, as we grew and as businessmen, we tried very hard to survive, thrive and win.  Knowing that if we lose or fail, the government, the public will not mourn for us nor even help us get up.   While the govt rakes in 44% of your revenues, the people there will not even blink nor miss you if you close or go bankrupt.  That is the reality.

That is why you try your very best not to fail.

If the business is closed, we pay the separation pay and probably we help workers get a new job.  There is nothing weird about a Senator saying that workers should look for a new job.   It happens to everyone, not only to the media giant. 

Here we see a giant media company, having failed to get govt nod, or even assistance, muster public support to get them to have a franchise again.  What used to be a private affair, a private business, becomes a public domain and becomes a political issue.   What are they trying to do.

We were talking to someone whose neighbor are from the media giant.  The culture of better than thou, or more powerful than  you is commonly observed

And the thing is they have their plan A to D in place    They are now broadcasting, using various digital means:    FB, You tube etc. 

We are sure they have capable management to steer them through their crisis.   That is part of doing business -  the legal environment can put you out of business that is why it is paramount for every business to be compliant.  Every business student knows that.  Unless you think you have all legal aspects all sewed up and are at the tip of fingers.

The pasaway in the society will make it difficult for government to solve traffic woes

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Rizal Philippines
May 6, 2017

                                           More training needed?

                                         Ano ba talaga  ang stand sa tricycle at the major roads?

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for your country"  JFK

No amount of infrastructures, govt spending of tax payers money can solve our traffic woes. It would help, but unless the governed follows the leaders and managers, improvements will be minuscule.  There has to be a radical sense of civic consciousness and follower ship among our citizenry

We noted that during the past administration and even now, a lot of road widening is going on, and yet traffic is still not improving:

What are the causes:

1.  Illegal parking on roads that have been widened.  For example the roads at floodway has been widened to 4 or even 6 lanes.  And yet obstruction abound:   trucks, tricycle, vans repairs on the roadside, road being use for business.  For the obstruction removal team, they had to bring security force armed to the teeth to enforce the towing of illegally parked vehicles. Force has to be used.

2.  Non observance of traffic rules:

     1. Tricycles which are not supposed to be on the highway are still there and to top it all, Lord it over:   not observing speed limits, swerving, not observing proper stops;  they also obstruct roads at intersection

    2.  Balagbag loading and unloading by jeeps and other PUV.  We are glad AUVs behave differently

    3,  Counterflow where it is not allowed.  Especially by AUVs hurrying to get more runs, and MC. Whew.  A lot of accidents do happen from this practice.

   4.  Illegal overtaking by MC from the right.  They jam the street and do not observe traffic rules, nor the MC lane

   5 MC drivers do not seem to know traffic rules and safety.  Is LTO is amiss in instilling discipline and sense of order among new drivers.  Nabibili ba ang exam?

3. Ill trained traffic enforcers and PUSO:

   1.  They over ride the programming of traffic lights;

   2.  They seem to be traffic enforcers for the subdivision or block giving priority to motorists exiting a block or a subdivision

  3. Not to mention their proclivity to fleece motorists and drivers;

  4  Priority of traffic lights are to be:  going to office in the morning, and going home in the afternoon or evening  Does that happen

  Some of them used to be campaign managers for the mayor or councilor or x utility men.  Who will spend for their training   A lot can be gained if they were trained.

11 lessons from Robert McNamara former US Secy of Defense during Vietnam war.

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Rizal Philippines   |   September 20, 2014



The Star Movies at cable tv featured War Foggies which featured Robert Mcnamara, former President  of Ford, former Secy of Defense during the time of Pres John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson

He was more known as the architect of Vietnam war.  He seemed to be have influenced by the thinking of General Ley of the Air Corps (Force) during World War 2.  McNamara was part of the statistical team who analyzed the stats of the bombing runs of the Air Corps.  Ley emphasized efficiency (not in terms of number of enemies - civilian and military target) but in weakening the adversary.  Here the lesson of proportionality was applied.

The mob behind the JFK assassination?

From Crime LIbrary

Spartacus school.net

I watched the crime and investigation feature on the Kennedy assassination.  It is the golden anniversary of the JFK killing.  He was shot on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.

The theory of Crime and Investigation was that the killing was hatched by a mob leader Carlos Marcello, after Bob Kennedy, the US Attorney General then, worked for his deportation. The turning point came after Marcello was kidnapped and released in a Guatamelan jungle.  It was alleged that the mob leader wanted a revenge and it was personal.

And then JFK was shot.  Jack Ruby, the guy who shot the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had strong connection to the mob.

The Warren commission did not mention of this conspiracy in its report.

And then Bob Kennedy, who ran for Senator was shot by Sirhan Sirhan.  And the Kennedy days were over.

Carlos Marcelo eventually was jailed for attacking an FBI agent, and he was weakened by his stay in prison. His alleged part in the JFK and RFK assassination was never known with his death.

What is your theory on the JFK assassination?






                    

Land of the free (or the responsible?)

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Free dom has acquired  a new meaning;  so has "land of the free" in a national anthem.  It is more like the free of Chris Anderson.

Many citizens see that it is their right to expect to get free from the state.  The state is compelled to borrow massively to finance this culture of "free" entitlement.  State has to borrow massively to give free livelihood, food and the like to its citizen.  Result?

In the PHL, the free culture forces many politicians to have jueteng and many fund raising projects to fund/finance the need of their constituents  for free.  So you cant really abolish PDAF or jueteng.  No legislation can do that.

I saw how overpowering this idea of "free " is .  The homemaker did not arrive this morning to do the laundry, because she has to fall in line for a free from the LGU for the flood victims.  She missed a handsome pay for the day in favor of a measly free goods!

Unless our citizens subscribe to the mental model asked for by fmr President JFK  "Ask not what your country can do for you, not what your country can for you."

It is not about freedom, it is about responsibility

Culture of Entitlement is a troubling culture

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The late Pres. John F Kennedy, the last of the Camelots, used to say "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

But watching the TV shows, various citizens of the world, faced with severe economic challenges continue  to:  stage protests and rallies, rantings, ask for more wages (as what food servers did in NY recently.  ) Rather than think of things, or act to dampen the impact of the economic crisis, they continue to outstretch their hands for more crumbs from the govt.   When the Koreans had financial crisis in 1997, many pooled their jewelry to help pay for the Korean govt debt.  Can we do that?  Can we follow the JFK missive?  Or this is just one romantic quote to be shelved in literary archives or book of quotes?

Really, maybe US or Europe get into the mess because they continually ask what their country can do for them, rather than the reverse.