Misleading illogical political ads.

It is more fun criticizing

This post begs to disagree with the assumptions of the statements for the  political ads:  " Äyusin ang gobyerno aayos ang buhay mo" That is the thesis of every leaders in convincing the population to vote for him/her.    It has not been necessarily true.  In search of such pag ayos the present administration is embroiled in ej, in its drive to purge the country of drugs.   There are always collateral damages and unwanted results.

Now it is the obligation of people to take charge of their families not the government.   Such a utopian society is the socialist dream    The govt can not handle it all.  The govt is only as good as its citizenry.  Thus ask what you can do for the country, not the other way around rings true.  And only a demagogue can say that she he will take care of jobs and/or provide jobs.   

The politicians must present more pragmatic and down to earth picture of their vision.  Not the impossible dream.  Not the trite motherhood statement.   That is why they fall short or we cant judge their success for such unSMART vague statements

That is why politicians have acquired such a bad name among the populace..  So they would rtaher take the money...

Can politicians really deliver promise to save citizens from poverty?

Social and political criticisms

Rizal PHL  May 17, 2013

The election is over and looking back the winners won on slogans of protecting the poor, and lifting them from poverty.

The leading senatorial lady elect candidate just did that -  promising to take care of the poor.  How noble and how stately promises.

But can they really do it?

Erap went for motto, "Erap para sa mahihirap" and easily won.

But poverty is a complex situation in life.  The government is not equipped to solve the personal problems of citizens.  The responsibility to exist and survive and be successful belongs to the individual and not government.

To pretend that the public sector leadership can solve the problem is a deception if not an outright lie. Yet many are gullible enough to believe.

If we are to solve poverty through  budgets and social welfare legislature, then we simply defer the inevitable and states are ill equipped to administer dole outs and social welfare.   There is simply too little resources to feed millions of hungry mouths.  If at all activists hate and wants to remove politics of patronage.  Ie the feudal landlord relationships, where feudal landlords dictate the lives of their fiefdom.  Nothing is achieved to repair/recast the system and the whole cycle of poverty remains.

In European countries and USA, the socialist leaning of governments to fight poverty through state welfare, without corresponding productive and adaptive capabilities has resulted in financial bankruptcies of states.  Their governments borrowed heavily to fund social programs:   health, education and welfare, resulting in massive billions of debt that governments can not hope to pay.

Even more so, how can you not charge taxes and still finance the social welfare, and/or service the huge debts?

The other alternative/options would be to fund this from:   PCSO, lotto, or contributions by contractors, lobbyists, other vested interests,  and /or jueteng.  And eventually, the politician would be labelled as corrupt.

Are the promises too simplistic, not well understood by those who mouthed them, or they just took the gamble. 

At the end of the day, they would be unable to keep their promises and be junked later in the next election