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  1. Join Date
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    #81
    Quote Originally Posted by jpdm View Post
    Then, why are you complaining about the unfriendliness of government towards business?

    What you have mentioned are the reasons why government is unfriendly to businesses that do not have connections...

    and...if fact you are justifying it...

    Kung anong tinanim yun ang aanihin...

    Thats why Im fighting about a fair game. If we dont tolerate it...perhaps we can create a business-friendly environment with no wheeling and dealing...a free market without greedy and corrupt oligopolies and monopolies...
    I never complained about the uneven playing field.

    I never complained about the beneficial co-existence of big business and government.

    I see that as the given environment.

    And it's up to me to learn how to survive in the given environment.

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    #82
    i see two faces here:

    one who complains and could lead to anarchy (protests, demands, unite against another)

    one who has become insensitive and distrustful and could also lead to silent anarchy (cynicism, every man for himself, if you can't beat em, join em)

    both are characterized by some form of disappointment directed against another entity (govt. or corporations)

    why not just try a third option?

    maybe it will work. i dont know how to describe the 3rd option. but it maybe something like this .... "stop complaining/blaming and also dont stop losing faith in people".

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    #83
    Quote Originally Posted by Gen. Miting View Post
    i see two faces here:

    one who complains and could lead to anarchy (protests, demands, unite against another)
    *Gen. Miting

    It doesnt mean when a person complains it will lead to anarchy.

    When you complain about something do you have to violate certain rules say, ruin peace and order in your place? No.

    Anarchy only comes if protests and complains are not done properly. There's alot of channels that can be use.

    So, if you are referring to me, pardon me, I complain because I want to see a society not in anarchy (survival of the fittest mode)but in order so inequality and inequity is minimized if not eradicated.

    one who has become insensitive and distrustful and could also lead to silent anarchy (cynicism, every man for himself, if you can't beat em, join em)
    maybe.


    both are characterized by some form of disappointment directed against another entity (govt. or corporations)
    Correct.

    why not just try a third option?
    puede.

    maybe it will work. i dont know how to describe the 3rd option. but it maybe something like this .... "stop complaining/blaming and also dont stop losing faith in people".
    you can complain but at the same work and offer a solution..

    If you cant beat them join them (adapt)is not a good option.
    Last edited by jpdm; November 9th, 2008 at 10:45 PM.

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    #84
    Here's how you scare away investors:

    HK investors demand Philippines respects property rights
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...cyLqSau7DMWDAQ

    HONG KONG (AFP) — A group of Hong Kong property investors will this week ramp up their campaign against what they call a land-grab by the Philippine government on the holiday island of Boracay, a report said Sunday.

    The group will hold a press conference in Hong Kong Monday to draw attention to their ongoing battle to overturn a 2006 proclamation by the Philippine government that the entire island belongs to the state, the Sunday Morning Post reported.

    The law has meant people who own some of the property in Boracay have been ordered to reapply to purchase their land. Many have owned their properties for many years, the report said.

    "It's very unfair," said Stephen Arseno, a lawyer and landowner who has been fighting the government's move in the courts, according to the Post.

    "This is an international issue because there are so many foreigners invested in Boracay. The Philippines does not want a reputation for being a place where property rights are not respected."

    The move comes as residents are increasingly concerned about the growing level of lawlessness on the island, which draws half a million tourists each year to its spectacular beaches, more than one sixth of tourist visitors to the Philippines.

    Last week, armed men forced their way into one of the island's resorts, holding the Australian owner and his family captive amid a property dispute, the owner told AFP.
    http://news.smh.com.au/world/aussies...1106-5j7w.html

    Aussies 'held captive' in Philippines
    November 6, 2008 - 5:25PM

    The Australian owner of a luxury resort in the Philippines says he and his family are being held captive by a band of armed thugs.

    Australian Greg Hutchinson said about a dozen "thugs" brandishing automatic weapons entered the grounds of the SandCastles resort on Boracay island on Wednesday night, forcing staff and guests to flee.

    Speaking by phone, Hutchinson said he and his family are being held captive in their apartment next to the resort.

    "We were in our third-floor apartment when they barged in wearing ski masks and forced our guests and staff to leave," Hutchinson said.

    "As far as I know no shots were fired but they terrified the hell out of the staff and guests."

    He said electricity and telephone connections to his apartment, which is next to the resort, have been cut and the emergency exit blocked with an industrial gas cylinder.

    "It's terrifying for my wife, Viveca, and five-year-old twins," Hutchinson said.

    Hutchinson, who helped build Boracay into a world-renowned beach resort, said he'd been the victim of an organised campaign to force him out of Boracay.

    "When we opened SandCastles in 1989 there were just 10 resorts here ... now there are over 100," he said.

    "This type of intimidation has been going on for three years. We thought it had stopped," he said.

    "This is the way things are done in the Philippines.

    "There are certain elements in the country who wait until you develop something, make a success of it and then they move in and force you out so they can reap the rewards."

    The current dispute is over Hutchinson's 30-year lease, which still has 11 years to run.

    Boracay police chief Colonel Arnold Ardiente said he had offered Hutchinson and his family safe passage out of the resort but they refused to leave and were waiting for their lawyer.

    "It is a civil dispute," he said, denying there were any armed thugs on the premises.

    "Police and security guards had been at the resort all night," he said.

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    #85
    Re: financial crisis

    It's gonna get worse for the Philippines

    http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.p...tid=23:topnews

    In a paper titled “Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Developing Countries” released at the G-20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting in São Paulo, Brazil, over the weekend, the World Bank said that since September this year, financial conditions have become tighter, causing the crisis to worsen.

    The bank estimates that with a one-percentage-point reduction in growth, around 20 million more people will be thrust into poverty. In the Philippines, 20 million people translates into 4 million households, with an average size of five per household.

    “Many developing countries are moving into a new danger zone, with heightened risk to exports, investment, credit, banking systems, budgets, the balance of payments and the most vulnerable [populations],” the World Bank said.

    “Countries dependent on exports, remittances or foreign investment, exhibiting high current-account deficits or rising inflation, and those with extensive fuel or food subsidies are most vulnerable to a sharp slowdown—especially if accompanied by a significant tightening of financial- market conditions,” the bank added.

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    Headlines

    Philippine Star

    OFW hiring in Taiwan, South Korea slows down

    By Mayen Jaymalin

    Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    Filipino factory workers could be the first casualties of the global economic crisis.


    The local recruitment industry yesterday reported a slowdown in the hiring of Filipino factory workers in Taiwan and South Korea and the downtrend is expected to continue in the coming year.


    Jackson Gan, Federated Association of Manpower Exporters (FAME) vice president, said commercial firms in Taiwan already notified the industry of a possible freeze in hiring of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) next year.
    Its hitting our neighbors but it hurts us most especially our OFWs..

    Goodbye remittances...

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    #87
    not surprising.

    Nobody is immune to the global economic slowdown.

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    #88
    I hope those people who were blesses with remittances in the past years knew how to save instead of spend. If they don't have savings they are in trouble.

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    #89

    Cash Is King, especially in the current situation....

    7000:diver:

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    #90
    yep

    cash is king

    stay liquid

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