Once again student activism is alive at the University of the Philippines (UP) because of the ZTE broadband scandal and all. There is nothing wrong with expressing one’s opinion and taking it to the streets. My only caveat with this is that students taking their studies at a state university should have some shame in joining any protest towards the same state that is paying for their schooling.
If the government were to have some sense, they should just stop spending anymore money into schools with ungrateful pupils. If the students don’t like the comparatively low tuition fee they are already getting, then they should just look for another school.
As the old saying goes “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
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I think you're missing the point. These students are not protesting againts the institution but the people who govern and abuse their powers. The more that they should be vigilant on these kinds of leaders to sustain their being state-sponsored students.
To be more precise, it is the people's money that is paying for the education of the "iskolar ng bayan." If there's anybody that they should be beholden to, it is not the govenment that is peopled by abusive and corrupt officials. Rather it is the common tao - the peasant and the working class, the urban poor, etc.
Anyway, you don't need to suggest that. The government is already abandoning the public education sector. Last year, the University of the Philippines increased tuition by as high as 300% and thus making education, supposedly a basic right, more inaccessible to the poor but deserving Filipino youth.
Instead of the protesting students, it is the Arroyo government who should be ashamed of itself. Prioritizing scrupolous deals like the NBN-ZTE and other shenanigans over its constitutional responsibility to subsidize education.
(continuation) ...is a disservice to the Filipino people. To the Arroyo-led government: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!”
Syempre, self-proclqaimed matatalino daw sila at sila lang makabayan dyan sa UP. But in TRUTH, mga boblatz sila dahil Komunista komunista sila e failed ideology naman yun!
Jun Lozada Puro RHETORICS, no concrete things other than hearsays, innuendos and worse, GOSSIP.
Everyone aspires for what you said, but lets all be practical. A stable country that does not give in to the caprices of the mob and worse the COMMUNIST AND GODLESS Leftists should be the way.
Let's all not believe in 30 seconds to a minute of media newscasts with a bias SLANT, an indepth discussion and a real hard look at WHO is saying and investigating should be the way.
Sabi nga ni Lozada Takot daw syang Ma-Dacer (bobby), But who is really behind the murder of Dacer nga ba? Di ba it is the same people whom he is cavorting now. Pansin nyo ba yung sinasabi nya nung una nyang testimony noon at ngayon, MAGKAIBA NA ang ibang detalye. Para syang di susi. He's an emotional wreck trying his personal issues to play with the entire country hostage.
We don't need another hero. What we need is stability. Take away the manufactured Political Noise, everything is normal naman.People should watch CNN and BBC more,we are a country better off than others. That we should be thankful to the Lord. Spare us the Godless Leftists who now uses God and Freedom when if given the chance to govern, those very same God and Freedoms we enjoy they would take away.
Sinasakyan lahat ng isyu ng mga Leftists Communists. The political arm of the Communist party of the Philippines. Their military arm btw is the NPA. sowing terror in the countrysides. Wag kayong magpagoyo. yan ang tunay na KATOTOHANAN.
Lastly, bakit ang bilis magjudge ng mga tao dito, kala ko ba Catholic. Didn't your religion teach you to not judge a person easily.
Kung sa judgement din lang, si Erap napatunayang nagkasala sa hukuman, naconvict, nakulong, pero yun pa ang di nyo i condemn..
Thanks anonymous, postcardheadlines and pilipinas,umasenso ka! for leaving a comment. I appreciate it.
My post is not trying to say that its bad to cry foul. Its just that we've seen for the longest time that rallies do not do anything. Corruption is the result of little corruptions down the so many levels of bureaucracy in the government. In the real world, when there would be a bidding anomaly in the purchasing department, the guy who is scooted out is the purchasing manager. Its not the CEO. Even if you take out the CEO, chances are the next one will be just as bad.
I suggest to focus our efforts at the barangay level, specifically people voted to the barangay. Technically the salaries of the people there are just slightly above minimum wage or not even minimum wage. But why do you think so many persons want to involve themselves in the barangay?
Better yet, I suggest that we take out the barangay. They don't really add any value to our daily lives anyway. They are actually doing what the people at the city level (i.e. Mayor, Vice-Mayor, etc.) should be doing or are already doing. We can only have so many basketball courts in the country. Did you know that each barangay is allotted as much as PHP 25M each as their annual budget? Multiply that by the 14,000 barangays we have in our country and that's a lot of money that could be used instead to deal with poverty and education needs.
Ours is such a small country but we have almost as large a bureaucracy as that of the US. If we are to cry foul, we need not go too far. Just look at your neighborhood barangay representatives.
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