Comments on: utang na loob http://stuartsantiago.com/utang-na-loob/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TonGuE-tWisTeD http://stuartsantiago.com/utang-na-loob/#comment-301 TonGuE-tWisTeD Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:06 +0000 http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=125#comment-301 Do these big lenders give the president of a country incentives or commissions for paying early? Gloria says we need to take advantage of the strong peso by retiring most of our debts earlier. Fishy, no? Doesn't she really know that her 2007 GDP can never be repeated so that it is totally foolish to throw that one-time surge of dollars away to debt service. Anna started by "I think you hit the nail on the head." I will close by saying "I think you better hit the nail into Gloria's head". Do these big lenders give the president of a country incentives or commissions for paying early? Gloria says we need to take advantage of the strong peso by retiring most of our debts earlier. Fishy, no? Doesn’t she really know that her 2007 GDP can never be repeated so that it is totally foolish to throw that one-time surge of dollars away to debt service.

Anna started by “I think you hit the nail on the head.”

I will close by saying “I think you better hit the nail into Gloria’s head”.

]]> By: anna http://stuartsantiago.com/utang-na-loob/#comment-300 anna Fri, 09 May 2008 11:00:59 +0000 http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=125#comment-300 Angela, I think you hit the nail on the head: <i>that the limits to full foreign ownership are the reason why we aren’t getting as much foreign investments as thailand and indonesia and vietnam, thats why daw we’re not growing.</i> I couldn't quite understand why the federalism issue was being 'tabled' again but you are right! And I agree completely with you: <i>dapat nating pinag-uusapan ay ang pagbabago ng debt policy natin. we spend on the average half of the budget on bayad-utang and bayad-interes para lang makautang uli. ano ba yan.</i> And to cap it all, there's blatant, absolutely willfull, deliberate mismanagement of the meager assets by this harebrained govt, a heinous crime in my book! Angela,

I think you hit the nail on the head: that the limits to full foreign ownership are the reason why we aren’t getting as much foreign investments as thailand and indonesia and vietnam, thats why daw we’re not growing.

I couldn’t quite understand why the federalism issue was being ‘tabled’ again but you are right!

And I agree completely with you: dapat nating pinag-uusapan ay ang pagbabago ng debt policy natin. we spend on the average half of the budget on bayad-utang and bayad-interes para lang makautang uli. ano ba yan.

And to cap it all, there’s blatant, absolutely willfull, deliberate mismanagement of the meager assets by this harebrained govt, a heinous crime in my book!

]]> By: Jaywalker http://stuartsantiago.com/utang-na-loob/#comment-299 Jaywalker Fri, 09 May 2008 01:37:12 +0000 http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=125#comment-299 Angela, You should have change the title of this post to "utang sa labas" hehehe, anyway yes I agree our economic problem will not and ever will be solved with political restructuring of power sharing among minority ruling elites. If ever there is a need for political solution maybe we are better off addressing the state of our fraudulent prone electoral process. Leveling the political playing field rather than changing the form of governance that I suspect will only strengthen patronage and pesonality errr personality politics and worse give rise to warlordism. It seems that our politicians does not realize that we are still a semi-feudal society thus the tendency for our criminal minded politicians to easily become a warlord is a glaring reality that has a bigger probability to happen in a parliamentary system. What a waste of time and energy to debate on a non-issue when we are faced with an impending calamity on food shortage and continuous economic slide with no hope in sight. Angela,

You should have change the title of this post to “utang sa labas” hehehe, anyway yes I agree our economic problem will not and ever will be solved with political restructuring of power sharing among minority ruling elites.

If ever there is a need for political solution maybe we are better off addressing the state of our fraudulent prone electoral process. Leveling the political playing field rather than changing the form of governance that I suspect will only strengthen patronage and pesonality errr personality politics and worse give rise to warlordism. It seems that our politicians does not realize that we are still a semi-feudal society thus the tendency for our criminal minded politicians to easily become a warlord is a glaring reality that has a bigger probability to happen in a parliamentary system.

What a waste of time and energy to debate on a non-issue when we are faced with an impending calamity on food shortage and continuous economic slide with no hope in sight.

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