Talk about dysfunctional political systems... I stayed up last night, I was working on the church... while listening to the 3 hour tape and the hearings in congress...
Somewhere, Lee Kwan Yew (the senior minister of Singapore) is probably laughing his butt off... "See the price of democracy?" Well... We misconstrue our dysfunctional democracy for the real thing... where else can you find a congress that breaks its own law, a supreme court playing executive and legislative branches by meandering into the eVAT implementation, and a president (well... i voted for her) who got into power by breaking the rule of law... now pushing for the rule of law...
Well... to Mr. Lee... I truly admire what they've been able to achieve in Singapore, the social engineering carried out in that tiny nation state - cum shopping mall has created a stable, abeit boring economic haven...
But I guess thats the price we pinoys have to pay for the liberties that we enjoy... the freedom to chew gum and voice or eternal distrust of our leaders are priceless... if we are truly poor and miserable, how come we are also one of the happiest nations on this planet?
Don't worry Mr. Lee... we are a nation of survivors... we have time on our side... soon our exploding population will overrun your little nation state with not just nannies and domestic helpers... soon... you might even have to pay us to migrate to your little barren rock in order to augment your negative population growth...
As Mr. Einstein's theory of relativity goes... the smaller the planet you are on... the faster time flies... and thus the bigger it is... the slower your clock "relatively" runs... your little nation state... with all your high-rise buildings and cute little housing neighborhoods really needs to progress quickly... because thats all you have! Heck... you don't even have a good source of drinking water!
Who said we're in a hurry? In typical pinoy fashion... we're getting there... fashionably late... Who said that we're good at getting rich anyway? We are a talented, caring, hospitable, God-fearing and cheerful country... except for the few brilliant chinese/american/spanish mestizo Pinoys who are great at business... we were really never that good with the capitalist frame of mind? Why? because our environment always provided what we needed... so we learned to be content!
Don't worry about us... if push comes to shove... we live in one of the most bountiful environments this planet has... we can all go back to the mountains, plant kamote, kangkong and kalabasa... and make pinakbet... we might actually get healthier and lose our excess instant-noodle and rice carbo driven pounds in the process too...
Don't worry about us... because as a student of history... anyone can see that a nation's path is always marked by the building of a critical mass... before going into the path of progress...
We're building a critical mass... a critical mass of what... I don't know... 
But then again... maybe if we could create duplicates of you to run our country... who knows? Maybe you could loan us your son... in exchange for a million gallons of virgin coconut oil? Or a million cases of mineral water? I hear he's doing a great job... where else would he get his built-in instinct from? You must be very proud of him... 
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