It is time
FROM A DISTANCE By Carmen N. Pedrosa (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 27, 2014 - 12:00am
A democratic government is for the benefit of the many, not of the few. It can only survive if its citizens protect this essential maxim. In the last few months, different studies have come out to alarm thinking Filipinos. The Philippine democratic republic is seriously in peril. Different studies have been made to awaken Filipinos.
A 2014 study by Julio Teehankee, college dean at La Salle University, shows 178 family dynasties rule 73 of the 80 provinces.
According to Bobby Tuazon, director of policy studies at the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, 21 of 24 seats in the Senate fall under the control of political families. In the House of Representatives, 80% of 229 seats are dominated by dynasties.
A 2014 study by Ronald Mendoza, director of the AIM Policy Center, shows 75% of members of Congress and 80% of governors and mayors belong to political dynasties.
According to Forbes list of billionaires, the 40 richest in the Philippines have combined assets of $34 billion.
A 2012 study by the World Bank shows 25.2% of Filipinos living below the poverty line of $1.25 a day. The figure of the CIA for the same year is higher, 26.5%.
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These figures come from reliable academic groups, not from political opponents. Responsible institutions have not responded adequately to its dangers. Some of these institutions have chosen to ignore the creeping catastrophe, thinking the problem will go away. That is wishful thinking.
The few are determined to use their wealth to keep in power and the status quo through the present system of government of money and celebrity popularity.
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The wealthy and powerful few will use every means to make sure they stay in control of the resources of the country. They treat the present presidential unitary government as their principal weapons and the way to ensure that the status quo remains. Government is now about who has the big money. No wonder the same few families are in full control of the country’s political life.
Take the recent elections of 2010 and 2013. It is worth noting that although there have been cheating in past elections, this time it is about wholesale cheating through Smartmatic-PCOS machines. To win in an election in the Philippines today means only to have lots of money that can buy victory in the polls through these machines in the guise of quick results through automation. The use of celebrity popularity is a factor but this only shields the more pernicious use of money.
Our elections are now in the hands of foreign election operators because of money and a compliant COMELEC in complete defiance of the Constitution.
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