The Philippines desperately needs Constitutional Reform!
The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines is Flawed…
These flaws unfortunately contribute to all the major problems we continue to encounter in our daily lives as Filipinos. Massive Poverty, Massive Unemployment, Corruption, Rampant Criminality, Separatist Insurgency, Communist Trouble-making, Political Instability, Overcrowding in Metro Manila, Massive Traffic Jams, Pollution, the “drug mule” problem, dislocation from families among OFW’s, the Pork Barrel Scam, you name it — all these are symptoms of the systemic root problems caused by the flaws of the 1987 Constitution.
The CoRRECT™ Movement pushes for these main Three Constitutional Reforms:
Economic Liberalization
Dismantle Protectionism. Attract investors. Create more jobs.
If we are looking to increase the employment situation in the Philippines, then we must attract as many investors as possible by removing the restrictive provisions in the 1987 Constitution, so that MNC’s can invest & create employment opportunities.
Empower the regions, respect diversity, decongest Manila.
If we can amend the Constitution to allow for the Philippines to evolve towards Federalism, through gradual region-based decentralization, the regions & provinces of the Philippines can develop economically & the Capital can be decongested.
Platforms & Competence: True leadership, not popularity politics.
If we shift from our faulty and unstable Presidentialism over to Parliamentarism, we will gradually see a change in our politics as campaigns will focus more on parties and their platforms and less on name-recall & the personal popularity of candidates.
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Every single time there are Filipinos who go against Constitutional Reform, it’s always a matter of ignorance and wrong facts.
The people who are against these reforms simply do not understand it. Their knowledge about the current system is so flawed that they think that the current system is ok. They have very little understanding of what a true functioning system ought to be like, and as a result, they make the mistake of assuming that the system in the Philippines is ok.
Worse, their understanding of the reforms being pushed is also extremely substandard. They don’t know how economics works and don’t understand that by being more open to Foreign Direct Investors by removing the anti-FDI restrictions and 60/40 clauses in the Constitution actually goes a long way in attracting more investors to come in. They go against what they do not understand. Then there’s their lack of understanding of what Federalism is or how it works. They often fail to realize that some of the countries they admire the most such as the USA, or others like Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland happen to use Federalism.
And then there’s their utter ignorance about the Parliamentary System. They don’t know what it is or how it works, and oftentimes, they mistakenly think that the late Ferdinand Marcos’ Martial Law system was a Parliamentary System, when actually, we never had a functioning parliamentary system under Ferdinand Marcos during Martial Law, and afterwards, when it was lifted and Cesar Virata who was Finance Minister was made Prime Minister, that still wasn’t a parliamentary system as it was actually more like a Peruvian-style Presidential System, appearing Semi-Presidential like the French, but with the President fully in control, and the Prime Minister acting purely as an underling of the president.
Ultimately, the biggest problem is a lack of knowledge.
This website seeks to cure that problem by providing all the relevant information and knowledge so that more and more Filipinos can be informed and enlightened about what these reforms are and why we desperately need them.
The Philippines Must Learn from Singapore
Singapore used to be much poorer and less developed than the Philippines back in the 1950s and 1960s, but as a result of policies designed to make Singapore much more open to foreign direct investors & multinational corporations, S’pore attracted more companies to come in. More jobs were created and unemployment & poverty were drastically reduced. As a result, S’pore became the richest in Asia. On the other hand, the Philippines with its highly restrictive anti-foreign investor restrictions in the 1987 Constitution, continues to turn investors off, making jobs scarce – keeping most Filipinos poor & desperate.
Singapore serves as a perfect example as the Philippines can easily learn to be open to foreign direct investors and multinational corporations in order to create more jobs. In the interest of political stability, the Philippines can also learn from how Singapore’s parliamentary system firstly allowed it to be able to end up with competent leaders like founding father Lee Kuan Yew and his People’s Action Party and see how it tends to be much more stable, efficient, and less prone to corruption. Lastly, because the Philippines is much bigger than Singapore, emulating Singapore requires that the Philippines autonomize its regions so that the regions all act each like Singapore and together attract investments and improve their own economies.
It’s also worth noting that Malaysia – whose majority Malays & Bumiputras are culturally similar to Filipinos – took many key learnings and insights from Singapore too. As a result, Malaysia is also one of the ASEAN region’s better economies. It’s time to quit being Asia’s Basketcase of Wasted Democrazy! [fikraticker]
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