Filipino -- a naturally corrupt race

"License" is a matter of law. "Practice" is a matter of reality. In other countries, whatever you read in their laws is actually shown exactly in practice. But in the Philippines, what you can read in its laws is so opposite of what you observe in reality and practice. Philippines as a nation, and the Filipino people as a race is like a "corrupted" software, it functions differently with reference to its program (laws). This is the legacy of the outgoing (old) generation; and I'm getting mixed emotions already on whether we should push for reforms or just sway with the wind and consider corruption as natural part of the Filipino identity.

Grenade may be more effective than letter

A government, such as The Philippine Government, that don't respond to signed, non-anonymous, written letters is like signalling the public to throw in a grenade instead.

Not Solutions, but Survival Kit

Noon, sabi ko, yang ugali ng mga nag momotor sa Pilipinas, hindi yan safe. So, minomonitor ko ang mga aksidente na na pa-publish sa dyaryo. Tinigil ko na pag monitor kasi araw-araw merong patay sa motor, katulad din na araw-araw may resulta ang Jueteng. The laws in the Philippines is not the picture of what the country is, it is to totally different, it is a country of unlawful people.

The stories you see in newspapers is just a very insignificant fraction of the corruption of the entire nation. Sa ganitong degree of unlawfulness ng buong bansa, hindi na SOLUTIONS ang dapat na hanapin, dapat SURVIVAL KIT na lang. Mga palusot na dapat malaman para mag survive. Mga swabe na techniques kung papano magpadulas ng papeles.

Too much Prohibition Leads to Corruption

Watch this Youtube: Drug Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the UN!

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When government prohibits, the transaction costs in doing such business increases, as a result, prices of the prohibitted product skyrocket which creates big profits in its production and sales. The alternative solution is managing the demand side instead of the supply side. This hypothesis is applicable to all kinds of undesirable products and services.

This is what my thesis in college was saying. The title of my college thesis in 1997 was "The Market Structure of a Prohibitted Drug in the Philippines- the Case of Methamphetamine Hydrochloride" for BS Economics at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos.

When I wrote it, some 14 years back then, they said it was the most wierd theory they have ever heard. But look now. I didn't expect the ideology would tremendously grow GLOBALLY.

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Prohibition of disagreeing speeches would lead to insurgency. Prohibiting right to life would lead to terrorism. Prohibiting hope in betting would lead to illegal gambling. Any kind of prohibition would cultivate a CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

If you notice, the countries with too much prohibitive laws become the top corrupt countries in the rank. This explains the Culture of Corruption in the Philippines. Did you know that UK is a very old civilization, yet the number of their laws is only 10% the volume of laws compared to Philippines.

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So if I become Senator, I would probably be different that the other Senators. While the others make new laws, I will spend more time revisiting the previously approved laws and I will check out if it is implemented or not. If the law is not implemented, then CORRUPTION EXISTS.