mga tol pag nasa US of A kailangan dollar ang gastuhin kaya huwag mong i-change to peso ang gastos mo at himatayin ka.. i remember i splurge 400 dollars on my b-day in cape town , south africa with my barkadas
kaya i dont know whats the big fuss about 20 thousand dollars in the USA , its an official function of a president of a country visiting the USA and even met with Pres Obama.. what do you expect an official function in mc donalds fast food just to dramatize how poor we are ... he he he hindi trade agreements o investment ang makuha natin kundi donations
feeeling aside , use our cool heads and common sense .... you think about it
With due respect to your goodselves, going to that restaurant was not and never an official function. It was to celebrate a wedding anniversary. If it was an official function, Mr. Obama would have joined them in that restaurant. Kung gastos ang paguusapan, maliit pa nga ang amount ng USD20Thousand sa ganuong karami ng kakain at ganun lugar sa Nu Yok. Parang 20T Pesos lang yun dun. Di mo talaga kailangan convert yun. I have spent USD400 for one nite in a hotel in Germany (ca. 1988). Ang issue eh pera ng bayan ang ginamit at ang propriety of spending such an amount at that time yata na meron krisis ang Pinas.
At this time of worldwide recession when even the US is fixing its economy, what US corporation will go to the Philippines right now? Don't Glorya knows her Economics? Ang hirap sa mga yan, ang alam nilang economics eh textbook lang. Nung executive nga ng Bayantel si Mr. Gary eh puro negative at puro utang ang kumpanya. Tingnan mo kung magtayo sila ng sariling grocery or sari sari store at makabenta sila.
At kung investment lang ang kailangan, di mo na kailangan punta pa ng ibang bansa to entice businessmen to come to the Philippines. Pag maganda ang investment climate, makikita yan ng mga ekonomista ng mga kumpanyang malalaki at sila mismo mag recommend sa board nila to come over here to invest. Our government has only to fix the banking system to create a free capital market (so we can have real investment banking and private banking); relax the rules and requirements on business registration (dahil pati mayor at barangay captain ay nakikialam bago magbigay business permit); facilitate approvals of business proposals (para NEDA wont take several months to approve an unsolicited business proposal); increase fiscal incentives; put additional tarriffs on competing products to protect local production and induce local businessmen to produce and avoid cheap imports to the detriment of local products (tanggalin ba naman protection sa wire rods eh di close lahat ng factories making wire rods at import na lang from china); at wag payagan ang mga korte na makialam sa mga business decisions at wag pa bago bago mga decision ng korte (look at Amari and NAIA 3).
Sa totoo lang, pag paguusapan lang ang pera, mas maraming pera ang Pilipinas na itinabi ni Marcos para sa bayan. Nakasaad yan sa will nya. Kung tinapos ba naman yan kaso ng mga Marcoses eh di nalibre na mga pera na yan imbes na kumikita lang mga bangko sa ibang bansa dahil sa patuloy na paghawak ng mga pera na yan. Halimbawa na lang, nilustay lang sa halalan yun pera ng DAR galing sa deposito ng mga Marcos. Sinong kumpanya sa ibang bansa meron ganun kalaking deposito at any one time? Assuming totoo, granting without admitting, ang charge ni Salonga na meron USD13B si Marcos, maski ang Microsoft eh walang USD10B at any one time. Pag isetel na lang nila mga kaso na yan eh di ang dami assets na pwede gamitin ang Pinas.
