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Dr. D. James Kennedy was "...a student of history and successful author who encouraged Americans of faith to exercise their democratic freedoms and put their values into practice."

Ron Paul
We do not need to be interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and waging war when honest trade, friendship, and diplomacy are the true paths to peace and prosperity.

Capitalism & Inflation

Why is there a
Rice Shortage?

Rice is the staple food of Filipinos. Remove it from the tables and there will be mass unrest. Blaming the weather and the limited global supply to explain the rice shortage is not enough. The government has to abandon its agricultural liberalization program and its overdependence on rice imports. The government must adopt emergency measures to increase the rice output of farmers. The time has come to implement a genuine agrarian reform.

"It is enough for good people to do nothing, for evil people to succeed."
“In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man,
but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

 

Textbook on the
Philippines
Constitution

by Atty. Hector S. De Leon
2008 edition

page 472
Article 11 Sections 1

ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICERS

Section 1. Public office is a public trust. Public officers and employees must, at all times, be accountable to the people, serve them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency; act with patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives.

Nature of public office:
    (1) A public office is a public trust. (Sec. 1.) It is not to be understood as a position of honor, prestige and power but a position of rendering service for the public good and not for privet gain.

I like what this author has shared for it reflects just what I have gone through when ever in an immigration office...they're not there to offer their service, to those of us who honestly are asking questions, but to have a position as in getting honor, showing prestige as if their position makes them someone where we have to appease them and making it seem they have "power" when all their position is is to help uphold the very laws we want all to abide by, even those in office, which is the constitution.

Accountability to the people
   
Section 1 enunciates the principle of public accountability. It sets down in unequivocal terms the mandate that all government officials and employees, whether they be the highest in the land or lowliest public servants, shall at all times be answerable for their misconduct to the people from whom the government derives its power.

Even to the foreigners that are to visit this country, the government workers must show their willingness to help if ever asked because even if this might not be the visitor's country it will reflect onto the people how the visitors have been treated within the government offices, such as the immigration, which will then in turn give the people a reason to correct their officers. Just like the workers reflects the boss, in a business, so also the immigration, or other government offices, can reflect the people within "whom the government derives its power."

 

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