Good governance, a bright future, and a prosperous country were what everyone had hoped when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, stepped up to fulfill her role as the president of the Philippines. The country was then in a disarray, with people protesting against the corruption of former president Estrada. Yet with the passing of time, worse had just befallen our country, crisis against crisis, debts piled high up beyond our country’s reach, accusations of corruptions and manipulations, this happened simply because of the abuse of power of one small woman, we once called our leader. It is with this that she deserves the KARMA that is currently happening in her life, from her illness to the evidences, allegations, and testimonies being presented against her, leading to that of her arrest this November. Our former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo deserves all these things that are happening to her, especially if all the accusations of corruption, manipulation, and disruption against her past reign as president to her current standing are true. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) thought nothing of the tiresome hours people labored to pay for the taxes that she uses as her own. As what can be seen from how she used $25000 or about a million pesos to feed her cronies, when she could have fed about 50,000 people. ALL her projects are for lack of better word, full of corruption. The biggest and most popular of her corruptions are the NBN- ZTE scandal, where GMA was told to have overpriced the project by $130 million. The overpricing of the North Rail and the South Rail, where it is even said that the building of these rails was where the greatest robbery in train history took place, and the most recent corruption scandal GMA was in, which is about ... ... middle of paper ... ...e thought of her actually living forever in Manila Bilibid Prison is simply a justified, deservingly good KARMA for her. Works Cited • David, Randy. "How Serious Is Arroyo's Medical Condition?" Philippine Daily Inquirer. 16 Nov. 2011. Web. 26 Nov. 2011. . • Musico, Jelly F. "PNP Helicopter Scandal with Mike Arroyo as Owner." Government News Articles and Press Releases. 3 Aug. 2011. Web. 27 Nov. 2011. . • "Philippine External Debt." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 27 Nov. 2011. . • "List of Filipino Millionaires." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 27 Nov. 2011. .
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Perhaps this self-sentencing is her noble moral cause, or the very extreme of evil indulgence in self-pity and stupidity; self absorption at the eminent loss of human life, including her own. Maybe she's just spoiled and stubborn.
Every commander in chief of the United States is remembered for just few seminal events or moments of their presidency. Bill Clinton will forever be associated with sex scandals despite the golden economy he presided over. John F Kennedy is considered a hero because of his handling of one moment in time (the Cuban missile crisis). George W Bush is no different. Two events have ruled his time in office and I suspect they will be his legacy. I am of course talking about 9/11 and the resulting war in Iraq. Bush’s presidency has been one of extremes as he has received both the highest and lowest approval ratings since polling began, ranging 90% immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, to 28% in June 2008.
The president gives orders to these institutions prior to enforcing laws, and regulate the society's behavior to promote and maintain social order. Institutional intuition stresses the part played by institutional structures in forcing components of request on a conceivably inchoate world. The customary political hypothesis included impressive regard for the request created by government authorities and reflected in constitutions, laws, and other stable principles, or by a group of good commitment, frequently propelled and dependent by religious doctrine (Berki, 1979; Waterstone, 1966). By listening and observing to the needs of the society, the Duterte Administration had successfully established its power and authority to the people firmly because of the positive things that are happening in the Philippines today of course with the participation of the Filipino people. In sociological institutionalism theory, it is very visible that the relationship of the people and the government today is in good terms because the Filipino people trusts the president whole heartedly, people believes that the Duterte Administration will change the Philippines totally in favor of the majority of the population of the Philippines. Hence it
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Nothing would be better when President Obama would be at an event and start singing or cracking jokes with the crowd to lighten the mood or to make everybody’s days. During the two terms, he was an amazing president and did so much more than what I have written in this paper.
with the common problem her sister faces.After reading the article, I could not be more
These conditions were clearly morally deplorable, and the coup caused a change from aristocrats to an Indonesian business class, seen as a victory over communism at the climax of the Cold War. Seeing as similar killings happened right after Indonesia’s, one would think that the generals did not learn their lesson on moral validity. The inevitability of people being killed waters down the big question of moral validities by the minute. In the end, it all comes down to the point of view; depending on the point of view, any side’s moral values could be seen
In the second paragraph Aung Sun Suu Kyi captures the reader 's attention using pathos to explain one of Burmese’s kinds of corruption: “chanda-gati, corruption induced by desire, is deviation from the right path in pursuit of bribes or for the sake of those one loves” (682). By doing so, Aung Sun Suu Kyi allows readers to get attached to the speech because most people can relate to that kind of corruption. The fact that Aung Sun placed chanda-gati as the first signal of persuasiveness which depicts that she is trying to get
Over the years, the Philippines has gone from being one of the richest countries in Asia to being one of the poorest. It has experienced growth and development since World War II. The current administration under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is aiming for a more rapid growth in the coming years. In 2004, the Philippine economy grew by 6.1% surprising everyone. In 2005, the Philippine peso appreciated by 6%, the fastest in the Asian region for that year. At present, the administration is meeting its expected target growth and is continually looking positive for the future.
Hasim Bin Mustofa, Bangladesh to get back GSP if there is no politics, http://news.prio.com, Accessed on February 13, 2014.
... that had belonged to Ferdinand Marcos” (Guzman). What the government uncovered proves that Marcos did indeed steal from the government. Even though people did accuse Marcos of stealing from the government, he was never convicted of actually doing it. Marcos was lying to his people a good president should not do that. When Marcos was president for twenty years he did very little to actually help the people of the Philippines. In fact, while he was president the economy slowly kept getting worse and worse. He wanted to try to improve different aspects of the government but ended up doing the opposite. Another thing that Marcos did was declare martial law on the country. He ended up killing other political figures who did not support the decisions that he was making and his political party. Ferdinand Marcos deserves to be included in the Top 10 “Worst Dictator” list.
The Philippines has long been a country with a struggling economy. Ever since World War II, they have struggled to have a steady government and labor system. Independence did not bring any social changes to the country. The hacienda system still persists in the country, where large estates are farmed by sharecroppers. More the half the population are peasants and 20 percent of the population owns 60 percent of the land. Although the sharecropper is supposed to receive half of the harvest, most of the peasant's actual income goes to paying off debts to the landowner. Poverty and conflict strained the industrial growth of the country with many Presidents trying to fix the problems, but failing to do so. Factors that have faced the country are there is almost 9 percent unemployment, and the country suffers from the consequences of a balance of trade deficit. With the resources that the Philippines have, they are capable of pulling themselves out of the economical hole they are in and being up to par with their successful neighboring countries.
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