While MB Villar's business interests -- mainly in real estate, cannot be fully divorced from his attention as Senator, such interests have been overseen mainly by professional corporate managers. I can't speak for the man, but records show that Senator Villar divested his control over the companies he owned, turning them over to the Board of Directors, which include his children.

Anyway, the truth on the so-called insertions are coming out. The senators are publicly admitting what they have "inserted" by way of amendments. Let's see what Senator Villar has "inserted", if any. Enrile, Santiago and Pia Cayetano have mentioned theirs. Mar Roxas simply filed a proposal to make insertions public knowledge, after he admitted his own insertions. Lacson has not yet spoken on this, claiming  he has no pork barrel to speak of.

In the end, the truth will out.

You're right there, Marc. These funds, euphemistically pork barrels, are a source of commissions for the senatongs and tongressmen who recommend the contractors for particular projects.  In fact, an investigation by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism shows that commissions for legislators from projects in their districts or which they sponsor comprise 28 percent of their annual take from the government's coffers. Their annual total income averages P11 million per tongressman and P20 million upwards for senatongs.  That covers legal allocations including salaries, allowances (five times more than their salaries), extra/incidental expenses and those freaking commissions.

No wonder those politicians are killing each other, and spending millions for those legislative posts.  Hopefully, the revised election bill sponsored by Angara, et. al. (filed 12 years ago) will see light...kaano pay? Since they themselves profit from this anomaly...baka haan tayo nga makitan....

Thus, let us choose our leaders not by how popular they are...but by the values they advocate.

Erap will not run...according to a cousin (of Jinggoy). Pakita lang isuna...to pressure that Jinggoy will be considered for VP by any Presidentiable.

There would be more presidentiables hitting the minority trails that is basic electioneering technique. Although he got the heads up from the Alma Mater during the last survey, there are still a many who are cynical about his plans and one co ikot runner, J. Binay is hitting the roads too.

On the contrary, I here talks at the AS even at the FC and elsewhere that the oblation should be bemoustached instead, claiming that the man has the power to unite a nation.

Well, I have to wait until the money starts flowing in and decide.

Butthead

Nb. The Ethics investigation will be a good show. That is one to watch to measure abilities of presidentiables on the floor. I'd like to see the fairness of the committee, or if it comes out a real kangaroo as the good man claims.

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ajarn_nick wrote:

ankol mo suna? hehehe

siguro nga eh noh?

marc1990 wrote:

was dismayed with the political advertisements of manny villar.. its pure political gimmicky and nothing else. i was hoping that manny villar will not engage in pure political gimmickry but was really disappointed

Oh well you haven't seen nothin yet. He's bouncing around the country with Willie Revillame (correct me if I got the name wrong).

The people are being offered showtime politics. The people will get showtime politics with the game of chance as the governments foremost policy.

 

marc1990 wrote:

BeavisnButthead wrote:

marc1990 wrote:

was dismayed with the political advertisements of manny villar.. its pure political gimmicky and nothing else. i was hoping that manny villar will not engage in pure political gimmickry but was really disappointed

Oh well you haven't seen nothin yet. He's bouncing around the country with Willie Revillame (correct me if I got the name wrong).

The people are being offered showtime politics. The people will get showtime politics with the game of chance as the governments foremost policy.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:M4OB … GZ/mbv.jpg  http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:UW0m … owowee.jpg

-- yeah, i was really disappointed. his true color came out, he is more trapo than the other trapos. i thought he will thread higher grounds but he chose not too. don't tell me he is not using his office to promote his presidential candidacy because i will definitely don't believe it.. he is surely using his funds as senator for his travels around the country and he is travelling a lot

The votes at his Alma Mater are changing. The vote after the sem should strengthen the students belief that Manny is running to protect his money and his family's future in the country. Typical of what the moneyed few in the country have been doing for decades after gaining freedom from the good ole US of A.

lugan.ikit wrote:

If Manny is running in order to protect his money, then he is running for the wrong reason. In fact, he doesn't need the money anymore. His future and that of his children are already more than assured...he has enugh money to last his lifetime.

The presidency thus becomes a challenge to develop a legacy that he is more than just a money-maker, perhaps that he wants to become a statesman-leader who led his country to prosperity. That's why he isn't going to be as corrupt as those before him, assuming he wins.

And becoming a good president is a legacy that money can't buy. Let's give him a chance he really means to be a leader of his people.

Shouldn't his statesmanship be out earlier in his political career? If that was shown earlier, he wouldn't be with this new ads popping out, him meeting with different sectors in the society.

Think about that.

Villar-Legarda is a good tandem. Until you learn who are the first set of NP's senatorial line-up; Bongbong Marcos, Satur Ocampo(Bayan Muna), Lisa Maza(Gabriela), then you go

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerhe … Villars-NP

The vision of Villar is as trapo as those before him -- to lift his countrymen from the quagmire of poverty. There's nothing new here. You're very right there. And this is also the vision shared by most presidentiables -- all trapos.

What is new, perhaps, is strategic direction. 

At the policy level, this includes changing the mindset of Filipinos from users to doers, from consumers to producers -- at both the domestic and global arenas.

At the program level -- this means encouraging the "sipag at tiyaga" attitude. Lazy men do not a nation move. Equip people with a sound body and mind, arm them with an inquisitive intellect in the sciences and innovation-based disciplines, and strengthen their spirit with sound moral ethos.

The things Villar is currently doing -- is to foment change within the system, by becoming a trapo to implement ideas for change that are non-trapo.

Very zen-like.  I like that.

Villar tayo.

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lugan.ikit wrote:

The vision of Villar is as trapo as those before him -- to lift his countrymen from the quagmire of poverty. There's nothing new here. You're very right there. And this is also the vision shared by most presidentiables -- all trapos.

What is new, perhaps, is strategic direction. 

At the policy level, this includes changing the mindset of Filipinos from users to doers, from consumers to producers -- at both the domestic and global arenas.

At the program level -- this means encouraging the "sipag at tiyaga" attitude. Lazy men do not a nation move. Equip people with a sound body and mind, arm them with an inquisitive intellect in the sciences and innovation-based disciplines, and strengthen their spirit with sound moral ethos.

The things Villar is currently doing -- is to foment change within the system, by becoming a trapo to implement ideas for change that are non-trapo.

Very zen-like.  I like that.

Villar tayo.

i'm beginning to question Villar's "Sipag at Tiyaga", well good for him nga to have earned so much as a businessman and a a legislator, but sipag at tiyaga is an old Pinoy adage and which is to "generic". if you say lazy men do not move a nation, i think it should be more than that. why can't he state " corrupt men don't move a nation" instead?
i have yet to hear him talk about tackling corruption. this i have to say because of a would-be president who is very close to businessmen and his business would be walking a thin line on granting favors for them later on.

i think Gibo is a better alternative. as far as the UP Diliman survey last week, Gibo came in a strong fist and Villar, a far third.

Question : mababayaran ba ni GIBO ang utang ng Pilipinas?