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I see that you don’t quite grasp my satirical comments but since your mind is somewhat sound, and for the purpose of the few who visit this page, l was compelled to engage.
Since you’ve already committed the common argumentum ad hominem fallacy by branding me as an elitist and off centered, I would say that I am not.
Now back to the issues at hand.
1. Please don’t try to bend the facts in favor of Noynoy. A legislator’s job is to legislate. Recodify laws? What a pitiable excuse. If he cannot or do not want to create laws, just implement them, what’s the point of being a legislator? Answer: Because he just can. Better than Gibo?
Aquino
Congress: 9 yrs
Senate chairs: 2
Bills filed: 0
Laws passed: 0
Congress chairs:0
Bills filed: 8 (including a Tarlac City Day (2005).
Passed: 0
Deputy Speaker for Luzon
Gibo
Congress:9 yrs
Assistant Majority Leader – 11th Congress chairs: n/a(do your own counting at congress.gov.ph pls.)
Bills filed: n/a (do your own counting at congress.gov.ph pls.)
Passed: 12
Villar
Congress: 9 years
Senate: 9
Senate chairs: 3
Senate Pres.
Bills filed: 737(2nd to Miriam duh!)
Laws passed: 10(2nd to none)
204 alone on the first day of office
Congress speaker
Congress: top filer(redundant)
Gordon
Senate: 5 yrs
Senate chairs: 3
Bills files: 228
Laws passed: 2 on top of my head for sure but there may be more. I heard there’s 8
2. You’re right, I never walked the distinguished halls of Ateneo, I was an Iskolar ng Bayan before coming to Columbia. I think highly of Ateneo, in fact, I want to hold a chair there as soon as I I’m done here. But you do have a Law School right? The best in the country, yes, better than UP, I painfully must admit yes. You also have a masters in Economics right? Do you need one to become president? No. But if you’re running against everyone else who made the extra effort of educating themselves, would it prove something?
Aquino
Ateneo: AB Economics
Gibo
La Salle BS Commerce, Major in Financial Institutions
UP Bachelor of Laws
Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence
Bar Top Notcher
New York Bar passer
Harvard - Master of Laws
Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by West Negros University of Bacolod.
Villar
UP Accountancy
UP Masters of Business Administration
Gordon
Ateneo: AB History and Government
UP Bachelor of Laws
And, Ateneans don’t exactly consider Noynoy as one of its most distinguished alumni right? Please say yes.
3. Corruption is not the root but a mere fruit of the problem which is a culture of indolence and dependence after centuries of colonial rule coupled with a cacique democracy. Noynoy, an indolent and mediocre man (based on his career, congress, senate background) is not exactly the kind of person who can end cacique democracy (take on his own family within the Filipino oligarchy), promote wealth creation and help entrepreneurs ( since he was never one and he never created, just inherited wealth), expand and strengthen the middle class and lead a fiscally conservative government (because he never run anything in his life, not even a balanced family budget).
Noynoy is a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful dynasties within the Filipino oligarchy. His great grandfather was Don Melecio Cojuangco, born in Malolos, Central Luzon in 1871. A graduate of the Dominicans’ Colegio de San Juan de Letran and the Escuela Normal, and a prominent agricultor (i.e. hacendado) in the province of Tarlac, he was, in 1907, at the age of 36, elected to the Philippine Assembly, the quasi-legislature established by the American imperialists in that year. One of his sons (Noynoy’s grand uncle) became Governor of Tarlac in 1941, another (grand father, Don José) its most prominent Congressman. In 1967, one of his grandsons (grand cousin), Eduardo ‘Danding’ Cojuangco, became Governor of Tarlac with Ferdinand Marcos’s backing, and went on to count among the most notorious of the Marcos cronies. Another grandson (uncle brother), José ‘Peping’ Cojuangco, was in those days one of Tarlac’s Congressmen —and one of the halfdozen most powerful politicians in the country.
His father, Benigno Aquino, Jr., at various periods Governor of Tarlac and Senator, linked him to another key dynasty of Central Luzon. Benigno Aquino, Sr., had been a Senator in the late American era and won lasting notoriety for his active collaboration with the Japanese Occupation regime. At the present time, one of his uncles Agapito ‘Butz’ Aquino, is his campaign and former senator, and another, Paul, the head of Lakas ng Bansa (one of the three main ‘parties’ in her electoral coalition); a great uncle-in-law, Herminio Aquino, is a Congressman, as are Emigdio ‘Ding’ Tanjuatco (cousin), and Teresita Aquino-Oreta (aunt). A maternal grand uncle, Francisco ‘Komong’ Sumulong, was majority floor-leader of the House of Representatives.
His only meaningful job experience is within the vast financial, agricultural, and urban real estate empire of his family. He was never a leader, never held a position of responsibility, never created wealth and never been an agent of change.
He’s a mediocre 50 year old man who never accomplished anything neither in business nor in politics. Not to mention his education. Not even a family. How do you expect him to change the corrupt system that he and his family was part of for over a hundred years?
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