disadvantages and advantages of no Philippine election in 2007?
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Advantage/s:\n1) no election expenses\n2) no casualties/fatalities due to elections\n3)\n\nDisadvantage/s:\n1) people would be left with no choice but to be under their stupid and non-performing representatives longer\n2) more protests and demonstrations against no-el\n3)
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Lots of influence from the Spaniards... They always collect taxes higher than expected... Get the land of farmers... So.. After 333 years of colonialism what do you expect from the Filipinos? Be totally better than them? NAH!!! Your wrong... \nDo you think that the Philippines shold be first or what? It's good that the Philippines is only second not first. It's not in the religion. It's already in the tradition. It's hard to eradicate that...\nMind you... Not every politicians are corrupt... :) Wow good thing... I still think that Pres. Arroyo does not corrupt because there are no issues about that...
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No election this year.
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the second people power revolt in the philippines - the one that forced out then-President Joseph Estrada - showed that technology can create political changes. it was through SMS - or "texting" - that made it possible for the millons of people to gather and make a stand at EDSA. \n\njulius court, a programme officer at the United Nations University and co-director of the World Governance Survey project, even suggested that "People Power 2" is the first e-revolution.\n\nhe said, "'Texting' allowed information on former President Estrada’s corruption to be shared widely. It helped facilitate the protests at the EDSA shrine at a speed that was startling - it took only 88 hours after the collapse of impeachment to remove Estrada. The use of mobile phones was why the mobilization (or perhaps 'mobile-ization') was so large and so rapid and thus so decisive. Estrada himself blamed his ouster on the 'text messaging generation.'"\n\nthe philippines then had a record 4.5 million mobile phones. during the people power 2 week, telecom providers reported an exchange of 70 million text messages.
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Hello dear!\nWell, people and their societies are dynamic bodies, which means there is always strive for improvement, thus, there will always be crisis in every society, especially large states as the Philippines! Further, countries with lower income and pressed political rights are expected to try harder for changes, which increases political crises. Thus, I foresee that the Philippines will continue having the crises for a long time; what I wish is that Philippinos will enjoy more and have more rights achieving higher living standards.
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I think you mean early voting.  They can only use exit polls to give you a feel for that.  Absentee votes are usually last after election day.
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according to the philippine constitution, there is a separation of the church and the state...\nhowever since the philippines is 95% catholic... the church defenitely have a say in key poltical issues becoz the people listen and politicians themselves are catholic...
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here is a page of some trade data from the phillippines census bureau statistics site:\n\nhttp://www.census.gov.ph/data/sectordata/tsft.htm\n\nthe aquino administration ran from 1986-1992.\n\nhard to find other data that goes back before around 2000 or so, but you might just poke around on their site.  it looks like you can purchase CDs or books full of data from the office, too.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov.ph/
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yes , why not ? this Philippine government made our lives so hard, we cant tell who is telling the truth and whom to believe then. Many bebefits are not given to the government employees. So we need a change , and that change shall take efect soon. impeachment is one of the solutions.
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no you can't. the philippines doesn't allow that.
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Presidents don't get thrones, they work for the people who elected them like you and me. \n\nSure, a president can resign.  The president of the Philippines is elected for a six year term.  If the current president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, resigns then the vice president, (Manuel) Noli De Castro takes over the office of president.   \n\nThe president can only serve one term under the new (1987) Constitution.
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One can certainly write a book about this topic, but here are a few consequences stemming from the increasing numbers of overseas Filipino workers, of OFWs.\n\nSociological: many observers have noticed changes in the traditional family structure; as a substantial portion of OFWs are women, they often work abroad to send money home to put their children through school; thus, children often live in single parent households where the primary breadwinner is absent and gender roles are reversed, i.e. the mother is the breadwinner, while the father takes on the role of homemaker.\n\nEconomic: overseas remittances are important in keeping the Philippines' balance of payments in surplus; as such, this preserves the level of reserve assets held by the Philippines, thus contributing to debt sustainability (the country is one of the largest issuers of sovereign debt in the developing world) and propping up the exchange rate (thanks in part to the large inflow of overseas remittances from OFWs, the Philippine peso was one of the strongest performers vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar in 2005).\n\nPolitical: given their increased importance in the economy, OFWs have rightly gained increased influence as a political constituency--up until 2004, overseas Filipinos were denied the right to vote; because of their large numbers -- some estimates go as high as 8 million -- their vote could potentially swing an election; however, as evidenced by the low turnout by eligible overseas Filipino voters in 2004, huge logistics problems need to be tackled to fulfill that potential.
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If they are a movie star, from a political dynasty, or corrupt they do not need to be qualified to be the President of the Philippines.  The people will elect them regardless if they are qualified or not.  They presently have the most qualified person in the country as President and they want to throw her out.  The government is doing better than it has in years under her leadership and it seems some of the people would prefer to destroy all that has been accomplished in order to let the Opposition Party which does not have a plan or a qualified leader take over.  The Philippines is not a Third World Country because it is lacking in natural resources.  It is a Third World Country because it lacks stability in the government.  The lack of stability is created by the people through their street protest. It matters not if they have a President or Prime Minister, qualified or unqualified leader,  nothing will change in the Philippines until the people come to understand laws are to be obeyed regardless if you like them or not.
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There is no race in 2007 it is 2008. So for there to be a new president in 2007 it would follow the rules of succession. In 2008, it would be nice if it were no one who voted for the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, or the Bankruptcy Bill.  Lets see...  I nominate Russ Feingold the only US senator to meet those requirements.
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it's always best to rate each candidate individually.  The only advantage of voting a straight ticket is to avoid political gridlock.  \n\nBut, if quality people are elected from either party, then gridlock won't be a problem anyway.
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divorce is not allowed in the philippines mainly because of the traditional catholic religion.  \n\ndisadvantages:\n- couples having a hard time staying together would work less to keep the relationship intact and resort immediately to divorce\n- it would be going against majority of the country's population's religion causing scandals\n- filipinos believe it to be immoral and therefore some couples who have gone through divorce might be discriminated against
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First, by eliminating corruption the plagued the government! From the local to the executive level, corruption is so rampant! If only these so called politicians have conscience, I'm sure poverty would not be a huge issue for any 3rd world country. \nAlso, people should change their own perspective in life. It's not because it has been made outside the Philippines, it has good quality. Too much brain drain happening that no society could survive for that matter.