‘Barkada Inc.’
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This is interesting — if not really intriguing. There was once that well known and famous conglomeration aptly called “Kamag-Anak Incorporated.” The then government was primarily anchored on the popularity of a family member — plus a dynasty of the wealthy and the powerful in the country. Without the least intention at all of offending anybody in anyway, as expected, rightly and effectively governing a nation cannot be premised on but popularity.
Together with integrity, competence is a prime requisite — especially on the part of the none other than the Head of Government. The said required competence has a special relevance precisely on account of the executive power thereto appended. An incompetent executive is all that it takes to disorient a people and to ruin a country. Let it be said though that the inherent weakness of a democracy is when elections are basically popularity contests — wherein competence is wherefore irrelevant.
And now, following the same lineage in Philippine government, there is said to be something akin to the Kamag-anak Inc. — with some kind of a twist. This time it is dubbed the “Barkada Inc.” Those who coined this phrase, do not exactly deserve to be blamed nor denounced, much less damned by those intimately concerned in such a more and more decidedly perceived reality in the present administration. Never mind if the present government is said to work like a “Student Council” according to a well known and respected political figure. Never too if another famous and much appreciated political personality said that the incumbent administration has but 2011 to shape up or ship out — or something like it..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110104com6.html
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