Excerpts from jcc blog: American legislators can hold office for eternity as long as the people reelect them, but we do not want our legislators to serve for more than 2 terms and our President only for a term. We should go the American way by doing away with term limits. Let us amend our constitution! My response as posted via wordpress : Mary Grace August 19, 2014 I totally agree. Six years is not enough to remedy the damages done by GMA to the SC; (who mangled our constitution by reversing an earlier decision not to allow a midnight SC chief justice appointment); the lower courts like the CA and SB (who let Janet Napoles of the kevlar helmet fame go free to wreak further havoc via PDAF anomalies); she allegedly packed these courts with justices sympathetic to her; the military, and the LGUs. The church, so used to GMA’s favors, is one of the groups truly opposed to this move together with the left leaning groups and Binay sycophants. Another term for PNOY will enable him to appoint new SC justices (upon retirement of some of the current members) that will temper their desire for judicial overreach and meddle in functions purely executive in nature so development and progress will be possible. Reforms that were introduced by PNOY must be continued and allowed to come to fruition, so results of development, progress and GDP growth can trickle down to the poorest of the poor with a simultaneous voter education towards an informed electorate who will reject a corrupt re-electionist presidential candidate in the future. Experience taught us that Ramos at least continued Cory’s reforms and is poised in leading our country to being a tiger economy were it not for the Asian crisis that led to devaluation of our currency thereby costing us more to repay interest and principal of our foreign loans, not to mention, crippling our economy in other ways. He failed in his initiative to lift the term limit and we were saddled with a very popular President Estrada who was later convicted of plunder, to be pardoned by another allegedly plunderer-president whose Ombudsman couldn’t be impeached because of the SQA (status quo ante) ruling by her controlled SC. I hope this endless debate on the merits of lifting the presidential term will not result in the move being moot due to lack of time to amend the constitution, otherwise a Binay presidency will be rammed down our throats by the unthinking electorate and economically challenged masa so desperate for money and goods being distributed by his adopted cities and LGUs.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:10:21 +0000
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