I favor Charter Change.
I want a federal form of government instead of our current centralized republican model.
Let's start with Language.
I want my children to learn to speak well in my native language. I want them to learn about their abcs in Bisaya and not in tagalog. In our current situation, even the speaking of Bisaya is prohibited in school!
It is extremely degrading when Bisaya is delegated as a "dialect" when in fact it is a language, just as Tagalog is its own language. A dialect is a sub-branch of a language. Cebuano, Boholano, Waray, etc are Bisaya dialects. Pampangueño, Bicolano, etc are dialects of Tagalog.
Bisaya must be taught alongside English.
Next, let's go with Income.
In our current system, we send all of our provincial revenues to the central government while they allocate a trickle which is sent back to the local government. This must be changed. The provinces which are working hard (Cebu for example) only gets spare change while the provinces in the Central Government get all the allocation they want.
The provinces should keep most of their income and they should only send a portion of their income to the Central Government. Growth should start at the roots.
Laws.
The Local Government is closer to the people compared to the national government. It only makes sense that they would know what is best for their people. It's highly impractical that the locals have to wait for project approval from the people "upstairs" when the solution is right in front.
Judiciary.
By this I mean the Supreme Court. Currently our Justices are appointed by the president. This MUST be changed. Many times our high court has interpretted and liberaly construed laws in favor of President Arroyo. It's easy to see why they do that because they're all her appointees!!!
The change I want to see is that future justices are nominated by their fellow judges, and "elected" by the justices. The Chief Justice voting only on tie breakers.
I want a federal form of government instead of our current centralized republican model.
Let's start with Language.
I want my children to learn to speak well in my native language. I want them to learn about their abcs in Bisaya and not in tagalog. In our current situation, even the speaking of Bisaya is prohibited in school!
It is extremely degrading when Bisaya is delegated as a "dialect" when in fact it is a language, just as Tagalog is its own language. A dialect is a sub-branch of a language. Cebuano, Boholano, Waray, etc are Bisaya dialects. Pampangueño, Bicolano, etc are dialects of Tagalog.
Bisaya must be taught alongside English.
Next, let's go with Income.
In our current system, we send all of our provincial revenues to the central government while they allocate a trickle which is sent back to the local government. This must be changed. The provinces which are working hard (Cebu for example) only gets spare change while the provinces in the Central Government get all the allocation they want.
The provinces should keep most of their income and they should only send a portion of their income to the Central Government. Growth should start at the roots.
Laws.
The Local Government is closer to the people compared to the national government. It only makes sense that they would know what is best for their people. It's highly impractical that the locals have to wait for project approval from the people "upstairs" when the solution is right in front.
Judiciary.
By this I mean the Supreme Court. Currently our Justices are appointed by the president. This MUST be changed. Many times our high court has interpretted and liberaly construed laws in favor of President Arroyo. It's easy to see why they do that because they're all her appointees!!!
The change I want to see is that future justices are nominated by their fellow judges, and "elected" by the justices. The Chief Justice voting only on tie breakers.
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