Mr. Amadomacasaet@yahoo.com then connected the dots for us readers. First, "Hundreds of millions of pesos allegedly went into the pockets of powerful people. These people needed big money for the campaign." Next, "Gloria Arroyo won by cheating as she tacitly admitted. There was no more need for campaign funds."
This open-door on smuggling back in 2004 kicked off further expansions and greed for smuggling over the past 6 years. (Ex-President Gloria Arroyo should be in jail by now, so many people are willing to bring out evidence--but she had herself elected to congress so as to obtain immunity for her and her cronies.)
The author of this piece demanded, " President P-Noy must make good his promise to stamp out corruption. There are witnesses who are willing to testify to prove the fraud." The author believes more money is lost to smuggling than to tax-evasion annually.
"More importantly, smuggling continues to kill local manufacturing. Nearly all of the smuggled consumption goods can be produced here."
NOTE: One problem--not mentioned for having a low level of production in the Philippines over recent years is due to the corruption level by officials in many other departments (besides the insurance and customs officials,) i.e. across the over-centralized land. Many more foreigners living in this country would invest in the Philippines if the government cracked down permanently on the graft (and ended the over-centralization of goods, profits and money--i.e. almost everything ends up in Manila instead of in the poorest regions that offer the greatest human- and natural resources.
When I asked a local person on the island of Palawan, where I live, why the relatively powerful leaders of the island did not demand and receive more profit from resources on the island from the Philippine government in far-off Manila, Luzon, I was told that the assassination of those leaders would be the result if they pressed for their people's rights to access for resource profits. (Palawan, for example is the only major oil producing island.)
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