mark_15
02-20-2007, 12:49 PM
Editor's Note: What follows is the first part of a preliminary transcript of the Eleksyon2007 podcast interview with senatorial candidate Aquilino Pimentel III.
Joey Alarilla: Good day too. Our first question - JV Rufino – the Editor in Chief, Inquirer.net
JV Rufino: The Philippines has been traveling along economically - not really soaring some of its Asian neighbors. What do you think are the three most important problems keeping the Philippines from feeding all its people, sending all its kids to school and giving all the basic needs for a decent life.
Aquilino Pimentel: You’re asking for three?
JV Rufino: Yes
Aquilino Pimentel: Number one is, the country does not earn enough income to feed its people, send them to school and provide the people their basic needs. So, I would liken the country to a family; so the father and the mother have 82 million children and yet the income of the household is not enough for all the needs. So that’s the reason but the solution is that our country needs to earn income for its people, and how do you do it?
Well, we should be a producer society and not a consumer society and how can we become a producer society, which produces things, goods, services which the world market needs or wants or will buy? So, the 21st century is a scientific century; so before we can produce these goods, these services, we have to strengthen our science culture - our science education.
So it’s really a long process. There are no short cuts - but ‘yon sa tingin ko ang Pilipinas dapat maging producer. Ang ibig sabihin noon merong Philippine goods na nabebenta sa iba't ibang bahagi ng mundo. Hinde pwedeng Pilipino bili lang ng bili ng made in China - dapat may mga made in the Philippines na nabebenta natin- so that's one solution.
Read more of the transcript... (http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/eleksyon2007/view.php?db=1&story_id=50526)
To read part I, II and III of the transcript go here... (http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/eleksyon2007/)
Joey Alarilla: Good day too. Our first question - JV Rufino – the Editor in Chief, Inquirer.net
JV Rufino: The Philippines has been traveling along economically - not really soaring some of its Asian neighbors. What do you think are the three most important problems keeping the Philippines from feeding all its people, sending all its kids to school and giving all the basic needs for a decent life.
Aquilino Pimentel: You’re asking for three?
JV Rufino: Yes
Aquilino Pimentel: Number one is, the country does not earn enough income to feed its people, send them to school and provide the people their basic needs. So, I would liken the country to a family; so the father and the mother have 82 million children and yet the income of the household is not enough for all the needs. So that’s the reason but the solution is that our country needs to earn income for its people, and how do you do it?
Well, we should be a producer society and not a consumer society and how can we become a producer society, which produces things, goods, services which the world market needs or wants or will buy? So, the 21st century is a scientific century; so before we can produce these goods, these services, we have to strengthen our science culture - our science education.
So it’s really a long process. There are no short cuts - but ‘yon sa tingin ko ang Pilipinas dapat maging producer. Ang ibig sabihin noon merong Philippine goods na nabebenta sa iba't ibang bahagi ng mundo. Hinde pwedeng Pilipino bili lang ng bili ng made in China - dapat may mga made in the Philippines na nabebenta natin- so that's one solution.
Read more of the transcript... (http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/eleksyon2007/view.php?db=1&story_id=50526)
To read part I, II and III of the transcript go here... (http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/eleksyon2007/)