FEDERALISM IS PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT

What we see in the Presidential government is that the authority to decide about the personal lives, about economic matters, about political matters is actually done by the elite groups of oligarchs who controlled our political leaders running the government for their collective personal gain reaping all the benefits, taking all the fruits, and the masses of the population finding themselves worse than they were before.

When these elites get into business on illegal drugs, our country is flooded with drugs. When these elites get into mining business, the mountains all over the country are ripped apart. When these elites think of borrowing money from foreign countries, they borrowed in trillions of pesos. In other words, whatever the elites want they get, and the worst thing is that they don’t bother about the progress and development of the respective Regions and Provinces in the entire country.

If you accept the reality of the problem under the Presidential government, then, you must accept that, yes, we, the Filipinos, must do a drastic action to change it to the Federal government. In Federalism, it is in consonance with the natural course of man that he has special loyalties and obligations towards your own people, towards your own community, and towards your own destiny.

In humans, consciousness and intelligence go together. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems; consciousness is the ability to feel things- to feel joy, sadness, boredom, and pain, and so forth. We often solve problems by feeling things. The really important thing is to liberate ourselves from suffering. So, who could be the right people that can see the underlying causes of the problem that they are suffering, and therefore have the commitment and the ability to solve it? It is obviously the people within the community that is directly affected. Remember: the grass is always greener where you water it near you.

Let me get this right; what, the elites and the oligarchs are supposed to be encouraged about improving the other people’s lives? But only to amass wealth to their heart's content. 

Federalism, therefore, means for the people to be empowered to shape their own destiny, to develop their own respective communities and environment and not rely on the government for handouts like parasites who depend on charity for survival. Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. Accordingly, the Presidential government is defined as stealing an opportunity from the people to think or act on their own. It is a ladder to the wrong goal.