DON'T EDIT MY EDITORIAL PRESENTS: If you were Give a Chance To Talk To Pres. Duterte, What Are You Going to tell him?

If you were Give a Chance To Talk To Pres. Duterte, What Are You Going to tell him?     

     Rodrigo Road Duterte is our 16th president of the Philippines and our current president. Having a conversation to a president is one of the most unforgettable experiences of a life of a person. If I’m given an opportunity I will grab it. This is the one of the best opportunity that would be happen into my life. He is the president that has many “first”. He is the first Mindanaoan to given a position in the government as being the president. Fist president from Davao. First thing first, I will “mano” or bless-act Filipino respect. Not just being as the president of the Philippines to give him a proper manner such as saying “po” and “opo” because he is older than me.  I want to discuss our personal lives. I know that our president is came from a family who are had an experience about governance. For me, we will have a conversation first about our personal life. What is our favorites, our family, and our something secrets. The president young experiences or rather unforgettable memories when he was a child. Something is so called, getting to know each other. I will start it first but if we don’t have a luxury of time, I can skip it rather. To talk to a president we must first get to know each. I will ask his about his family and friends. May be his personal life such as his love life, how many girlfriends that he had and something like that. After asking and having moments about his personal life. I will ask about his political life. “Why did he want to be a politician?” I want to ask that question. If it is something to do about the personal interest? To follow his father first step on governing, or he wants something. 

     As we all know our president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte is something that we called unique from other 15 president of the Philippines. He is somewhat “rude” that we think about this fight about illegal drugs. That is the question that I want to be answer from him. Second, I will ask him about “Why did we want to fight illegal drugs as his primary goal in the Philippines?” As we all know that illegal drugs are always there since there from the post-colonialization history of the Philippines. From the presidents of the Philippines in the past the fight of illegal drugs are somewhat is not there primary goal in the society but the economic status.  According to the update world money conversion website ex.com, one dollar is equal to Php 48.2993 as of 1:05 pm, Oct 9, 2016. 

       If the value of dollar is increasing meaning the economic status of the Philippines is decreasing and if the value of peso is increasing the country’s economic status is increasing. In the year of Ferdinand Marcos, the value of dollar is only 2 pesos. See that, in the Marcos administration is very good in terms of managing the economic status of the Philippines. So I am quite not agreed on Ma’am Andes on his madness on Marcos. According to our government website gov.ph, “In 2012, the Philippines recorded one of its strongest years for growth, surpassing all expectations; the first quarter GDP of 2013, recorded at 7.8%, further raised the bar among the community of nations and exceeding even our growth trend. “ Meaning the former Aquino’s administration is good in terms of economic status of the Philippines than the present administration of the Philippines. To cut the story short, why our president does wants to terminate first the drugs as his primary goal in the society if the Philippines are now going down in terms of economic growth. If our economic growth is on down grade most of the Filipinos will suffer the rage of poverty. On my school days, I am glad that I have some money to take a snack but some of my classmate doesn’t have enough money to buy a snack or even to play the school bills or projects.  

      According to the manilatimes.net, “For an import-dependent country like the Philippines, it is difficult to overstate the impact of currency exchange rates. There is almost no part of the economy that is not affected by them in some way, particularly because of the country’s import profile; the Philippines imports virtually all of its fuel, most of its transportation equipment, and a very large proportion of the raw materials and intermediate goods needed for manufacturing.” The impact of exchange money rates is highly affected the Economic growth. I will asked the third question, one of the most struggles that Filipinos suffered mainly in the region of NCR or the National Capital Region, is suffering the heavy traffic. As we all know heavy traffic is one of the struggles of the Filipinos that are now suffering since the former administration of Noynoy Aquino. According to the Phil star website an online newspaper website, “Sa pag-aaral ng isang Japanese agency, P2.4 billion ang nasasayang araw-araw dahil sa matinding trapik sa Metro Manila.” Meaning Php. 2.4 billion pesos is being wasted because of traffic. I want to ask our president about this situation because that number is not joke for everybody.  In Naga City, we are also complaining about the installation of the traffic lights. But if we are going to solve the traffic it may save lives and money. The 2.4 billion everyday can feed almost one city, millions of family, and millions of Filipinos. If he can solve the traffic, may be the change is coming. The fourth question that I will ask to our president, “Why do you want to kill people to just to aim your goal about criminals?” 

      As we all know we are one of the countries of the world that believes on God or Christianity. One the ten commandments of God, it is the fifth one “Thou shall not kill” We must not kill anyone. Only God will take-off everyone’s life not us. Why do you want to kill? Giving a person a punishment is not in terms of kill. Kill the drugs not the people. Killing is not the key for aiming on terminating drugs in the country. there are many allegations in our president one of the most about he is the mastermind in the DDS or the “Davao Death Squad” It kill criminals and sometimes even people is not actually do that such thing. There is witness that is telling he is one of the former members of the Davao Death Squad. He is Edgar Matobato, that he is telling that the president is that mastermind of the extra-Judicial killing happens in the terms of Pre. Duterte as the mayor of the Davao City. In the speech of our former president Ninoy Aquino, he wants to end the violations on human’s rights. But that dream will be only a dream for me. 

      In the new administration, killing is one of those things. Many drug pushers had been killed that is against the law. Covering their dead body with the use of packaging tapes, torturing them, and many more.  The extrajudicial killing won’t win the war against the illegal drugs. It is just making things worst. The anti-drug war was the campaign promise that propelled the popular, tough-talking Davao City mayor to the presidency. But human rights activists have expressed alarm over the rising body count, pointing out that many of those killed were only unidentified suspects. This is alarming. This is I want to talked about to our president.  “Aanihin mo pa ang lider na matapang at matalino, kung hindi naman matino.” I would say we need leader that has moral capability to lead the people behind him with respect model. Our president is the representation of our country.