ON THE JOB TRAINING PRESIDENT

By Bayawanon

I consider the president as an ON THE JOB TRAINING individual on the following grounds to wit: 1.) He had no national experience prior to his assumption of the presidency; 2.) Local Chief Executive Officers like City Mayors like him do not have FOREIGN POLICIES; 3.) Local Chief Executive Officers like him basically do not have ECONOMIC POLICIES aside from the Local Tax Code as provided under the Local Government Code and the Long Term Development Plans of their localities if any but not really comparable to a National Economic Plan or Policy.

Because of the foregoing reasons I won't wonder why he can't deliver as a good leader of the land being inexperienced in the national leadership. In connection to this I would exhaustively discuss the three factors why he would just be an ON THE JOB TRAINING PRESIDENT of the land.

1.) HE HAD NO NATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- For a good president you must have a great if not a good national experience. President Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay was an outstanding congressman and National Defense Secretary before he was elected president because of his national experience which molded him to be a great president, he is regarded as the best president ever elected to led the Filipino people.

President Fidel Valdez Ramos had an extensive national experience being a former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and being an ex National Defense guru. I consider him as the second greatest president of the Philippines by pulling out the Philippines from the Asian economic crisis during his time, and by properly addressing the power outages in Metro Manila and Luzon island during his time.

Our present Supreme National Leader had actually a national experience when he was elected congressman representing the illustrious City of Davao. It is true that congressmen are simply elected locally but they function nationally for they can legislate laws which are of national importance. Now the question would be like this, what did he do as a congressman when he was in the halls of congress before? The answer is NOTHING.

In connection to this it is expected that the present Supreme National Leader of the country cannot duplicate the feat of the abovementioned presidents for his lack of national experience, hence it is high time for us to cross fingers for him to improve his national leading skills.

2.) LOCAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS LIKE CITY MAYORS DO NOT HAVE FOREIGN POLICIES -- What can you expect from a former LOCAL LEADER who had no FOREIGN POLICIES when he becomes the president outrightly? Can he have a good FOREIGN POLICY? The answer would be a BIG NO , this fact can be gleaned from his so-called INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY which unequivocally sides with Russia and China and which also clearly frowns at our traditional economic and international partners in the United States of America and the European Union.

It is also very clear that he has no international policy background by eventually turning his back from the very favorable decision of the International Arbitral Court of the Law of the Seas in favor of the Philippines and against China in the matter of the disputed Spratly islands and the South China Sea.

3.) LOCAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS LIKE CITY MAYORS DO NOT HAVE ECONOMIC POLICIES WHICH ARE COMPARABLE TO NATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICIES -- Basically, the economic policies of the Local Chief Executive Officers like the City Mayors are already provided for under the Local Government Code known otherwise as the Local Tax Code. What the
Local Chief Executive Officers like City Mayors need to do here is just to implement the law by way of tax collection through the Treasurer's Office.

Another economic policy of the Local Chief Executive Officers like the City Mayors would be found under their Long Term Development Plans, by the economic policies that can be found therein would simply be MICRO-ECONOMIC POLICIES which are simply minute and germ like compared to MACRO-ECONOMIC POLICIES of the national government.

By virtue of the foregoing grounds, facts and arguments it is very clear that the one supremely leading the Philippines is just a CITY MAYOR being over hyped-up,  addressed as the president of the land.