Wage hike is not just a question of competitiveness

Wage hike is not just a question of competitiveness, but also it is a matter of cost of living and much more. Honest and good business people do not just stop at considering only one factor to justify wage hike because raising the compensation of their employees is also a matter of cost of living which is very much directly related to the inflation level of basic commodities.

When inflation rate gets above normal level (normal inflation rate level is about 2% to 3%), the delicate relationship of the costs of goods, wages, and services get thrown out of balance.

The economic balance scale is a multi-arm multi-factor weighing device.

On the employee side of the economic balance scale: How many workers could and would continue to endure for long working at their best when their compensations are not able to meet their cost of living?

On the employer side of the balance scale: When an inflation is caused by a government's poor economic management, why are the employers always the ones made to shoulder for the adjustments in the workers' compensations? How many of the employers are able to sustain their operations without laying off workers or increasing the cost of their products and services?

On the consumer side of the balance scale: How many low income families are able to cope with the high cost of basic commodities without resorting to illegal means of earning something just to survive?

On the government side of the balance scale: Where should the point of balance justly lie, and where should it fairly be placed? Who should be responsible for setting the balance back to normal? Who should be held liable for upsetting the balance?

          

Be new! Let the world see the real light in you

There are quite a number of people who are sensing your heart's desire for public service, Ms. Mocha Uson. But your heart is being imprisoned by the hurts and pains of so many past and present negativity and emotions such that in some way it has started to harden ready for "war", as you have spoken it when you recently resigned as an ASec.

But with the content and format of this video interview post of yours, kudos, Mam! I am sensing that finally you are learning to reinvent yourself. This is a right and very good step in freeing your heart towards the way to being a true public servant.

Mas effective, Mam, ang ganitong paraan sa pag-convey mo ng positive message sa mga mamayan tungkol sa importanteng mga bagay (o kahit mga bagay-bagay man lang) na dapat malaman ng publiko tungkol sa kanilang gobyerno.

Hanggat pwede at kaya mong gawin, katulad ng ginawa mo ng video na ito ay sana ang dapat na magiging basic format at content ng inyong susunod pang mga post:

1. Totoo ang message at hindi fabricated. Use information na galing mismo firsthand sa resource person mo. Do not communicate to propagandize.

2. Whatever you convey, whether positive or negative, accept the fact that there will always be haters and critics. Therefore, just simply let haters hate, and let critics criticize.

3. Day by day, on your part, develop the ability to focus less and less on the negativity of their hate and criticism. Find instead something in their messages that you might possibly be able to exploit into something positive. But never fabricate truth just to support your opinion.

4. Learn to refrain from hitting back at haters and critics in the same way or style they are hating and criticizing. Avoid responding to them as soon as you feel the sting of their message. Take some time to at least let the sting subside to a manageable level, if you could not let it die down completely.

5. No government, no administration, no public official, no citizen, no netizen, is perfect. Thus, as much as possible focus on what positive things can be conveyed and can be done in the midst of issues and negativity. But never try to ignore the negative things that are worthy of getting due and appropriate attention.

6. Remember that a negative thing cannot be changed or erased by using other negative things to drown or counter the criticisms they have earned.

7. Learn to appreciate the criticisms that are worthy and constructive and try to build an honest reasonable opinion from the positive and constructive aspects of the worthy criticisms.

Kaya Ms. Mocha Uson, damihan mo pa ang ganitong klase na mga posts. Keysa you play a tedious and futile role of an online "guard dog" who keeps barking at every critic and criticism -- you would only be leading a pack of like-minded "guard dogs" who are barking the same way as you are, while when it comes to winning hearts and minds of the not-like-minded packs, your efforts and resources are just totally wasted.

Don't be a warrior for someone, or a defender of somebody. Rather, be your own self. Be on the side of truth and what is worthy. Be someone who is able to win the heart and mind of somebody -- not by the intimidation of "rabid barkings", but by the persuasion of the truth of positive messaging.

Mam, if you could use your charm and tenacity in this way, in time, even the fiercest critic will go silent and will resort to emojis and animated GIF reactions, if not reduced to silent stalkers of your posts.

Be new and let the world see the real light in you that you have kept inside of you for so long.

God bless you. Let His Holy Spirit guide your thoughts.

       

So you think you're not a bully?

Who can claim he/she is not a bully?

Stereotype bullies victimize the weaklings, the timid, or the innocents. But with the advent of social media, there is a rapidly increasing number of people engaging in a new "genre" of bullying that is targeting the stereotype bullies themselves. Nowadays, social media has become a handy but powerful bullying weapon for netizens to "freely" use.

Bullying is a vicious cycle. The bullying actions you spread around, would come around back to you. So if you act like a bully, then you can count on other people to bully you too.

Try to think of popular personalities who you consider as bullies, and see how much bullying they themselves are getting from other people and probably you including.

Differences (in race, gender, social class, culture, beliefs, ideology, politics, etc.) and the feeling of superiority are two significant factors that could trigger bullying.

The tendency of bullying is to focus only on the difference[s] that others have and interpreting it as an inferiority. To the mind of a bull, the color red is an irritating inferiority of a subject, so it attacks instinctively. 

We may have seen bullies of all kinds everywhere, particularly online. But in the way we engage in social media, have we not realized yet, that somehow, somewhere, there is a bully mentality buried deep in our "coconut shells"?

So who then can claim that they are the right kind of bullies to the wrong kind of bullies? Today, the Philippines (and the world in general) has become more a rich stock farm of fiercer bullies of all kinds (political, religious, ideological, racial, gender, social, etc.).

What kind of a bully are you?

          

Free Solar-Electric Jeep: An Alternative Solution to the Ever Increasing High Fuel Prices in our Country

Isn't this a very good alternative solution to the ever increasing high fuel prices in our country? And did I mention that this vehicle has zero smoke emission and is noise free?

The government should seriously consider this new technology and develop it even more!

Aside from giving Pantawid Pasada Fuel Cards, which is merely a temporary gap alleviation measure, why not think of concrete plans to deal with the problem of high and increasing fuel prices? DOTr, what happened to your public transport modernization project? Isn't this time a good opportunity to pursue this project?

          

The PacMan is building an "ark"

Even though the PacMan is building an "ark", yet someday when that certain "flood" shall come to pass, not all of those who he wanted to be in his "ark" will be able to make it on board. As in the days of Noah, only a handful of them will remain.