{"id":150,"date":"2008-08-08T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-08-08T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T14:24:11","slug":"sad-state-of-philippine-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/08\/sad-state-of-philippine-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad State Of Philippine Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its sad when you have a senator who got elected because his wife is a superstar.<br \/>\nIts sad when you have a senator few virtues is being a great action star.<br \/>\nIts sad when you have senators whose only contributions were low quality filibustering.<br \/>\nIts sad when you have a president who never follows the laws she doesn&#8217;t like.<br \/>\nIts sad when everyone is calling for a gas tax holiday.<br \/>\nIts sad when the media doesn&#8217;t even realize that a tax holidays is just a cash transfer to the oil companies.<br \/>\nIts sad when your country is being cut into two because of pressures from secessionist.<br \/>\nIts sad when the only reaction of your government to spiraling prices for foodstuffs is to increase income tax deductions.<br \/>\nIts even sadder when the tax cut isn&#8217;t being felt because your tax bureau is holding back the tax table causing the said tax cut to be useless.<br \/>\nto be continued&#8230;..<br \/>\nMaybe its universal .. from paul krugman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/08\/opinion\/08krugman.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin#\">here:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All this is in the past. But the state of the energy debate shows that Republicans, despite Mr. Bush\u2019s plunge into record unpopularity and their defeat in 2006, still think that know-nothing politics works. And they may be right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its sad when you have a senator who got elected because his wife is a superstar. Its sad when you have a senator few virtues is being a great action star. Its sad when you have senators whose only contributions were low quality filibustering. Its sad when you have a president who never follows the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/08\/sad-state-of-philippine-politics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sad State Of Philippine Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}