CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN HECTOR R.R. VILLANUEVA “A President’s personality is an important shaper of his Presidential behavior on serious matters.” – James David Barber What this country needs today is a game-changer of exceptional integrity and ability. However, like all previous presidents,...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “Power is the great aphrodisiac.” – Henry Kissinger Having failed to amend the Constitution and shift to a parliamentary form of government, the best option to achieve continuity and stay in power is for PRRD to run for the vice presidency with a...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN “We haven’t the time to take our time.” – Eugene Ionesco Hector RR Villanueva The economic managers are hedging and preparing the mind of the public that economic recovery and going back pandemic normalcy will be a long time in coming and uncertain. And, our procurement...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN “Asia-Pacific countries do not wish to be forced to choose between the United States and China.” – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Hector RR Villanueva What if the United States decides to pay the maintenance of American troops stationed in the Philippines under...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The race is to the swift; the battle to the strong.” – John Davidson The next president must not take off where President Rodrigo Roa Duterte had left off in his obsessive war against drug trafficking and drug addiction,...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.” – George Bernard Shaw The periodic announcement by the Bangko Sentral of the rate of inflation is generally meaningless to the ordinary man in the street. What he knows is that prices are...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” – Giuseppe di Lampadusa The solution to every problem it seems is to create a task force and leave it at that. With vaccines at hand to tame the raging coronavirus pandemic, and...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “Ring out the old, ring in the new, the year is going, let him go; Ring out false; ring in the true.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Let us be candid about it. Though buoyed up with hope, economic recovery is not around the corner. The COVID-19 pandemic will...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “A wrong decision isn’t forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever.” – J.K. Galbraith The rapid and record-breaking discovery of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine can only be described as awesome, phenomenal, and...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “The public be damned! I’m working for my stockholders.” – William H. Vanderbilt The harsh imposition of lockdowns is the easy part while the downside effects on the economy are incalculable and debilitating – which government...
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “What may happen is what keeps us alive. We want to see tomorrow.” – John Steinbeck We shall overcome because we must. With anti-COVID-19 vaccine available soon, the optimistic economic forecast is that we will have economic revival by 2021-2022....
CHAFF FROM THE GRAIN Hector RR Villanueva “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” – Edmund Burke The nation should command President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for choosing the fight against corruption, narcotics trafficking, and criminality as his mission and patriotic duty. His courageous...
