Using POGO and Chinese Spies to Justify "No to Economic Charter Change"?
Whoever made this meme is laughable! It's really laughable at the extent people will defend the Filipino First Policy. Some people even make the late Carlos P. Garcia some kind of hero (and he's buried at the Libigan Ng Mga Bayani, translated as Heroes' Graveyard). Eventually, the late Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. was laid beside him in that same graveyard. Not exactly ironic if you think that Marcos Sr. himself used economic protectionism as part of his policies. The UP School of Economics states that the first Marcos Administration was heavily protectionist . Under the second Marcos Administration under Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.--the talk for economic charter change is there. It gets clouded with talks about how economic charter change means giving the Philippines to China (and the same gossip is said to federalism, and China is a unitary state ), doing Ad Hominem attacks on Senator Robinhood Padilla (read here ), and saying that it will just allow POGO, Chinese spies, and F