Mala-pagong ya panagdisisyon et aga nayari ed Pilipinas [Turtle-pace decision-making is not an option for the Philippines]

Onsasakit so oluk no nanonotan kon dakel so taon ya sinayang na Pilipinas pian onaliguas.

Say 20-taon ya oley nen Marcos et sakey ya baleg a factor no akin tayo mairap. Lost years.

Tinmombok iray kudita ed panaun nen Cory. Abalang langulan oportunidad. Enrile, Honasan sikaray nandiral na ikonomiya. Cory could have agreed to a repudiation of some Marcos-incurred debts but instead acquiesced to pay them. Frequent brownout was the norm.

Intuloy nen Ramos so polisiya nen Cory ya privatization: danum, koryinti, balatyang. Amay National Steel Corporation inlakod Malaysian firm ya undercapitalized tan nanotang na pondo diad loob na bansa. Nen 2004, abankrupt so NSC.

Si Estrada nakal. Tinmombok si Arroyo. Say kanonotan to et walad neoliberal paradigm a kapara nen ama ton si Diosdado Macapagal, aliwan state-led development. 

Apirmaan so Republic Act 7103, Iron and Steel Industry Act nen 1991 ya so mandato to et so industriya ed balatyang sikato so "the springboard and basis for launching Philippine industrialization."

Aga nasabi yan mandato no ag da ikonikta ed pankaokolan ya manbooy sarilin kotsi, sarilin tren, sarilin makina.

In short, the indigenous steel industry would  and should complement the industrial policy of the government in the making of a national car, national railway system, ships, agricultural machines, electronics and appliances. It would and should support the development of military technologies in support of a vision of transforming the country into a maritime and technological superpower. This industrial policy should also include research into nuclear technology, aerospace and advances in pharmaceutical sciences. The state universities led by the UP should play a pivotal role as the policy would pole-vault them into the best universities not only in Asia but in the entire world.

As the architect of its industrial blueprint, the president must see to it that the departments of the government, private institutions and government corporations are in line with the agenda.

No nagawa ya, I don't think countries in Southeast Asia could overtake us.

But the signs are there that they could.

Japan agreed to forgive Myanmar's debt and recently poured money in billions of dollar to create an industrial zone.

Counting from Macapagal to Arroyo's time, 1961-2010, those 49 years were wasted by lack of political will, greed, corruption, over-dependence, lack of self-reliance, or seriously lack of grand vision for the country. Half a century of good policy centered on industrialization could have propelled us as one of the world's superpowers.

But all is not lost if all Filipinos, not just the president, would turn around this undeserved and pathetic condition that we are into.

First in the order of the day must be the revision of the 1987 constitution that renounces war as instrument of national policy when all nation-states must be ready to defend their sovereignty against external aggression and internal subversion. Militarism goes hand-in-hand with industrialization.