Mike Wootton
Mike Wootton

I am amazed that Malacañang should state that the government cannot interfere in market operations of the private sector. The government’s job is to protect its citizens, that is its reason for existence otherwise we just revert to Hobbe’s state of nature—a truly scary prospect! In this neo liberal economy that we have here in the Philippines, the private sector is meant to be fairly unconstrained but that does not mean (or at least should not mean) that it can just do what it likes.

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