Why Federalism may not be implemented in the philippines?

What is federalism first?

Federalism is defining as the allocation of power between the national government and regional
government. A system of government in which the power is divided between a central authority and
constituent political units.

In basic terms, it will break the country into autonomous regions with a national government focused
only on interests with nationwide bearing: foreign policy and defense, for example.

The autonomous regions or states, divided further into local government units, will have primary
responsibility over developing their industries, public safety, education, healthcare, transportation,
recreation, and culture. These states will have more power over their finances, development plans, and
laws exclusive to ther jurisdiction.

The central government and states can also share certain powers.

How is it different from what we have now?

We presently have a unitary form of government. Most administrative powers and resources are with
the national government based in Metro Manila. It's Malacañang that decides how much to give local
government units. The process is prone to abuse, with governors and mayors sometimes having to beg
Malacañang for projects they believe their communities need.

How local government units spend their budget has to be approved by the national government.

In federalism, the states will have the power to make these decisions with little or no interference from
the national government.

Federal government is a good system of government and a good example of successful federal kind of
government is the United States of America. But the question here is do we really need it? Is it advisable
for our country to change the government into federal?

On my point of view, we do not need here a change of government all we need is to strengthen the
centralized government. And also it’s very expensive to have a federal kind of government. We have no
enough funds because we are still paying our debts. We have already LGU’S and NGO’S to monitor the
needs of people that have a power equal to the national government. We are making our situation
complicated if we change our present government into federal. Lastly, the Philippines is a third world
country and according to survey last September 16, 2006 we have 25 only of the world’s 193 countries
have federal political system, and 3 out of 25 is belong in Asia. It only indicates that a third world
country like us is not ready and cannot afford the federal government.