02/23/2013
[SAM MERCADO]
With regards to our Sabah issue, I posted and commented on several workable or business strategies to increase the incomes of Sulu and the rest of southwestern Mindanao: A famous Canadian passenger and hovercraft manufacturer that I have been in communication with the chairman himself asked me to find interested Filipinos to buy their licenses to manufacture, to train the staff, and market their passenger, rescue/police/military and leisure hovercraft in the Philippines and Asia. The Canadian manufacturer is the only one, out of over 5 manufacturers and hovercraft operators that I contacted in Australia, Japan, U.S.A, U.K., Sweden and Russia, that is interested in manufacturing their various models in the Philippines. The rests of them want us to buy the complete hovercraft which is of course almost a million U.S. dollars each with 25 passenger capacity only. The Philippines is now the 4th largest shipbuilder in the world, and the Canadian top executive contacted the ferry and catamaran shipbuilder in Cebu to find out whether or not the Canadian hovercraft can be made in Cebu. He told me that it can be done. Another idea I presented to the Patriots to recover Sabah is that the top shopping mall operators must be invited to invest in Jolo, Sulu or Zamboanga
City. The mall operators could also establish something similar to the Costco and Sam's Club which are membership warehouse operators in the U.S.A. The Filipino residents in Sabah must patronize the products and services of the super mall or the warehouse club in Jolo or Zamboanga City and by providing with the fastest, safest and most convenient passenger hovercraft to shop in Mindanao rather than in Sabah. The passenger hovercraft have the advantage because it does not need the expensive seaport or pier to depart from and arrive in. It can hover over the shallow sea, coral reefs, sand and gravel, travel upstream in the river, etc. You can kick out the "human sharks" who over charge the passengers to carry their shopping bags. You do not need the monopolistic stevedore enterprises that are currently operating the seaports or piers like those in Cebu City and Manila. Another strategy is for all Filipino college, technical or vocational students in Sabah to study in Jolo or Zamboanga City rather than in Sabah or Borneo. In other words, all the disposal incomes of the Filipinos who are currently living and working in Sabah must be spent in southwestern Mindanao. No single currency, peso or dollar must be spent for the Malaysian government anywhere in Sabah, except those which are mandatory expenses, fees, taxes, etc. to be paid in Sabah. There are of course many other ideas which are feasible so as to make the Malaysian government in Sabah suffer from lack of incomes coming from the Filipinos living, working, studying, etc. in Sabah! Here is additional idea: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/394575/afp-eyeing-antiship-missiles #.USPTgWccU3w
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