Tag: national budget

No to #DAP! Solid management and planning rather than shortcuts and excuses please

July 15, 2014 Virtual Vigilante 5 Comments

Given P-Noy’s “parking on a no-parking zone” analogy, I would rather he didn’t save the person in peril because it’s going to cost me (the taxpayer) 10 times more that it should to save that life. With the dismal track record of government in every respect of governance (most especially in the implementation—and highway robbery—of…

Crime, Government

According to PNoy: Supreme Court is wrong, #DAP is right

July 14, 2014July 14, 2014 benign0 48 Comments

In essence, what Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III said in his address to the public today on the issue of the fiasco surrounding the now-illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) consists of two key messages: (1) The DAP was used in good faith; and, (2) The Philippine Supreme Court was wrong to rule it…

Crime, Government

Why was PNoy DESPERATE to accelerate disbursment of public funds from 2011-2012?

July 14, 2014July 14, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Indeed, it is too bad for the administration of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III that their brainchild, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), has been deemed unconstitutional by the Philippine Supreme Court. The DAP was conceived following a disastrous economic result in 2011 when the Philippine economy grew by only a little bit more…

Crime, Development, Economy, Government, Money Talks

PNoy apologists desperate to discredit SC ruling that DAP is unconstitutional

July 12, 2014July 12, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

Apologists of the now-criminalised Malacanang slush fund, the notorious Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) are regrouping and striking back. The arguments they present are two-phased: (1) Proposing that the Supreme Court may have been “wrong” in their ruling the DAP unconstitutional; and, (2) Citing a certain Chapter 5, Section 49 of the Administrative Code of 1987…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Budget Secretary Butch Abad’s loyal chief-of-staff Clare Amador defends her boss!

May 18, 2014 benign0 19 Comments

Since the release to the public of lists of government officials and members of Congress who’d allegedly had dealings with alleged pork barrel scam ringleader Janet Lim Napoles, the scramble to clear names and deny, deny, and deny has been pure madness. One of the more notable of the names mentioned in these lists is…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Pork ‘realignment’: Ph Senators will continue to kiss Malacanang’s ass to get their pork

January 10, 2014 benign0 40 Comments

Members of Philippine Congress are proving yet again that they will not be divested of billions of pesos in “discretionary” funds without putting up a fight. The most recent sleight of hand is coming in the form of “realignments” of some senators’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allocations. According to Neal Cruz in his Inquirer.net…

Crime, Government, Politics

PNoy misled public on pork barrel funds: It’s still in the budget and legislators still want it

August 28, 2013October 22, 2013 Ilda 66 Comments

Tax evasion should not be a criminal offense anymore in the Philippines. After all, some of the country’s public servants, those who blatantly steal taxpayers’ money, do not get prosecuted or go to jail. It is even quite baffling how members of Congress made a big deal out of former Chief Justice Renato Corona’s undeclared…

Crime, Politics

Teach me how to fishâ€¦not to dougie

December 21, 2012 The Miner 58 Comments

First he called it a â€œpro-poor budgetâ€; now he calls it an â€œempowering national budgetâ€. Read in the papers that the President calls the PhP2.006 trillion national budget â€œâ€¦an instrument to give the common man the power to control and improve his lifeâ€¦â€ I find three items in the General Appropriations Act of 2013 that…

Civics, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society