SUKDULANG KAPAL NG MUKHA NI LACIERDA

Talaga palang SUKDULAN SA KAPAL ANG MUKHA at ang KAYABANGAN ntong si Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda.

In lifting the Philippines to investment grade, international credit agency Fitch Ratings categorically declared in a statement that: “Improvements in fiscal management begun under President (Gloria Macapagal) Arroyo (GMA) have made general government debt dynamics more resilient to shock.”

But Lacierda, who said he’s quoting Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima who had served under Arroyo as Trade and Finance secretary, countered that the previous administration had contributed to the decline of the country's credit rating. For the record:

FIrst: It was Fitch who granted the investment grade, NOT PURISIMA OR LACIERDA. 

Pero tingnan ninyo, mga kababayan, MAS MARUNONG PA  si Lacierda sa Fitch. At pati na si Purisima, kung tutoo man na sinabi niya  ang mga binitiwang pahayag ni Lacierda.

Second: Lacierda is a lawyer. Anybody correct me if I’m wrong, he is NOT AN ECONOMIST.  

He, is also NOT A SPOKESMAN of Fitch. Therefore, he (and Purisima if he indeed spoke to him) has NO MORAL OR PROFESSIONAL RIGHT to BELIE, TWIST OR INTERPRET Fitch’s statement to their own liking.

Kaya’t WALA SIYANG PROPESYONAL NA KARAPATAN na magkomento ng derechahan pagdating sa ekonomiya. Lalo pa’t WALA siyang MAIPAPAKITANG EBIDENSIYA at base lamang ito sa sinabi ng iba.

Maliban na lamang kung aaminin ni Lacierda na likas lamang siyang TSISMOSO o UTU-UTO, na sigurado din akong hindi mangyayari.

Third: It’s an undisputed fact that during the world financial crisis which struck  several years ago (2007 if I’m right) during the Arroyo presidency, the Philippines DID NOT GO INTO RECESSION.

COMMON SENSE will tell, even to a high school kid, that the opposite should have happened if the country’s investment image was on a decline.

The United States went into recession, along with several other countries. Purisima knows this. He was a FORMER ARROYO Cabinet member. Shame on him if he will have the stomach to say he did not.

Fourth: Lacierda claimed that when Arroyo “inherited the presidency we were one notch below investment grade. Since then, it went down."

Pero kahit GA-BUHOK na ebidensiya, WALA SIYANG MAIPAKITA.

Fifth: Laicerda boasted that:  “It was only in the time of President Aquino when we inherited the government that it was upgraded to BB+ and today, we have been upgraded to investment grade status."

Again, Lacierda could NOT CITE EVEN A SINGLE example of what their government had done to achieve the investment grade.

Derechahang inakusahan si GMA, WALA NAMANG EBIDENSIYA. Puro daldal  LANG. NAGYABANG na ang gobyerno lamang nila ang nakapagpataasng investment grade, mas LALONG WALANG MAIPAKITANG PRUWEBA.

Kung hindi pa rin KAPAL NG MUKHA at KAYABANGAN ang tawag dito, kailangan natin ng bagong diksyonaryo. 30