P300B PNOY GOV'T CAN PLAY WITH, OR STEAL!

These are excerpts from a story in manilastandardtoday.com citing some of the highly questionable or unexplained last-minute insertions in the 2015 national budget which had been raised by my friend ABAKADA Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz:

P200 billion in un-programmed funds.

P2 billion for tablets for the departments of Health, Social Welfare and Development, Agriculture, Labor, Transportation and Communications and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process and other several agencies without any details as to how many would be the beneficiaries, what  are these for and how was the P2 billion arrived at.

Why should the DSWD be given tablets when it has not submitted audited reports on disbursements form the Conditional Cash Transfer program.

P3.281 billion for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings next year without a single explanation on specifically what’s the money for and how will it be spent.

Almost P1 billion for new positions in 12 government agencies without any list or justification that did not carry any list of how many positions were to be created per agency ad what for.

P118 billion in miscellaneous personnel services benefit funds for pensions, gratuity and retirement benefits of military generals,and for employees who would be displaced by the government’s rationalization program,  but both without any list of the beneficiaries.

Now, think about these, boys and girls:

These are not just simple lapses in the national budget. I’m a million percent sure that Budget Sec. Butch Abad and his people will not ADMIT TO INCOMPETENCE OR STUPIDITY in overlooking something as SENSITIVE AND HUGE as these HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF INSERTIONS.

These insertions have just OPENED THE GATES TO MASSIVE PLUNDER, THEFT or call it whatever you like of the HARD-EARNED TAXES and other PAYMENTS we will be making to PNoy’s government next year,

Since there are no justifications or other details on how these hundreds of billions will be spent or used, WE HAVE NO GUARANTEE WHATSOEVER that these will not be POCKETTED by government people.

The DEHUMANIZING AND INSULTING part is WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, WE WILL HAVE TO PAY THEIR GOVERNMENT these hundreds of billions.

WE CAN’T DO ANYTHING if they DON’T WANT TO JUSTIFY these hundreds of billions.  If we won’t pay, they can punish us in a hundred ways.

This is the kind of government which PNoy WANTS US TO KEEP in 2016 when he steps down as president. If HE’S NOT LYING, and a MAN OF HIS WORD.,

It’s up to us, people! 30

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