Path to power and control
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
What has become fairly clear is that the national budget under the Noynoy administration, handled by his Budget secretary, Butch Abad, has become too much of a political tool for political longevity and control instead of a tool to effect good governance.
Those whose departments and agencies are headed by Noynoy and the Roxas-Balay faction get bigger funds that they can’t even seem to explain how money is to be used, while those headed by officials who are seen to be “foes” of Noynoy get big cuts in their budgets.
A case in point is the current proposed budget of the Office of the Peace Adviser, Teresita Deles, who was allotted P569.64 for her budget, which is said to be an increase of some 142 percent from her 2011 budget, but who, during the congressional budget hearing recently, failed to explain how and even where she would be spending such funds in the budget.
Then too, it was also found that while there is an allotment for her office to spend P350,000 on each conflict-affected and donation areas, Deles admitted that there are still no guidelines issued for this subsidy program, since the government still has to come up with such guidelines..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110917com2.html
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another panggagags ng mga buwayang dilaw na ito. may all of you rot in hell, if there's such a thing.
"Another member of the Balay group, Dinky Soliman, gets a yearly gargantuan budget in the tens of billions, supposedly for her CCT program, despite the fact that to this day, Soliman has been unable to show just where the funds really go and who the beneficiaries are, plus the benefits of such a dole program."
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