Mike Chester

Pnoy, the other day you said you will transfer DILG sec Robredo to another agency. the next day you will say, it is still being studied and Robredo stays at DILG.

 

please lang. if nothing is definite yet and plans are still in the works, wag ka muna daldal ng daldal. your flip-flop statements make you look very stupid.

Dear Nonoy,

Im dedicating this song to you:

ito ang beat

sabay sabay

ito ang beat

bawal sablay

pabilis ng pabilis

wag mag mi-miss

wag mag mi-miss

gets mo na?

gets mo na?!

nalilito, nalilito

nahihilo, nahihilo

madali magsalita kung ala ka sa posisyon ng mga taong yan...Saka sir I think masyado mong pinababa ang utak ng mga sundalo natin..Btw you might be referring to those higher ups na mismong reason bakit sila nagaaklas..yung mga ginagamit ng mga politiko..mga general na naging general hindi dahil sa merits kundi dahil sa kapit...They are soldiers for patriotism..Hindi susugod ng mindanao yan at makipagpatayan dun kung hindi sila naniniwala sa pinaglalaban nila..pero kung mga may mga generals na tulad ng ginawa ni GMA na ginamit para mag kag 12-0 sa maguindanao ang team unity then tama lang na pagbabarilin ang mga yan..

Eh kung ang problema nila ay yung nga higher ups nila at mga politiko, eh bakit mga pribadong estabilisimento at mga walang kamalay- malay na sibilyan ang inatake nila at inilagay sa bingit ng kamatayan?

I admire those soldiers who are fighting there in the fields na tinataya ang buhay nila dahil pinaglalaban nila ang bansa. Unfortunately I cannot say the same dyan kay Trillanes et al...

Ntw Nilo Prisco-- Said before na hindi daw pwede gawing hourly ang update ng info sa PAgasa dahil ang hirap oiconsolidate ang infor etc..now there is an hourly info of everything....Mali ba ang ginawa ni Pnoy da pagpalit sa kanya? Kung dumaan pa sa due process na sinasabi mo means tinamaan tayo ng Juam tapos every 6 hours ang update so isipin na kung ano ang nangyari kung siya pa rin ang nakaupo sa PagASA

Ang issue dito is not the performance of Prisco, pero yung pagiging double standard ni noy. Basta kaibigan niya kahit ano pang kamalian o iskandalong pasukin niya, poprotektahan pa rin niya

Noy,

Nilo Prisco - GMA appointee, sacked without due process

Rico Puno - your BFF, cannot be sacked eventhough he is link in Jueteng payola and incompetence on handling the hostage crisis

Sen. Trillanes - GMA critics, court decision will be released by 28 october, amnesty given and asking the court to drop the charges in him

Sen. Lacson - GMA critics, strong evidence on corbito and dacer murder charges, not in your priority to bring to justice

daang matuwid mga kaibigan, daang matuwid my ass

Dear noy,

Mukhang unti unti na talagang nadi disillussionized ang mga taong tumulong sa iyo na makaupo dyan sa Malakanyang...tsk..tsk..tsk..

Insupportable

By Conrado de Quiros

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 04:51:00 10/19/2010

 

Filed Under: Poverty, Government Aid, Charity

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DINKY SOLIMAN, Butch Abad and company are right to say that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should look at the mirror every time she talks about poverty: she will see cause and effect there. She in fact did not only contribute epically to making the people poor, she contributed epically to making P-Noy win by giving resonance to his campaign line, “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.” If there were no people like her, there would be no poor.

 

But they are wrong to say that Arroyo’s complaints, specifically about the DSWD’s P21-billion Conditional Cash Transfer program (CCT), may be safely dismissed. While at that, Soliman should thank Arroyo she didn’t get uppity and demand to know why the country should repose those billions in the hands of her former umbrella girl. Arroyo’s complaints are valid, even if she is complaining about herself: The CCT was her idea; Abad merely inflated it like a balloon.

 

Whether the CCT passes or not, the complaints will continue to hound it—and P-Noy’s concept of reform along with it. Reformist is the last thing the CCT is. Its concept is simple, and simplistic: It will give poor families P500 to P1,400 a month on condition they keep their kids in school and regularly visit health centers.

 

Soliman defends it by saying that the number of poor families has risen greatly. “Our mandate is to help the poorest of the poor … and we are only 3.4 percent of the national budget.” Abad adds: “The CCT is one of the few effective programs we inherited from the past administration. The (current) CCT is a whole package of programs that support one another. That is why you cannot look at CCT apart from basic education requirements, apart from public health investments.”

 

At the very least what’s wrong with this is that it is not an argument for increasing the CCT to P21 billion, it is an argument for expanding the DSWD into a super body. All the DSWD has to do is utter the magic words, “poorest of the poor,” and it can get to poach into any territory it wants—education, public health, housing, peace and order, infrastructure, trade and industry, you name it. You include all of those and that would be a wholer “package of programs that support one another.” I asked it the last time around: Why not just collapse the other departments into the DSWD?

 

In fact it’s just reposing on the DSWD functions it has no core competence in. Who better knows the reasons why parents are not able to keep their kids in school, the DSWD or the Department of Education? Who will be better able to keep kids in schools, the DepEd by giving the kids free books, free transportation, milk coupons, food stamps and what have you, or the DSWD by giving parents money to keep their kids in school?

 

Again, who better knows the reasons why women, particularly mothers, avoid clinics like the plague, the DSWD or the Department of Health? Who will be better able to get the poorest of the poor to regularly visit clinics, the health department by giving the women free check-ups, free services, free medicine, free transportation, free contraceptives, free whatever, or the DSWD by giving them money so that they may go to clinics?

 

Doesn’t that remind you of the Obama-McCain debate on health care? McCain argued that if you cut down taxes you put money in the hands of people that they can use for health care, and Obama argued that if you put money in health care you make sure people will use their health care. There’s just no way, even if you use police methods, that you can assure the money you give the poorest of the poor will go to their kids’ education or their own health. How on earth can that be an effective program?

 

More than this, have we forgotten how we railed against Arroyo ’s anti-poverty programs as cosmetic, or downright splotchy makeup? The CCT won’t reduce poverty, it will merely temporarily bring down the statistic on the number of poor by making some of them temporarily rich. Oh, yes, P500-P1,400 in the hands of the poor is untold wealth. They will go back to being permanently poor after the dole ends. Unless you mean it to be a permanent thing? In which case all you will do is make the poorest of the rich in the DSWD permanently rich.

 

It wasn’t very long ago when the same people who now cry “Charity!” used to cry “Justice!” When the same people who now preach “Give the poor fish” used to preach “Teach the poor how to fish.” When the same people who now chant the mantra “poorest of the poor” used to chant the mantra “sustainable development.” The last especially, crying as they did that pursuing growth that ravaged nature was not sustainable, relying on imports for food was not sustainable, giving alms to the poor, poorest of the poor or not, was not sustainable.

 

What a difference a year makes. What a difference a government makes.

 

I’m not exaggerating when I say that Efren Peñaflorida has done more for the poorest of the poor than all of those who like to say “poorest of the poor” today, and he did not have billions, all he had was a pushcart. You can’t be serious enough to want reform if you can’t be enlightened enough to see reform—and nowhere does reform come with a blazing neon sign than in the person of CNN’s Hero of the Year for last year, our hero of the year for all years. You want to give to the poorest of the poor in a way that gives dignity, justice and sustainability to them alongside it, then put P21 billion in the hands of Peñaflorida, or people like him, and multiply the number of kareton classrooms by the same amount Jesus Christ multiplied the loaves and fishes.

 

And of course put it in the hands of the DepEd, where it belongs, and not the DSWD, where it does not. That is sustainable.

 

The CCT is just insupportable.

 

Noy,

Mukhang pati itong tumulong sa iyo ay hindi na masikmura ang kaengotan mo

 

Editorial

Pathetic saber-rattling

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 05:06:00 10/18/2010

 

Is President Benigno Aquino III getting the proper legal counsel?

 

First, the Malacañang review of the report of the Executive inquiry into the Aug. 23 hostage-taking incident watered down the findings and recommendations of the fact-finding committee led by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. Since the review was made by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Eduardo de Mesa, it is presumed that the apparent whitewash of the case, the President himself announcing it live on television, had been their doing—or should it be undoing?

 

Now comes the President fuming before the Malacañang press over the Supreme Court’s order stopping his removal of a “midnight appointee” of his predecessor, and accusing the tribunal of blocking his program of reform. The sight was unseemly as it was dangerous. Here was the President pushing the country to a constitutional crisis, and over what? Over the petition of Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos seeking a stop to the implementation of the President’s Executive Order 2 rescinding the last-minute appointments of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The petition is just one among less than 10 petitions filed by so-called midnight appointees to contest the new President’s order of revocation. And it is the only one on which the high court has provided relief. “The fact that it covers only the Lucman petition shows that it is a class of its own and it cannot be invoked as a blanket remedy for all the so-called midnight appointees,” the Court’s spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said.

 

But just the same, the President, with none of his legal staff or star-studded communications staff speaking on his behalf, brought to the public his ugly displeasure. “This order will embolden hundreds of similarly situated appointees of the past administration who had already been replaced, resigned or recalled, to demand that they be reinstated or retained,” he said. “And having returned to their obtained posts, what can we expect from people who accepted illegal appointments?” The President’s remarks are fraught with non sequiturs and contortionist logic. How could those who have already resigned return to their posts? Why would they demand to be reinstated when in fact they had given up their offices? The last remark is particularly inane: “. . . [W]hat can we expect from people who accepted illegal appointments?” But has the Court restored them to their “illegal” posts? What indeed can we expect from them when none of them has been reinstated? Perhaps they themselves are at a loss, that’s why some of them have run to the Supreme Court to determine whether or not their appointments are legal.

 

And alas for Malacañang and its legal pundits and communication whiz kids burying their heads under the sand like ostriches and letting the President make a fool of himself before the public, none of the alleged midnight appointees can be stopped from running to the Supreme Court. The high court after all is the constitutionally empowered authority to rule with finality on legal and constitutional issues. To its credit, the Court, despite very obvious perceptions that it is beholden to the former administration that appointed the overwhelming majority of its magistrates, has carried itself with correct deportment on the issue. It has refused to issue a temporary restraining order against any of the three executive orders which the President has issued against the former administration’s late appointees. And among the late appointees’ petitions contesting the executive order that rescinded their appointments, only Lucman’s was granted relief.

 

The Court did not expand its powers and intrude into Executive prerogative when it issued the order. The order is just part of the power of judicial review that is the Court’s by virtue of the mandate given it by the Constitution. Through the judicial review, the validity of the appointments could be ascertained or disproved. In rescinding the appointments, the President believes that the appointments were made beyond the March 11, 2010 deadline imposed by the Constitution. If it has the goods, the administration must show them to the Supreme Court, along with other evidence. If it does not, then it should shut up. Saber-rattling is a sure way to push the nation into a constitutional crisis. And with the President doing it alone, bereft of correct advice from his legal staff and communications powerhouse whose jobs the President himself is doing single-handedly, the whole thing is pathetic.

 

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquirer...saber-rattling

 

One ala pa ginagawang mali si Pnoy..at agree ako na they will stage a coup kung paulit ulit na lang ang klase ng mga namumuno...kung tingin nila katangahan ang pinagagawa ni then by all means they are free to do what is right on their moral code and conscience

So kapag sinabi ng mga sundalong ito na mali ang ginagawa ng gobyerno, then you're saying they have the rights to take over the government....tsk..tsk.. I just hope na hindi ganito ang pag-iisip ng mga sundalo natin kung hindi, panigurado Somalia or Haiti ang kalalabasan ng bansa natin.

..Mali ang sabihin natin na trabaho nila ang pagiging sundalo..Hindi lang trabaho para sa karamihan ng hanay nila ang pagiging sundalo.Ito ay isang opportunity na mapagsilbihan ang bayan..Ano sa tingin ninyo ang sinimulan gawin nina Bonifacio at aguinaldo? As I said sir may moral obligations ang mg tao sa bayan hindi sa nakaupong presidente...Kung ang presidente ay sinasamantala ang kapangyarihan then dapat siyang palitan or alisin kung hindi siya kayang alisin ng ibang pamamaraan..

And you naively think na lahat ng sundalo natin ay puros sa kapakanan ng bayan ang interest. Hindi mo naisip na marami sa kanila ay may mga politikong nagpapatakbo at pansariling kapakanan lang ang iniisip

Kung tanga si Pnoy tingin ba ninyo magbibigay ng kusang tulong ang ibang bansa sa atin na linisin ang ating gobyerno? Ilang ulit na ba nag attempt manghingi ng assistance sina GMA sa ibang bansa pero ilang ulit tinanggihan..ngayon ilang buwan lang kay pnoy ibinigay na kaagad may $400M tayong pinagkaloob sa pinas...Kung tanga si pnoy so tanga rin ang mga taong bumoto sa kanya or yung mga nagsasabing tanga hindi lang matanggap na hindi na nila kayang gawin ang magpakasasa na ginagawa nila dati sa ibang administration..

I think you have a different definition of "tanga" so its useless to discuss it here.

One more thing ang mga magdalo ay mga junior officers na nagsawa na sa pagaalay ng buhay nila sa mga walang kuwentang namumuno na pinagsasamantalahan lang ang kaban ng bayan..Sila ang araw araw nakaharap sa mga kalaban at araw araw na nakikipaglaro sa kamatayan...

Kung ayaw nilang humarap kay kamatayan at kung hindi nila kayang sumunod sa mga namumuno sa kanila, magtinda na lang sila ng balot at nang hindi na sila nakakaperhuwisyo pa.

Gago ang iba diyan na sabihin na hindi na pwedeng mag isip ang mga sundalo..Hindi sila mga robot na itulak mo dun sila..So kung iorder ng higher officer na patayin lahat ng muslim without distinction dapat ba nilang gawin? Pikit mata nilang maulit ang nangyari sa Jabidah Massacre nung 1968? Bobo lang ang magsasabi na hindi na kailangan magisip ng mga sundalo natin porket trabaho nila ito..

Eh mas gago naman siguro yung iba dyan para isipin na tama lang na manggulo ang mga sundalo at mang hostage ng isang pribadong hotel at ilagay sa bingit ng kamatayan ang mga walang malay na sibilyan at sasabihin nila na pinaglalaban nila eh ang karapatan ng mamayan.

bakit sila nagpunta from mindanao to manila para magsimula ng coup? Di ba dahil nga sa nakikita nila ang corruption sa hanay nila kaya nila nagawa ang mga bagay na iyon? Yes the ends doesnt justify the means pero kung nakikita mo alang ginagawa ang nakaupo sa pwesto tingin mo mananahimik ka na lang at araw araw mo isasakripisyo ang buhay mo para sa mga namumunong hindi karapat dapat? Ikaw sir kung hindi mo gusto ang boss mo at lahat ng protest at complaint nagtetengang kawali lang ano ang gagawin mo? The difference is ang mga sundalo natin hindi tulad ng simple laborer na pwedeng mag resign..they put their oath to the country and lay down their lives for the country..Di nga dapat tawagin na military adventurism ito eh kungdi wake up call sa mga namumuno na hindi sila pwedeng magpalaki lang ng tiyan..you set an example and lead by example thats the military code...kung ang isang leader ay kayang ipagtanggol ang adhikain ng mga pinamumunuan niya makakasigurado siya na hanggang hukay sasamahan siya ng mga yan...you have to differentiate politics fom the military hindi magkatulad ng utak ang mga pulitiko natin at mga sundalo na puro self interest ang inuuna..Kung hindi ka tamang mamuno then matakot ka for mutinee..

Simple na nga lang ang tanong eh, kung may magtangka ulit na patalsikin ang gobyerno ni noynoy dahil sa tingin nila na ang katangahan at kabobohan ni noynoy ay magdudulot ng malaking kaguluhan at kahirapan sa bansa, do you think justifiable nilang gawin ito?

Kung satingin mo corrupt si gloria kaya pwedeng gawin yung mutiny na yun, pwbede mo ring sabihin na marami ring tao na nagiisip na ang katangahan at walang kaalaman ni nonoy ay grounds din para palitan siya di ba, so pwede ring agawin sa kanya ng miltar ang pahpapatakbo sa gobyerno.

Yung kay honasan is a different issue..its an issue of them not being able to tolerate woman in power and lets face it madaming pro marcos pa ring natira nung time na yun especially mga alipores ni Ver..the RAM revolution is not about helping the nation they want a revolutionary govt during that time..Giving amnesty to honasan kung ako ang tatanungin mo is not the same as giving amnesty to the magdalo lim and querubin...they fought for the many filipinos and for their brethren na nakikita nila ang pag ka corrupt ng mga namumuno sa kanila..mga bala na sa kanila dapat mapunta nagagamit pambaril sa kanila rin..

 

Btw yung iba diyan making insinuations about the relationship of Puno and Pnoy is below the belt..make sure na may kabuluhan ang pambabatikos hindi yung palengkero debate..

How are you sure that Trillanes and co. fought for corruption? At bakit kailangan nilang idamay ang mgs innocent citizens para ipaglaban nila yun? Bakit hindi sila naniniwala sa demokrasya ng balota at kailangan daanin sa dulo ng baril ang gusto nilang mangyari?

If some military adventurist will stage another coup because they think that noynoy is so weak and incompetent that he can lead this country to destruction, can you justify that?

Ang sa akin, hindi pwedeng pairalin ng mga sundalong ito ang mga personal agendas nila, meron tayong mga batas na pinaiiral kaya dapat sumunod sila dun. Kapag hahayaan natin lagi at bibigyang amnestiya yang mga sundalo na yan, darating ang araw na lahat na lang ng may ayaw sa gobyerno eh gagamitin ang armas nila para patalsikin ito.

Yes Pnoy giving amnesty to those that fight the oppressor should be credited..Matatakot lang sa mutinee ang mga hindi karapat dapat sa pwesto..Our armed forces are professional and patriots and would lay down their lives as their duty calls for it..But when your serving someones personal interest and not the people then the military is responsible for what is right and they are fighting for the people not for the politicians...

 

Jesus Came down to earth as declared by God and written in the bible 2000 Years ago..Was there any change? people got worse as civilization develops..The more civilize we get the more people will be abusing their free will..What jesus failed to do here on earth wants you critic to do in your 100 days...HAHAHAHAHA...man people can be so gullible by their own ideals..they forget that the benefit of the many super cedes their own..

So you also believe na ang mga kagaya ni Honasan ay dapat ding parangalan at nilabanan nila ang paging oppressor ni Cory Aquino?

Para mo naming sinabi na parangalan din natin yung mga NPA at ibang mga militating grupo kasi di ba ang pinaglalaban din naman daw nila ay kapakanan ng mga Tao?

Meron tayong eleksyon, bakit hindi yun ang ipaglaban nila at bakit kailangang gamtin nila ang mga baril nila para pwersahin ang sarili nila na mamuno sa bansa

Mike Chester,

 

Konting tanong lang. Di ba mutiny rin yung ginawa nina Gloria at Angie Reyes? If not, paki sabi nga dito kung ano yun.

If that one is mutinee then that doesn't mean we can justify the mutiny that was done by Trillanes.

At the same time sana pinatapos man Lang niya yung proseso ng judiciary bago sya nagbigay ng amnesty. Ano ba ang minamadali niya para palayain eto, bakit naka priority sa 1st 100 days niya Ito?

Ano bang kabutihan ang maidudulot sa bansa ng pagpapalaya niya kay Trillanes , is it for the benefit of the majority? Or it is for his own benefit?

Dear noy,

Do you really think letting Trillanes walks free after what he has done can do good in the country? FTW!!

You couldn't even wait for the court to decide on his case. eh paano kung may gumawa ulit ng mga mutinee na yan?

Aquino grants amnesty to Trillanes, mutineers

 

MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - President Benigno Aquino III has signed a proclamation granting amnesty to Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and other soldiers involved in the Oakwood Mutiny in July 2003, the Marine standoff last February 2006 and the Manila Peninsula siege in November 2007.

 

Aquino said what he signed was a proclamation and is subject to concurrence by Congress.

 

The President made the announcement in an ambush interview after visiting the launch of the Electronic Business Name Registration System (eBNRS) at the DTI-NCR Area 3 office at Highway 54 along EDSA.

 

Aquino said the Department of Defense will process the application for the amnesty once it is concurred in by Congress.

 

The proclamation is expected to be sent to Congress today, Aquino said.

 

Trillanes is in military detention for his involvement in 2 of the events, including the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny and the Manila Peninsula Siege.

 

Other top military officials involved in the mutinous plots are former Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and Marines Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda.

 

Lim, who ran for senator last May under President Aquino's political party, is involved in both the 2006 standoff and the Manila Peninsula Siege while Miranda is in detention for his alleged role in the Marine standoff.

 

In September, a group composed of prominent people came out with a full-page advertisement urging President Aquino to grant amnesty to the so-called Magdalo soldiers.

 

The group asked President Aquino to "grant amnesty to the active and former officers and enlisted personnel" of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) "who stood against the previous administration."

 

Among the signatories were former president Joseph Estrada, former Vice-President Teofisto Guingona Jr., former Senate Presidents Jovito Salonga and Ernesto Maceda, former Chief Justice Reynato Puno, former House Speaker Jose de Venecia and Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim.

 

"These soldiers have already suffered the consequences of their actions. They have paid their dues. We believe that it is the time for them to rebuild their lives, and in the process, contribute to rebuilding this nation," the ad stated.

 

Two months before the open letter came out, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima submitted to President Aquino its evaluation on the case of Trillanes.

 

This was after President Aquino ordered De Lima to review the coup d'etat charge against Trillanes since the elements of a coup were not present during the short-lived Oakwood mutiny.

 

"[Trillanes] was imprisoned because of Oakwood. My opinion is, and that is just my individual opinion, the fiscal should not have let that case prosper. There are several other cases but the coup d'etat case has specific requirements, which were not present. I think there was injustice there," the President said.

 

The statement sparked a brief debate at the Senate. Several senators criticized Aquino for allegedly meddling in a judicial matter.

 

Sen. Gregorio Honasan has proposed to file a bill in the Senate that will grant amnesty to junior officers who participated in the failed 2003 Oakwood Mutiny.

 

With reports from Ruby Tayag, radio dzMM and Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News.

Dear Noy,

I think this needs a good explanation from you....Increasing Pork Barrel and giving dole outs to the lazy people

THE Palace on Friday caved in to lawmakers’ demands and doubled the allocation to each congressional district—to a minimum of P145 million each from P70 million—in exchange for an end to a House revolt that threatened the speedy passage of next year’s P1.645-trillion national budget.

 

“We have reached an agreement with Budget Secretary [Florencio] Abad and they also realized the need for an equitable sharing,” House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte said after a closed-door caucus.

 

Under a deal worked out with Malacañang, congressmen who have an annual pork barrel allocation of P70 million will now also get P50 million in infrastructure projects for their districts, which will be identified and carried out by the Public Works Department, and a P25-million share in the road users’ tax to maintain national highways and bridges.

 

Belmonte assured the lawmakers that everybody would be treated fairly.

 

Some 112 lawmakers from the Visayas and Mindanao had threatened to block the passage of President Benigno Aquino III’s first budget on Wednesday if their districts were not given a larger share of the spending pie.

 

As part of the deal, the Palace agreed to dump its menu of projects that lawmakers may finance after congressmen complained that the process was “very restrictive and cumbersome.”

 

Belmonte said a new menu for pork-funded projects would promote “transparency and a pro-poor policy.”

 

In return for the Palace concessions, the lawmakers agreed to approve the national budget and to no longer question the administration’s P29-billion dole to poor families under its conditional cash transfer program, or its P15-billion fund for public-private partnership projects.

“We will approve the national budget after we were given an elbow room to start from scratch,” Belmonte said.

 

“The Palace menu was a little bit restrictive, so now we have elbow room to allocate funds to the needy districts.”

 

Belmonte said the Palace and the House would ask the Commission on Elections for an exemption from the election-period ban on the release of pork barrel.

 

“We are confident that the Comelec will grant our request for exemption,” Belmonte told reporters shortly after the all-member caucus.

 

“The pork barrel is not being withheld by the Palace. It will be released soon.”

 

But the deal angered the President’s allies in the party-list groups, who do not get any extra allocations.

 

“They have inflated the pork barrel from P70 million to P145 million at the minimum when we are supposed to abolish the pork,” Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello said.

 

“We are going to manifest it on the floor that what they are doing is contrary to the reforms and changes that President Aquino promised to do. Where are the promised reforms and good governance?”

 

Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño described the deal as a bribe in exchange for the P29-billion dole to the poor.

“I am shocked that the [budget Department] has agreed to give all district representatives an additional P50 million each from the 2011 [Public Works] lump sum,” Casiño said.

 

“This is on top of existing pork barrel funds. Is this the price Malacañang is willing to pay to ensure the smooth approval of its preferred pork, the conditional cash transfer?” Casino said.

 

“This is pork in exchange for pork.”

 

Referring to the President’s campaign slogan, he added in Filipino: “The straight path suddenly turns crooked when it comes to Congress.”

 

Belmonte said he would hold a separate meeting with the members of the party-list groups.

 

Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone was satisfied that his district would get more funding for infrastructure, which under the original budget proposal would have received only P1.8 million.

 

He said the deal showed that the Executive department was responsive to calls for an equitable distribution of the budget

I am sorry Mike Chester, but if I remember correctly, this bit of info came a day after the incident. Natabunan na lang siguro sa daming side issues. But the specific order was given. Kaya nga talagang si Gen. Magtibay ay walang lusot. He defied a direct order from the commander in chief himself. And for what? Petty branch rivalries (uso sa mga armed services).

Well, if it is indeed noynoy ordered that one, and he said that he was monitoring the situation, he could have seen clearly that there was a blatant insubordination on his command which causes the main kapalpakan of that tragedy. Dapat immediately he could have informed everyone that his command was not followed and he should immediately fired his generals, the insubordination already happened right under his nose.

But what happened was that after the incident he placed mainly the blame on the media and on the MPD, and none on the insubordination. Bakit hindi niya hinighlight na hindi sinunod ang pinag utos niya as Commander-in-Chief ng tatlong heneral niya?

That's why Im more inclined to believe that this report is just a whitewash para linisin ang pangalan ni noynoy.

The President gave the specific order to use the SAF. The ground commander did not follow this order. His head must roll. To his (Gen. Magtibay) credit. He willingly fell on his sword shortly after the incident.

I fully doubt the IIRC report when it was mentioned that you ask your colonel to send the message to your General to use the SAF.

Bakit wala sa mga naunang statements mo na inask mo na gamitin ang SAF? If you sincerely placed this command during the crisis bakit hindi mo nabanggit sa mga nauna mong press conferences ito at bakit sa IIRC report lang lumabas? Whitewash?

Dear Noy,

Why are you giving too much favors for these squatters:

1. P1400/monthly stipend for them

2. No Homework every friday

3. No demolition for them

Are you trying to be a hero from these lazy and abusive people??

Mike Chester this is a Dear Pnoy thread ..siguro naman may sarili kang opinion hindi mag Cut and Paste ng articles..I dissect mo muna yan pinost mo then saka ka mag bigay ng opinion..kinukuha mo lang opinion ng iba so hindi ka rin talaga someone na nagbibigay ng kuro kuro..timbangin mo ang facts then saka ka magsalita...the fact na madami bumabatikos sa kanya kasi he is the hotcake ngayon and he is the story...

Cumonyou this is a Dear Pinoy thread and you're suppossed to give your opinion and suggestion to nonoy and not to the poster.

Cut and paste articles as long as it is relevant to the topic is not at all violation to the rules.

Anyway back to the topic,

Dear nonoy,

how come you fired the Pag-asa chief without any due process and you cannot do the same thing to your chosen people kahit obvious na yung kapalpakang ginawa nila.

Bakit ba kailangang hatiin ang obligasyon sa DILG? Yan ba ay pagtanaw ng utang na loob sa Samar and Balay group kaya kailaangan parehas silang may maiupong tao dyan?

Hey Pnoy

 

Maging matatag ka lang at madami ang kalaban...sabi nga nila kung madaming kalaban means madaming tinatamaan!!! the more enemies you get the better must be on how you run the govt...kasi hindi ka aaray kung hindi ka natatapakan...

Dear noy,

Indeed you have to be strong at wag lalamya-lamya at kaliwat kanan na ang nakakakita ng kahinaan mo. Better read this article and it might give you some hint on where you are now:

ASIA HAND

Exalted Aquino has far to fall

By Shawn W Crispin

MANILA - Yellow flags stamped with portraits of President Benigno Aquino's deceased politician parents wave along the capital's historic Roxas Boulevard. It is one of the ironies of Philippine politics that high hopes for change are so closely associated with death and disappointment. One of the flags, bearing the likeness of Aquino's assassinated father, reads: "Filipinos are worth dying for."

Aquino's rise to the presidency earlier this year owed largely to the timing of his mother's death from natural causes. The passing of former president Corazon Aquino, viewed by many Filipinos as a model Catholic and rare moral politician, sparked an outpouring of public grief that Benigno and his campaign managers were able to leverage ingeniously into campaign messages of hope and change.

Since taking office, Aquino has signaled the need for deep-reaching reforms and with his family's good name restored a modicum of public trust in government after Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's scandal-plagued tenure. He has also enjoyed halcyon days with the country's media, with business newspaper headlines beaming about the "Aquino effect" on resurrected consumer and business confidence.

But how long can the epiphany last? The Philippines takes many of its cultural and political cues from the United States, one of its former colonial rulers. In many ways, the Aquino exuberance that has swept the Philippines mirrors that of the early days of US President Barack Obama's heady, historic rise to power in 2008.

The buzz wore off in Washington with revelations that Obama was serving rather than punishing the big banks and insurance companies that led the country into economic and financial crisis, and that he recanted on his campaign trail promise to wind down costly US military adventurism after assuming the power of commander-in-chief.

Filipinos desperately need a new era of moral government, one that sheds reform light on the darkness of endemic corruption, cultures of violence and impunity, and stubbornly high unemployment and poverty rates. It is a matter of melancholy fact that the Philippines top earning export is labor, representing 25% of the active workforce, rather than homegrown manufactures or innovations.

While election-related spending and global recovery drove economic growth up 7.3% in the first quarter, unemployment nonetheless rose from 7.5% to 8% year on year in April, underscoring the challenge of creating enough jobs to keep pace with rapid population growth. Self-rated poverty and hunger rates declined quarter on quarter through March, yet 43% of Philippine households considered themselves impoverished and 24% as suffering from hunger, according to Social Weather Service surveys.

In a recent report, the World Bank noted that "Aquino's core electoral platform rested on improving governance and reducing corruption so as to reduce poverty" and that “these elections generated large hope for reforms and tackling well known structural bottlenecks, especially corruption - the perception of which has increased steadily over the past years as reported by various international cross country indices."

Nonetheless, diplomats and other seasoned foreign observers are skeptical that Aquino will be able to leverage his strong mandate and favorable family history into substantive political, economic and social change. Privately, Aquino's aides look askance at Obama's popular slippage and express concerns about the similarly steep expectations surrounding their reformist government.

Rule by gun

Unlike many of the Philippines' regional peers, where the legacies or realities of military rule have led to an over-concentration of central power over peripheral regions, the Philippines arguably suffers from central authority deficit. Political family clans rule entire provinces as fiefdoms and often treat local government budgets as personal coffers, a phenomenon US academic Alfred McCoy famously and rightly referred to as an "anarchy of families".

That anarchy resulted in last year's Maguindanao massacre, where one political clan armed with its own tanks and private militia murdered the relatives of another in an orgy of local election-related violence that left 57 dead. The accused perpetrators, members of the dominant Ampatuan clan, secured votes in the region for outgoing president Arroyo at the 2004 elections.

The massacre underscored the pressing need for more central authority over the country's many lawless and violence-prone provincial areas, where the police, courts and local officials perpetuate rather than check the abuses of powerful clans. In many murder cases across the country, the Supreme Court has ordered trials moved to Manila due to the perceived lack of independence of local courts and judges.

While Europe convicts about 90% of its murder suspects, and the US approximately 60%, the Philippines conviction rate is less than 10%, according to the European Union's Philippine Justice Support Program. The lawlessness, including rising violence against and kidnappings of foreigners, has hampered the country's ability to attract foreign investment and tourism to its impoverished, but often resource-rich and picture-perfect, hinterland areas.

Despite a decentralization drive, local governments still derive most of their income from the national government, accounting for 90% in the provinces, 70% in the cities and 86% in municipalities. A recent Asia Foundation survey raised questions about budget transparency issues, concluding that "much work needs to be done to improve local governments' public disclosure systems". It noted that information on budgets, expenditures, and financial reports are still not shared with the general public.

To curb abuse and restore rule by law in the provinces, Aquino will need to show a hitherto undemonstrated brand of strong leadership. Aquino failed to distinguish himself as an authoritative legislator during his years in the House of Representatives and Senate, and people familiar with his management style say he inherited more of his mother's reticence than his father Ninoy Aquino's oratory and tendency towards confrontation.

That was apparent to some in Aquino's duck-and-hide handling of the recent hostage crisis in Manila that resulted in the deaths of a number of foreign tourists by a disgruntled police officer and his bumbling diplomacy in the aftermath that unnecessarily stoked bilateral tensions with China, the country's largest provider of official development assistance.

If he remains devout to his reform rhetoric, Aquino will soon find himself working at loggerheads with political, legal and law-enforcement systems that are effectively broken, particularly at the provincial and local levels where his promise of political change resonated most deeply. The Maguindanao massacre case, which his government has referred to as a "litmus test" for the judicial system, will due to legal maneuvers likely last longer than Aquino's six-year tenure.

One senior Manila-based diplomat suggests that tackling provincial clans won't be enough to live up to popular expectations and that Aquino must challenge the "De La Salle-UP crowd", a reference to the country's top two universities' politically and commercially influential alumni, to achieve genuine reform.

Some believe that Manila's elites could instead reach a consensus under Aquino and lend their support to reforms that modernize the bureaucracy and economy and in the process increase the size of the economic pie they now dominate. Rallying them around measures that promote more social justice, wealth redistribution and human rights, if history is a guide, will meet stiff resistance.

Because Aquino hails from a well-educated family clan with vested interests in land holdings and private business, similar to the outgoing Arroyo, his commitment to justice and reform is still uncertain. Although his mother's time in power is now viewed nostalgically, she failed to achieve crucial land and other wealth redistributing reforms.

As the next generation of Aquinos enters Malacanang Palace, despite the euphoria and promise, there is a real risk that despair will outlast hope and that once again Filipinos will have bowed before a false messiah.

Shawn W Crispin is Asia Times Online's Southeast Asia Editor.

Dear Noy,

If austerity measures is the one you are trying to implement on your administration, then how come you want to increase your pork barrel from 0.8 Billion to 1 Billion on next year budget?

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=609222&publicationSubCategoryId=63

http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100906com2.html

Dear noy,

I hope hindi mo tinutulugan ang mga events na inaatenand mo llike the Ramon Magsaysay Awarding ceremony, nahuhuli ka tuloy madalas sa camer...tsk...tsk...

Nonoy,

How can you be so tactless on your words by saying that this issue of hostage taking will only be laughable in 2 years time. For goodness sake you are the president of the country and everything you utter especially to the media counts

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100907-290867/Aquino-We-will-overcome-crisis

Aquino: We will overcome crisis

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 02:30:00 09/07/2010

Filed Under: Grandstand Hostage, hostage taking, Crisis

MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday night said that the country would quickly get past the Aug. 23 bloodbath that killed eight Hong Kong tourists and prompted a global condemnation of his administration’s ineptness in handling the crisis.

“Sandali na lang yan eh malalaktawan na ho natin, talagang tinuturo tayo na mas buo doon sa daan na tuwid,” Mr. Aquino said in a speech he delivered at the wake of former Olongapo City Mayor Teodoro Macapagal, a longtime supporter.

Roughly translated, what he said was that the tragedy would not last very long, that Filipinos would get it over with and the event was simply pointing the nation to the right path, the catch-all of his election campaign.

“Our problems now, in two or three years we can say that they are laughable when we recall that they were not that grave,” Mr. Aquino said in Filipino.

Christine Avendaño

Got this from anotther website:

Noynoy,

When you were inaugurated as my country's president, you said:

KAYO PO ANG BOSS KO. (You are my boss.)

With barely three months in service, you have showed me a very dismal performance. I am disappointed.

I never liked you. I never wanted you to become president. In fact, to vote for you never became a choice. But what is more hateful at this point is that you are giving me all the reasons why I should not regret not liking you, not wanting you to become president, and not voting for you.

Personally, I do not think that I should expect a lot from you since you do not owe me a vote. And hence you can count my criticism and satisfaction as dispensable. But how about the 15 million others? Are theirs as dispensable as mine?

I have a lot of questions. And as your boss, I demand you to answer them. No smirking and no stupid excuses. Just clear-cut answers.

ON YOUR [iN]CAPABILITY

Why did you not save that bus full of innocent lives when you have all the power in your disposition to do so? Where were your high officials who could have dealt with the situation, if you think you could not? You have served the Committee of Public Order and Safety during the time you were in Congress. [Did you even serve it at all?] Then why did I not see neither public order nor safety last Monday?

Why did you not censor the media when you thought in the first place that it needs control? Press freedom, I get that. Eight innocent lives, how do you actually explain?

ON YOUR [AB/PRE]SENCE

Where were you? If you say you were in a closed-door meeting, why did you take so long? If that meeting was really about the situation, why did it still end in that tragic accident? While your presence does not necessarily guarantee the resolution of the ordeal, your absence was definitely no help either, if it had not made the matters worse.

But whether your presence could have made the matter the same or better, one point is clear. Your participation in that drama could have made a different ending. Possibly even better.

ON YOUR INDIFFERENCE

Why did you let the rampage result in a bloodbath of 8 Chinese nationals? Are they dispensable to you because you did not get votes from them? Which puts me into thinking, if you can live not giving the good service deserved of those who voted for you, all the more can you ignore those who did not. So can you definitely ignore those who never will.

When you were inaugurated, together with 80 other countries, China’s delegation was be led by National People’s Congress Vice Chairman Yan Junqi. Now tell me, can you still say that you were worthy of attention? If you have been indifferent to a country as big as China, how about the 80 others?

ON YOUR [iN]ACTION

Why did you not take HK CE Donald Tsang's call? What is too difficult in answering a mobile phone and saying "Hey you're people are held hostages in a bus and are about to die but I think it is not until I let my incompetent policemen storm it so you can sit back, relax, and let the rampage unfold in your TV screen, REAL-TIME." Or at the very least, what is too difficult in ordering one of your pawns in your chessboard to send the message across? Not having to wait for them to find out from your nosy media men who reported things blow-by-blow and who, if any, share the blame.

At close to midnight, you acted. You showed yourself in front of the whole Philippines and the world and excused your incapable police. Lack of guns. Lack of tactics. But you did not admit your lack of action. On August 24, you declared the next day [August 25] as National Day of Mourning. Why only then? Because HK had already done theirs? To show that "at least" we did?

ON YOUR AFOOLOGY

You said you were sorry for what have happened. But what made the matter resort to the worst scenario in the first place? Was it not partly your fatal incapability to delegate your people and employ your powers as president? With some smirks, one and two, you said that you are sorry for what happened. But where was sincerity? Did it hide behind your smiles? Because it was never heard in your messages. Not even in your actions.

You made yourself look like a fool in public. You made your people look like fools. Now we are the laughing stock of the world. They have called us monkeys, they have called us subservient dogs. But all you do is to give them reasons to continue doing so. All you do is to prove them that by being a president, we really are but monkeys and subservient dogs.

When I was in the university, I came to know who Plato is. Do you know him? Did you know him? He said:

Justice means keeping a just order. Everybody should do what he does best and stay out of everybody else’s business. If every citizen does what he is assigned to do, not because he is ordered to do it, but because he enjoys doing it, justice will reign. Citizens won’t harm each other and the state will flourish because, on the one hand, justice leads to harmony and unity, while injustice, on the other hand, leads to sedition and revolution.

Have you been giving us the justice that we deserve? Are you doing what you do best and staying out of everybody else's business? Are you doing your job as a president not because you are ordered to do it but because you enjoy doing it? If so, then why are people harming each other and the state is not flourishing? Why is there no justice and unity? Are we leading to sedition and revolution?

Do not get me wrong. I love you as a person (read: I love all persons) because I have been taught to love and not to hate. But to love you as a president is something that is difficult for me to do. I love you as a person so I want you to do something that you do best, something that you will enjoy doing. And being president, it seems, is not what it is.

Do not get me wrong. I love my country (read: I love all countries) because I have been taught to love my family and my neighbors. But to love my country with you heading it is something that is difficult for me to do. I love my country that is why I am doing this, I am saving it at least its face if there is even something left for me to save. I am starting to fear that the day might come when the only reason why I love my country is because this is my country and nothing else.

When you were elected, let me just remind you, you embodied hope. With and from the 7,107 islands of this archipelago, you embodied unity. And that is why 15 million voted for you. Have they voted wrongly? Or have the 20 million others who did not choose you voted rightly? Only you can say. But we need not another word from you, we need a lot of [pragmatic] actions.

My last request: Use your position wisely. With that, I mean you should do action equipped with the deepest understanding of things. It is because when you do not understand what you are doing that things go astray. If you have to take extra time for that, then do so. Why should not you? You are the person tasked to do that. As how we have expected the policemen to do police work because that is what they have been assigned to do.

Let not our 7,107 islands remain a mere archipelagic territory they call monkey country. Make it a human nation. Let not our 90 million citizens remain subservient citizens. Make them proud and dignified nationals.

Never settle for what is "least" and never excuse yourself by saying "we cannot do anything anymore". A lot of us are already contemplating on our being Filipino. Please be reminded that in order for us to live, we need not only the basic food, clothing, shelter, and water. We also need our dignity and sense of being people. Unite us. After all, that was the only thing that I know you promised to do.

I never liked you. I never wanted you to become president. In fact, to vote for you never became a choice. But please, prove me, and 20 million others, wrong. Why? Kasi KAMI ANG BOSS MO (We are your boss).

Dear noy,

Gloria may be corrupt during her time but she handled every crisis in her administration very well.

I am not a big fan of Gloria but with the kind of weak leadership you showed in the eyes of the whole world, I feel the country was more stable and safe before than now..

Dear President,

Pwede ba wag ka na lang magbigay ng mga impromptu interviews. Just leave the talking sa spokesperson mo. Kasi the more you talk, the more it shows how shallow your line of thinking is. Parang hindi nababagay sa isang Presidenteng katulad niyo ang mga kinikilos at sinasabi nyo sa publiko. Mamumuno kayo sa 80 million na Pilipino sa loob ng 6 na taon, hindi kayo pwedeng lalamya-lamya sa inyong pananalita at gawa. Ang isang leader, lalo nat presidente ng isang bansa ay dapat karespe-respeto at hindi magmukhang uto-uto.

At saka pwede po ba, for goodness sake, bakit nyo naman kinokonsidera si BOY ABUNDA bilang miyembro ng gabinete ninyo. Biro-biro lang naman ng nakakararami iyon eh, hindi ko akalaing tototohanin ninyo!! Ganun na ba kahirap kumuha ng qualified na tao sa Pinas at pati si BOY ABUNDA na kitang-kita mo ang kalaswaan sa kanyang pagiging bakla sa TV ay gagawin niyong isa sa mga cabinet officials nyo!!

Bakit kya hindi na lang mag counter demand si Manny na if ever mag coconduct siya ng Test, e dapat ang hatian ay 55-45. Eto ang deal na wala siyang katalo-talo :-)

http://atdhe.net/8921/watch-manny-pacquiao-vs-joshua-clottey

pasok na si Manny