"DAP was said to be formulated in 2011 to “ramp up spending and help accelerate economic expansion.” Now the executive branch is saying spending from legislature speeds up economic expansion? Which is which? With PDAF, they question the identification of projects as already implementation? With DAP, what do you call their reasoning? The timing is also questionable. Timing of releases were made last quarter of 2012 but two got theirs earlier in August 2012. So please pray tell me, how can senators “accelerate economic expansion” when re-electionists filed their Certificate of Candidacies in October 2012. How can they accelerate when there is a public works ban because of the campaigns that started February 2013. Abad is in quicksand here. Then Abad said the releases came from Personnel Services and Unprogramed funds. PS is achieved from Accretion Law and rationalization of positions In the bureaucracy. Imagine PS to be used for discretionary? Shouldn’t those be savings and be realigned before usage? Unprogramed funds are realized depending on collections. I smell presidential pork there. Then Abad said DAP “will boost government spending” so I ask how? DAP will “expand the economy” so again I ask how? And hold on to your sits . . . ”it led to growth from 3.6% to 6-7%.” Madre mia, so the Legislative Branch is now the engine of economic growth? Handling it a lot better than the Executive Branch or contributing more than the combined strength of the OFW remittance? A bad explanation! Abad further explains with the matching “tigas ng mukha” that DAP is “valuable fiscal tool for accelerating government spending and the delivery of goods and services to the people, not as an instrument of political coercion.” So, please release more Information on how DAP was used and let the taxpayers decide if indeed there was delivery of needed goods and needed services. Accelerating government spending is a given in discretionary spending, you know that Mr. Abad! If indeed Abad was concerned about transparency, then he should have done so before the privilege speech of Mr. Estrada. If indeed the senators wanted a clean bill of health, they should have disclosed the information even before the Estrada speech. They should have revealed receiving additional pork before the Blue Ribbon seriously tacked pork. Now that the Pandora box is open, explaining is an afterthought; writing a script smacks of doublespeak and we are all stupid. As Madonna starts a revolution, a 17 minute movie on FOI, Abad prevaricates. The ideologue and brain thrust of this administration has resulted in total betrayal of public trust. I used to have a high regard of Abad. Today, he is a bad dream that we need to shake off for all the obvious reasons.Sad." imanilatimes.net/its-abad-stupid/40900/
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:37:44 +0000
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