WHILE the Aquino govt pounds its political enemies over allegations of corruption, it is quietly trying to slip the biggest illegal diversion of funds in history under our very noses with the aid of Congress who think nothing of railroading bad legislation through the mill if the correct palms are greased. The legislation in question is none other than the P2.606 Trillion national budget for 2015, which, if the administration gets its way, will have 100 pages of changes—deviously disguised as “errata”—that the majority of lawmakers never examined or debated before the General Appropriations Act was passed on second reading. Those among us who take the legislative process seriously are compelled to ask: How can Congress pass a law when it has not examined it, much less debated on it? Where is the careful deliberation of how public funds are spent? . . Re: Errata. Unbelievable that this the administration would have us believe that the clerical staff of the DBM is so inept that it can make 100 pages of typographical errors on such an important document. Given this administration’s shoddy record with the Disbursement Acceleration Program, parts of which were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, these changes are of a more substantive nature and would subvert and corrupt the budgeting process. They must be opposed at every step. Source: The Manila Times, Subverting the Budget, Oct 27, 2014 Photo: The Rappler
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 06:45:46 +0000
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