Comments on: Pork Barrel Republic: SONA coverage

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:52:24 +0000

Good day!

I’m curious, is there any law regulating pork barrel?

By: kevinson

kevinson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:59:49 +0000

ahahaha ang saya naman may mga nagaaway na opisyal… ang saya ng mundo

By: bea

bea — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:54:55 +0000

pgma’s sona are all lies!

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:28:15 +0000

boyet, i don’t know if anyone has calculated costs that way. i believe the national budget is on line, but it’s in pdf form.

By: Boyet

Boyet — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:06:58 +0000

MLQ, do you a data on how much we are spending for the salary of our congressmen and its staff, how much were spent every time they will have a session that in the end wont be complete. jom i think is right, we should have a unicameral system, compose of senators. If we want reprentation, our LGU can do that. THat way, we minimize the unnecessary expenditure and corruption by our dear congressmen.

By: Boyet

Boyet — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:06:27 +0000

MLQ, do you a data on how much we are spending for the salary of our congressmen and its staff, how much are spent every time they will have a session that in the end wont be complete. jom i think is right, we should have a unicameral system, compose of senators. If we want reprentation, our LGU can do that. THat way, we minimize the unnecessary expenditure and corruption by our dear congressmen.

By: ay_naku

ay_naku — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:35:33 +0000

why donâ€™t you also cite the number of â€œpoor peopleâ€ who can now eat when they want to? what about the increase in population – most of which in the â€œhungry poorâ€ category of society? the last i heard, there are now 86 or so million filipinos in the philippines and balooning day after day.
and what about the causes of hunger – arenâ€™t those a factor too – other than lack of money to buy food, i.e., indolence, vices, mendicancy, a warped sense of free â€œentitlementâ€?
to paraphrase one antonio taberna of abs-cbn, â€œang tamad ay walang karapatang kumainâ€.

Positive economic news, all credit to the president. Negative economic news, blame the people for being lazy and full of vices. You blast a lot of people here for being too one-sided and never giving the president any credit, but you are the same, except in reverse: you credit GMA for every positive thing (whether real or not) and blame either the opposition or (gasp) the people for the negative things that are happening.

By: Jeg

Jeg — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:12:19 +0000

Bencard: do you think our government is capable of raising the funds necessary to finance all your idealistic proposals – when it can barely pay the interests on old foreign debts?

Excellent question! Did you listen to the SONA? Did you also ask the same question then?

in regard to the local banks used by foreign investors, you know as well as i do that banks are in business to make money whether from locals or foreigners.

No problem with local banks making money. How about foreign multinational banks?

By: Bencard

Bencard — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:58:13 +0000

and how do you propose to do all that, jeg. more tax and spend or print more bills? and do you really think that will transform the lives of the “hungry poor” overnight? do you think our government is capable of raising the funds necessary to finance all your idealistic proposals – when it can barely pay the interests on old foreign debts?

it maybe that foreign investors’ net earnings get to be remitted to their home countries. but the taxes on their gross earnings remain here, and the employment generated by their investments benefit no one else but the filipino worker who in turn pays more taxes on their wages. these taxes mean more revenue for the government to be used for development, including infrastructure projects, education and social services, among others.

in regard to the local banks used by foreign investors, you know as well as i do that banks are in business to make money whether from locals or foreigners. nothing is free. they don’t give away free money to anyone, foreigner or not. if our banks make money, it couldn’t be bad for
us, would it?

that, jeg, is, to my mind, the fundamentals of “trickle down” economics.

By: jc

jc — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:31:31 +0000

Pork Barrel Republic, I like that. Indeed, tt’s all about Pork. May I use it as my blog’s name?

BTW, there’s a Swine Flu scare reported over the radio this morning.

Regards!