Now that the shit has hit the fan, a large number of people that are deeply involved in stealing money from government through the aid of their unscrupulous counterparts in the business sector, are in very hot waters. The public relations contractors of these thieves are working 24/7 - some of them reportedly hard at work in earning many, many millions of pesos from this man-made disaster of unimaginable proportions, since 2011, 2012 and this year. Working side by side with these media spinners are the law offices of the government people in cahoots with their devious private sector partners in crime.
Aside from the faceless silent majority made up of the teeming masses, the middle class that are beginning to get restive, among the many forgotten sectors in society are the peacekeepers and those that keep the peace and order in our communities, the armed forces, the police and other law enforcement agencies.
In the face of the massive corruption perpetrated by the political comnunity, the bureaucracy and the private business as well as the non-profit sectors, with funds being thrown away like it were personal property and the dispenser has the birthright of indiscriminately spreading the money to mendicant hands north, south, east and west, it is peculiar that the statement by the Reform Officers' Union (ROU) is shunted by media spinners such as this writer of a dubious weblog site.
The ROU is touted to be highly suspect and that the troublesome stirrings are probably just being created by a former chief executive who has been arrested and placed in detention for nearly the entire length of the term of office of the successor, Mr. Benigno S. Aquino 3rd.
The 3rd says that it is time to run after predecessor so a case was filed in the courts for another round of political bashing. Meanwhile, the air is rife with anxiety over the possible outcomes of nearly hundreds of billions of known and unknown expenditures that are outside of the realm of any Philippine government to be wasting away. The media doctors are busy spinning away layers after layers of lies and yet the true picture has truly emerged of an incurably corrupt system that can no longer stem its hunger for stashing billions in secret accounts here and overseas.
Departments like the national defense and interior and local governments, receive a pittance of the multi-trillion General Appropriations Act over the past three years. From 2010 to the 2014 fiscal year, the Philippine budget has ballooned by 150% over the entire term of Mr. Aquino to 2.26 Trillion Pesos. In 2010, when Mr. Aquino ascended to the presidency, the total national budget was 1.541 trillion. In 2011, it was merely 1.645 trillion. By 2012 Mr. Aquino increased government spending to 1.816 trillion.
Between the second half of 2010 to the present, that is about three years and up to the first quarter of 2014, the Aquino administration incurs roughly an increment in government spending of 38% up to 40% per year. If you go to any government office and make cursory complaints, inquiries, no government functionary unless very, very well acquainted with you will welcome you with open arms, treat you to decent coffee and snacks and render you service from the bottom of their hearts. The only exceptions are highly selective units of government where the superiors are real human beings, compassionate or patriotic, more than pragmatic and materialist.
The common buzzword will always be: "Wala kaming pera dito / Walang pera ang gobyerno." But this has been an ancient song in the government since more than 20 years ago. The atmosphere in government offices in the Marcos administration was more brisk and lively. The late budget secretary, Emilia Boncodin, the real power behind Mrs. Janet L. Napoles' rise to uber stardom, who funneled billions to Napoles' fake NGOs, including mostly non-profits with dead people whose names were painstakingly lifted from local cemeteries and civil registrar's inventories of death certificates, had the courage to tell Congress that the budget for implementing the Republic Act creating the Philippines' National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) patterned after the United States model.
To implement the law creating the NTSB in 1997-1998, all that was required was a seed fund of 50 Million Pesos, a tiny figure compared to the multi-billions of funds being stolen from government left and right by politicians, bureaucrats like the late Boncodin, Napoles, Zaldy Co, and their subalterns. Thus far, the effects of the non-creation of such an agency has resulted in tens of thousands of land, sea, air accidents and mishaps, both on record and unrecorded.
Severe hunger and illness from exposure to elements due to lack of shelter looms ahead for refugees of recent conflicts in Southern Philippines, all around the country farmers, workers and the masses are dying to make ends meet out of the small income from meager employment, a gargantuan storm of social problems beset the people and yet we have this glaring evidence of throwing away money to friends, allies, present and former colleagues, and most especially relatives. This is a totally unacceptable situation that these men and women in the halls of power have placed the entire country into. Still these greedy creatures keep justifying their notorious, dastardly acts over national media through their media doctors day in and day out.
It will not be very long before all the affected sectors will suddenly come to silent agreement to be rid of the source of the problem. Then, perhaps what many foreign observers have been waiting to see happen in the Philippines similar to what took place in many other troubled states will come to pass. A regime change might occur, thanks to the culprits' awakening of the sleeping lion that is the silent majority.
Credits for above right photo: Philippine Daily Tribune September 12, 2013 issue
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