"Kayo ang aking boss" what does it mean?#KBL (Kasal, Binyag, Libing

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From Sona of Pnoy - from Inquirer



Rizal  Philippines   |  October 9, 2014

For all we know, this is a political gimmickiry.  All aimed at getting votes.

That means too that the President must pay the price:   favors, employment,  contracts, and maybe DAP and PDAF.

No less than the President himself declared war vs KBL -  Kasal Binyag Libing.  They pose difficulty for all elected govt officials.  Yet political patronage, our political system, the slogan. "kayo ang aking boss" dictates that the elected official given in to that. Such a contradiction.

Is DAP savings, is it constitutional?

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Rizal Philippines  July 26, 2014

The Philippine Supreme Court has declared the DAP (Development Accelerated Program) to be unconstitutional.   As I thought then, ,  and arguments of Fr. Joaquin Bernas, and examining the provision of the constitution, it was unconstitutional.  However the defenders noted the "...except provision"  So they won the round 1.  And then the recent arguments said, GMA did this before.  However fmr. Budget Secretary Diokno was quick to point out that savings is different from DAP.

DAP realigns the budget, funds to the project that his office or the politician so desires.  So the budget process is corrupted.

The offshoot of this development is the filing of impeachment charges vs Pnoy and decline in his popularity.  That he used this as reward (P50 million each) for those who voted for SC Corona impeachment can be bribery.  Except that he used the peoples money, not his...(Well that is after the fact.  Only CIA is bribery.... Is that so)

However the Pres has the numbers, and he is very unlikely to be impeached any time soon, and may not affect his stature for the last year of his term.  However, the truth is out...

CIA  - Cash In Advance

Impeachment vs Pres Pnoy very unlikely to progress beyond filing

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Rizal Philippines  July 23, 2014

Repost from ABS CBN news -2nd impeach complaint filed vs Pnoy

This corner would laud the courage of the youth groups and Party List Representatives  for filing impeachment raps vs Pres. Pnoy.  However they do not have the numbers. The LP in the house, led by the Pres has the numbers.  And if they got the DAP largasse, the chair of the committee in charge of handling this complaint, said that it is unlikely that those who got DAP funds will inhibit themselves from deciding on the DAP issue.

The issue of corruption behind DAP is clear here.  There are very few good men who will remain the decide on what is right because the DAP has corrupted them.  They will not abandon the party or the man who provided them the DAP funds.  Those in power may not have amassed the wealth and the funds but they got the patronage that they wanted to stay in power.  Who needs money in this case. YOu need money to stay in power,  Power was obtained not by dirtying the hands but by tweaking the law.

So Pres Pinoy need not worry.

Tax collection efforts will lose traction because of DAP and PDAF

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Philippines December 10, 2013



Our friends remarked and they are under BIR tax audit, that voluntary willful payment of taxes would have been the order of the day were it not for the PDAF and DAP events.  It would have been tuwid na daan and many would be willing to pay their taxes promptly and faithfully.  But not after PDAF.  With the wanton wastage of the taxpayers money, with the plunder and stealing that is going on at the highest level (without the PNoys knowledge) we cant expect belligerence or revolt on the part of the taxpayers.   Their agressiveness in  tax collection should be matched with care and diligence how that money must be spent

Is DAP constitutional? Atty. Mel Sta Maria of Ateneo Law School thinks it is!

 

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Some Senators:  Joker, Miriam and Lacson say it is unconstitutional;  even constitution expert Fr. Joaquin Bernas, SJ says so.  However looking at Section 25 (5)of  Article VI says it is:


No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer

of appropriations; however, the President,

the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the Hou

se of Representatives, the Chief Justice of

the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional

Commissions may, by law, be authorized

to augment any item in the general appropriations l

aw for their respective offices from

savings in other items of their respective appropri

ations.

Atty Mel Sta Maria who teaches at Ateneo Law School thinks it is constitutional (At Interaksyon)  Fr. Bernas may have forgotten, the "however" provision

Sec Ricky Carandang says DAP is constitutional - Interaksyon

Many personalities call the Disbursement Acceleration Program unconstitutional and illegal - another impeachment in the offing?

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                                          Fr Bernas on DAP -  illegal and unconstitutional


From ABS CBN news | October 1 2013

At least 3 Senators (two incumbent - Ping and Miriam) and former (Joker) called the Disbursement Acceleration Program as unconstitutional.  No law allows the "juggling of funds" as it were without appropiate legislation from Congress.   The PDAF may have been corrupted but its disbursement/creation was legal.

About a billion pesos were appropiated for senators (P50 million each) post SC Corona impeachment.  PNoy defended it as being post event and therefore is not a bribe.

Several personalities are questioning the constitutionality the DAP before the Supreme Court.

Fr. Joaquin Bernas, a constitution expert has all ready expressed his view that DAP is illegal and unconstitutional!

So  PDAF + DAP = HOLDAP?

If we are consistent with impeachment of Corona, we should impeach responsible people for this.

Tamang daan, tuwid na daan?

What do you think?