This post has high hopes for the new Committee on Appropriations chair Mikaela Suansing, a Philscience scholar, Ateneo Graduate, and Harvard Masters on Public Policy to be unlike her predecessor Co, who figured in what some say as more corrupt budget.
It did not happen with former head of said committee Sid Ungab
However, she cant do much when bicam meetings and minutes are sidestepped and there are insertions
Couple who now are multi billionaires featured by a network, being such after being a contractor with now notorious govt department, with palatial homes and 40 luxury cars (with some costing P20 to 30 million each, AN INSPIRATION.
Did the couple pay the interviewers? As stated by a MM mayor?
Japanese and Filipino soldiers met in the WW2 war theater before. And now as allies, they had joint military exercise/drills in Mindanao.
The Japanese military officer expressed his admiration for the Filipino counterpart for being patient, uncomplaining and tough.
All of us grew in hardships, tempered in hardship: poverty, lack of infrastructures, disasters: earthquake, typhoons diseases. And even adverse govt leadership.
An admiration a tribute from a former adversary from the 3rd richest country is something to be proud of and work doubly harder on.
There are surveys and conversation going around: if you want to be super rich, a millionaire or billionaire, what would your career be? It is no longer being a superb businessmen with lots of self improvement and sacrifice. A group says be a contractor; another said DP.. contractor, and others said be a ....man. What silly and bad answers. A loss of sense of morality and right.
1. Surely there was a lack of oversight. The auditors and the Secy of the Dept was sleeping (or worse in cahoots)
2. That this went on for sometime means, it has blessing of higher ups (and therefore participates in the sharing. Napoles we think was taught if not just encouraged to carry out the PDAF loophole to to her thing.
3. That the head pretends not to know this, feigning surprise is surprising.
4. The conversation gives bad example to the young: that it is ok to steal big time in the country, that the big time plunderers, pillagers will not get caught; That thieves were suits and barong Tagalog.
They say, that in leadership, the HEADS LEAD THE TAILS. What kind of heads do we have. Shall we cut the head to stop these crooks
Thank you for the people who are exposing this and demanding accountability. The guilty ones should be censured and legally made accountable
This trend has made study of medicine very expensive and competitive in the Philippines. It cost 7 figures to send a doctor in the Philippines now. It used to be Asian and ME countries sending their children to medical schools in the Philippines. This is a new trend for Americans to send their children too in the Philippines.
Another point to be proud of about the Philippines.
If you are from other countries, would you send your children too to medical schools in the Philippines.?
