By Reni M. Valenzuela
“As in water face reflects face, so the heart (or budget) of man reflects the man.” – Proverbs 27:19
You are beautifying our airport for foreigners and our countrymen who have money, but the vast majority of us have nothing to eat. What is the point of a fancy airport for millions of Filipinos who are suffering, without even a fare to the market?
And even if they do have a fare, what will they do in the market if they don’t have money to buy? Beg? Steal? Isn’t what you did to our motherland a kind of selling of souls to the private sector? But wait, who is the thief or the real thieves?
You are modernizing our public land transportation, not caring that our drivers and small operators will starve to death, and not caring that our own culture and Filipino Brand, which is characterized by its uniqueness, artistic and romantic Filipino jeepneys running on the streets. I have fallen in love with them, especially when I look back on my youth. When did the minibus become a jeep? The name alone is misleading, deceptive. Crooked.
You want to invest PhilHealth money in gambling/business or in the Maharlika Investment Fund, when sick people who cannot afford hospital bills are already dying. Millions of our countrymen in the countryside have no access to government hospitals/clinics, especially in remote areas in almost every province. The water they drink still comes from the well of Abraham and Jacob.
It is a great folly for PhilHealth to have reserve funds or gigantic amounts of pesos that are not being used. If that is true, isn’t it madness to apply the remedy?
You allocate billions of pesos in budgets every year for agencies (and “task force”) of the government so that they can paint red and kill those who are hungry, poor and protesting due to poverty and due to the negligence, evil, cruelty and savagery of those in power.
The goal of the suffering and complaining victims is to seize power, even those who care for others and oppose injustice. But how can they seize power to overthrow the government when they don’t even have food to eat? Be it human rights and the right to survive they have been stripped of it. What power can the powerless seize? Come on.
Think about this, dear President: Nothing can be fixed if the things that are wrong are fixed or fixed first.
No problem is solved where the wrong problems are solved or solved first, problems whose solution (in reality) will naturally come only as a result of the real problems or root causes of the problem being solved and fixed, problems that should be the first focus. pay attention — with all your strength, diligence, courage, intelligence, wisdom, goodness, honesty, purity of heart (and wallet) and reverence for God.
Let’s do everything, Mr. President, but to solve the problem, not to make it worse.
If you are a medical doctor, dear BBM, there’s no way for you to heal your patient if all that you do is merely and simply prescribing antibiotics all the time when the patient needs immediate surgical operation.
You cannot solve any problem of the country, dear leaders of the land, because what you’ve been doing and trying so hard to do until now is just, only and always to apply “cosmetic solutions” to the problems. deviation The shallow. The whim. Forestry.
Meanwhile, commenting on the sensible suggestion of Senator Miguel Zubiri to reconvene the bicameral conference committee, vis-a-vis the “approved” abominable 2025 Corruption Budget, House Deputy Speaker, David Suarez retorted, “There is no need to reconvene the bicameral conference. We are satisfied with the final versions of the budget.”
But, sir, can I rebut: You are all very much satisfied, in fact. And, bull’s eye, that’s exactly, precisely, obviously, definitely why the budget or “budget” needs a second, third or fourth, fifth look (for overhaul) — to tame official “satisfaction” or greed, together with official inanities and insanities — so that every budget will really serve and bless the nation and our people, not to fatten crooked pockets and let everything go to waste and dump trucks.
It is heartening that President Marcos Jr. vows to restore the original proposed budget for the Department of Education. But what about the unthinkable, unconscionable slashed budget of our state universities (and others). Again, it looks like NTF-ELCAC related. Absurd, savage, as usual.
I am glad and thankful for being a product of public schools and a state university. But what are you? Why talk just about adjusting the DepEd budget when there is so much to fix and overhaul about the budget (or “budget”) in its entirety? “Everyone can make a mistake, that’s why pencils have erasers.”
Did you use indelible ink? Well, if so, you are the one who should fix and correct it.
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