“P43-B GOV’T FUND TRANSFER TO AFFECT WORKERS’ PERKS.”–Inquirer headline. In effect, Congress believes it’s alright to delay pay increases and retirement benefits for teachers, civil servants and uniform personnel, by moving the said amount in mandatory allocations to unprogrammed appropriations.
Another Inquirer headline: “BUDGET WATCHDOG URGES VETO OF ‘LAST-MINUTE’ P319B.” Social Watch Philippines wants deleted “last-minute insertions and lump-sum appropriations.” Moreover, the Makati Business Club “wants more than verbal assurance that assistance funds and other ‘constitutionally questionable’ allocations will be shielded from patronage politics.”
The Filipino people have clearly expressed their outrage about how the legislators have not been doing their jobs to honestly represent them in crafting pro-people laws.
The record shows that they have often come up with self-serving legislations, particularly in crafting the 2026 budget. This budget will further enrich themselves, satisfytheir greed for money and for retaining their selfishpolitical and economic power not just over their respective constituents, but more so the Filipino people at large.
‘After the corruption practically abetted by the past budgets of 2024 and 2025 were confirmed by the legislators themselves in their live-streamed Committee investigations of the DPWH’s flood-control and other infrastructure projects, the budget for 2026 should have been crafted responsibly and intelligently, without concerned people’s organizations raising objections.’
POWER OF THE PURSE
Billions of the people’s money has been stolen by the legislators, as they have held “the power of the purse.”
Such robbery has been carried out for the people ghost and substandard flood-control and infrastructure projects,courtesy of the DPWH.
This is not to mention other budgeted millions under other government agencies, which have not been investigated live-streamed as Congress had done in the case of the DPWH. For example, confidential-intel funds have been “secretly” budgeted for certain civilian government institutions, especially from the time ICC jailbird Rodrigo became president.
And such practice, treacherously, has continued on with the “love-hate” tandem of President Bongbong Marcos and VP Sara Duterte, since they came to power in 2022, via a rigged election by Comelec’s use of Smartmatic, as claimed by the IT experts, TNTrio, other IT professional groups and individual IT experts.
What was quite scandalously expensive and painful for the Filipino people is that VP Sara Duterte dared spend, without any explanation, to have spent P215 million in 11 days, when she likewise served, or rather more accurately, took personal advantage of her concurrent position as DepEd secretary, even while doing nothing to upgrade the country’s education system.
CONFID-INTEL FUNDS
Likewise questionable for the Filipino people, regarding the budgets for confidential-intel funds – why are some civilian agencies (like the Department of Education) allotted suchfunds in their budgets, when they are not mandated to do intelligence work, which is the exclusive field of expertiseand assignments of specific AFP/PNP units?
What is worse and may be considered as an anti-people budget allocation is the excessive amount granted to the notorious NTF-ELCAC. This government agency created by the ICC jailbird, former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, has been claiming the clear decimation of NPA guerillas in the various regions, but it is still actively continuing its red-and terrorist-tagging operations.
Such has resulted in the illegal arrests and even killings of environmental activists and other reformists. Evendevelopment NGOs helping the Indigenous People (IPs)have their funding stopped and development work among the poor severely crippled, if not completely discontinued.
After the corruption practically abetted by the past budgets of 2024 and 2025 were confirmed by the legislators themselves in their live-streamed Committee investigations of the DPWH’s flood-control and other infrastructure projects, the budget for 2026 should have been crafted responsibly and intelligently, without concerned people’s organizations raising objections.
With their representatives in Congress, confirmed as greedyfor the peoples’ money, as they shamelessly aspire for re-election, and more wealth and power, the people cannot help but cry out, “IKULONG NA MGA MAGNANAKAW!”