EDITORIAL - All skewed up

Government resources are very hard to come by. That is the reason why government has come under fire for scrimping on vital expenditures that otherwise should have been prioritized and then squandering on needless and uncalled for expenses.

While government has been less aggressive in responding to the gaping needs in education, it has on the other hand been inordinately insistent in throwing away billions of pesos in cash doleouts to the poor.

There are valid fears that the failure of government to adequately prepare the education system for its ill-advised K+12 initiative will result in a massive collapse of the system, from which it will take years to recover.

On the other hand, the billions of pesos in cash doleouts to the poor did not take very long to be proven as a huge catastrophic blunder. The most recent surveys showed there are now more hungry people than ever.

Now, to the chagrin of the judiciary, the government has slashed its budget too, and is meddling in the way it can spend what is left of its allocation, in direct violation of the constitution.

But while this government has chosen to undercut the judiciary, thus undermining its ability to dispense with justice efficiently, it has at the same time chosen to give cash gifts to the Moro rebels and splinter communist groups.

Worse, it has chosen to carve out huge chunks of its sovereign territory to provide for safe havens for Moro rebels, even as it destroys with merciless force and violence huge squatter colonies.

This government is therefore not only squandering away its precious resources over needless initiatives, it also has its priorities all skewed up, coddling those it should destroy. And destroying those it should give another chance.