Will NEDA now push for the RH bill?

For our special presentation on our TV talkshow Straight from the Sky, we are blessed to have with us that feisty woman from Zambales, Rep. Mitos Magsaysay who in my book is the real face of the opposition against the Aquino regime. There is no doubt that the former Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) has been painted by the Aquino regime as the most hated person in this country that many of her political friends suddenly don’t want to be identified with her. One of them is Sen. Franklin Drilon, the ultimate political butterfly.

But Rep. Mitos Magsaysay is not scared of this tag because she told me… in the not so distant future… you can bet that those politician praising hosannas to Pres. Aquino would treat him just like the way they are treating GMA today, and I fully agree. Just look at those politicos gravitating towards Vice Pres. Jejomar Binay and you will know what I mean.

So tonight, let’s hear it from Rep. Mitos Magsaysay who dared, on the air, to call PNoy a liar because he told the press that those members of Congress who did not sign the impeachment complaint, their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) were given directly to their constituents. Rep. Magsaysay belies this as a tall-tale. I have only seen a few politicians who have the guts to tell the President on his face that he is a liar. Hence, Rep. Magsaysay is a rarity. So watch this very courageous woman on SkyCable’s channel 15 at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday with replays on MyTV channel 28 at 9:00 p.m.

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I attended the 17th Divine Mercy Convention last Saturday and Sunday at the University of Cebu METC along the SRP and the gym was literally bursting with people from all walks of life from all over the country. If anyone made a count, I would reckon that there were more than five thousand devotees. This is uncannily similar to the number of men that our Lord Jesus taught in the Sermon of the Mount. Kudos to my friend, Bro. Stanley Villavicencio for his untiring promotion of our Lord’s Divine Mercy for he is saving a lot of souls… which our Lord Jesus Christ wants all of us to do.

Early Sunday morning, my good friend, Dr. Rene Bullecer of the Vatican Pontifical Council on Health Care wowed the crowd with his rhetoric about the dangers of allowing a Reproductive Health (RH) bill for our country. Because that was a nationwide convention, I’m sure that most of the devotees of the Divine Mercy are now eager to tackle the Aquino regime in fighting against the RH bill because if offends God.

There is no doubt that just like the Senate Impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, PNoy has literally used all the instrumentalities of the Philippine government in order to pin down CJ Corona… even with lies and innuendoes. I can only second-guess that the same thing is happening in his pushing for the RH bill.

A case in point is the report by newly-appointed Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan (last week, he took over from NEDA Sec. Cayetano Paderanga who quit due to health reasons) who got his marching orders from the President to fast track the Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, which after almost two years as President has failed to take off. But his other Presidential order is to support the RH bill. Come now…will NEDA and the Regional Development Council Region 7 be pushing for the RH bill?

For sure, Sec. Balisacan is getting international help in promoting the RH bill, when the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reported that their Philippine Office raised US28.5 Million in one year and that this money will be used to promote reproductive and maternal health, one of the country’s Millennium Development Goals.

My question is… where did that US$28.5 Million come from? Are they the foreign lobby money for the RH bill that has been used to pay for expensive one-page advertisements by leftist students organizations purportedly supporting the RH bill? Let’s see if the Aquino regime will show some kind of transparency and tell the Filipino people where the money to support the RH bill came from.

As the nation’s top economist, Sec. Balisacan ought to listen to Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew who, as we already wrote that last May 7, came up with an article entitled “Warning Bell for Developed Countries: Declining Birth Rates” that came out in Forbes Magazine.

Lee Kuan Yew said, “There will be a shift in power unless birth rates increase in the developed world.” The old world thinking that fewer people mean a better economy is already passé’. Sec. Balisacan should be advised that his economic policies should look further after the Aquino government where they boasted that the economy would be much better. But then if we cut down our population, then please don’t expect a rosy future ahead for our country, thanks to PNoy’s RH bill that he will pass very soon.

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