Hoy, mga magnanakaw! Won’t you politicos and bureaucrats ever stop?
In 2022 dynasts stole more than half the P862-billion budget for roads, bridges, ports and equipment. Baguio City Mayor Benjie Magalong exposed their greed. Forty percent kickback didn’t satisfy them. They even acted as constructors and suppliers, for 15-percent added loot.
They left only 45 percent for the infrastructure work. We suffer rutty roads, collapsed bridges, shoddy ports, faulty machines. Not them. They each pocketed a cool billion, and vacationed abroad first class.
The following year they filched 55 percent, or P731.5 billion of the P1.33-trillion public works fund. Each took P2 billion. They were worse than leeches. Those little bloodsuckers – each has 32 brains – let go once full. Politicos don’t.
This 2024 they’ll divvy up P830.5 billion of the P1.51-trillion infra-works fund. Almost P3 billion each. They didn’t “Build Better More” as their admin proclaims. Example: the cripplingly steep “PWD ramp” on the EDSA Busway. When their incompetence went viral, they babbled about assigning staff to handhold the wheelchaired, pregnant and seniors.
Habitual showoffs, they made the President’s State of the Nation a jewelry, apparel and limo fashion show.
Then they clinked champagne glasses on computing how much of 2025’s P6.352-trillion budget they can plunder anew. Part of that will go to buying votes for their re-election. They gobbled down a P20-millions courtesy of 119 million Filipinos. Most of us don’t have even P20 for four pandesal split by a family of five.
They prefer flood-control funds that they can pocket in full. They collude with government engineers to not measure the river or lake dredging. In 2022 the flood fund was P129 billion; in 2023, P183 billion; in 2024, P245 billion. Floods destroyed our homes, shops and belongings.
They’re debating “overprice” in the new Senate building construction. Cost allegedly zoomed from P15 billion to P29 billion. The Senate wouldn’t have spent a single centavo by continuing to rent its present GSIS structure. Rent would have augmented state employees’ pension fund.
We’re left with meager PhilHealth benefits. Yet they illegally took P90 billion of that too.
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Agency officers are unpatriotic, corrupt and negligent. Aspiring for dirty wealth like their political padrinos, they sell services to bribers.
Their favorites are Chinese gangsters and spies. They grant them visas and residencies, driving and gun licenses, birth and investor certificates, character and Customs clearances, college and work records, building and fire inspections.
About 3.12 million Chinese obtained investor or retiree residencies in 2016-2018. Abetted by Malacañang, they married Filipinos and falsified corporate papers in order to buy land.
One municipal registrar issued 2,000 birth certificates to aliens. SEC registered hundreds of fake firms with Chinese incorporators. The Anti-Money Laundering Council allowed unexplained hundred-billion-peso constructions in Bamban, Porac and other little towns. Also, hundred-million-dollar transfers to Chinese banks.
Police are the crookedest. They bodyguard for and sell firearms to aliens. In Bamban and Porac they covered up kidnappings, tortures and murders.
Till the weekend police couldn’t find alias Alice Guo. She was all over the news as a Chinese who falsified documents to become Bamban mayor. The entire town police was replaced, and the provincial and regional chiefs questioned for ignoring Guo’s ten-hectare human trafficking-gambling hub. Immigration was on alert for her escape.
Yet cops sat on fat asses.
The unpatriotic, corrupt and incompetent are tearing the country apart. Time to purge them from government.
The irresponsible political elite won’t do it. Magistrates are co-opted. Prelates and the press are uninclined.
Retired Air Force colonel Hector Tarrazona sees hope in prayer. He writes President Bongbong Marcos almost every day. If the highest official is persuaded to repent, Tarrazona believes, then politicos and bureaucrats will follow.
Tarrazona was a leader of the Reform the AFP Movement that bloodlessly ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in 1986. He got fighter helicopter squadron chief Gen. Antonio Sotelo to the rebel side. Sotelo then fired warning rockets at the Malacañang carpark. The Marcoses stepped down.
Tarrazona no longer plots coup d’état. Via Love Movement PH, he instead persuades active and retired soldiers to serve the people’s interest.
The Constitution’s Article II, Declaration of Principles, Section 3 states: “Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the State. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory.”
We Filipinos need protecting from bad government.
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