A Wrong Mentality

With the elections just months away, the front-runners for the presidential race are determined in the surveys. And unsuprisingly, Ninoy Aquino’s only son, Noynoy Aquino, ranks first among other bets. Ever since his mother, the late Corazon Aquino, passed away last August the masses have called on Noynoy to become president. Proclaiming an all-new people power. […]

Too Much ‘Pork’

As another year comes, another budget proposal comes along it as well. For fiscal year 2010, Congress is proposing a P1.541T budget. Much more than last year’s, but that’s not really the problem here. Apparently, around P65B of the money which was supposed to be for debt service has been diverted to pork barrel funds. […]