This article criticizes the President for defending the 2024 national budget, which many consider corrupt and carelessly crafted by the legislature. It highlights the unusual blank spaces in the budget document and questions the President's motives for supporting a flawed economic program.
“Why is the President taking the cudgels for the cupidity of the legislators? Is it because he thinks they can deliver his dream of a 12-0 shut-out for his Alyansa senators?”
It was he who described the budget as the “economic program of government written in pesos and centavos.” This writer as well as many others, in print, broadcast or social media, have described the process and the product crafted by the legislature, in particular the bicam machinations of the Elizaldy Co-Grace Poe led committee, as careless, criminal, and corrupt.
The President has been quite defensive, first erroneously confusing the signed GAA with the bicam report where the blanks were exposed by Sid Ungab and FPRRD to the extent of calling his predecessor a “liar.” Till now, he maintains that he has found no blank items in the enrolled bill received by Malacanang, even as no one has accused him or his Cabinet of filling in the blanks.
This writer does not think the President, with his conflict-averse character, is threatening our highest magistrates especially with an ES who was once SC chief justice.
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