Massive scale corruption exposed/unfolding

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You can ask the SC to reconsider if only one justice wrote the a single opinion and the rest concured. But the DAP decision was done with EACH justice giving an unfavorable opinion, including those appointed by BS Aquino...

[macsd]

Cguro magtatayo si Abnoy ng rubber stamp SC to concur to his idea since no point to appeal on a land slide decision. Baka ininiisip nya impeach lahat ng justices ng SC

[ClaNker]

^ Akala ko ba tinangal si Corona para maging rubber stamp ni PNoy ang SC.

Next!

[Monseratto]

interestingly, Article VI Section 25 of the constitution.

(5) No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriations; however, the President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional Commissions may, by law, be authorized to augment any item in the general appropriations law for their respective offices from savings in other items of their respective appropriations.

so much for Raisa Robles' "discovery"

Di-Law according to BS Aquino... Cory's Constitution vs Cory's Administrative Order

Ang epektibong paggugol ng pondo ay hindi lang po dikta ng aking konsensya, malinaw din pong nakasaad sa iba’t ibang probisyon ng isang batas na ang pangalan ay Administrative Code of 1987, at tinalakay ang paggamit ng savings. Halimbawa, basahin natin ngayon (nandiyan sa inyong mga screen) ang Book VI, Chapter 5, Section 39 ng 1987 Administrative Code of the Philippines:

“—Except as otherwise provided in the General Appropriations Act, any savings in the regular appropriations authorized in the General Appropriations Act for programs and projects of any department, office or agency, may, with the approval of the President, be used to cover a deficit in any other item of the regular appropriations…”

Ang mensahe ko po sa Korte Suprema: Ayaw nating umabot pa sa puntong magbabanggaan ang dalawang magkapantay na sangay ng gobyerno, kung saan kailangan pang mamagitan ng ikatlong sangay ng gobyerno.Mahirap pong maintindihan ang desisyon ninyo. Mayroon din kasi kayong ginawa dati, na sinubukan ninyong gawin ulit, at may nagsasabi pang mas matindi ito base sa desisyong inilabas ninyo kamakailan lang. Nagtiwala kami na tama ang ginagawa ninyo alinsunod sa konsepto o prinsipyo ng “presumption of regularity,” lalo pa’t kayoang dapat na mas madunong sa batas.Ngayong kami naman ang may ipinatupad—na kayo na rin ang nasabing nakabuti sa mamamayan—bakit mali na ngayon ang aming ginawa?

Naniniwala naman akong karamihan sa inyo, tulad namin, ay naghahangad ng kabutihan para sa taumbayan. Sa mga kagalang-galang na Mahistrado ng Korte Suprema: Tulungan n’yo naman kaming tulungan ang ating mga kababayan. Balikan niyo sana ang ginawa ninyong desisyon nang may pagsasaalang-alang sa mga inilatag kong paliwanag ngayong gabi. Umaasa po ang sambayanan sa makatwiran ninyong pagtugon. Umaasa akong kapag nakita ninyo ang mga isusumite naming argumento ukol sa batas at sa ekonomiya, magkakaisa tayo, at titibay ang kapasidad ng buong pamahalaan na isulong ang interes ng sambayanan.

- See more at: http://madlangbayan.ph/presidents-na....J6U2bPah.dpuf

[funkeemunkee]

dapat ipakita na lang nila kung saan napunta DAP via DBM and COA audit para matapos na. Para yung hindi ginamit sa tama ang malalagot.

http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/upl...20Projects.pdf

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Binay must be thanking PNoy's effort, now he can declare everyone's budget as "savings" and juggle it as he pleases. Can't wait for 2016...

Under a President who wants to do good for the nation, such powers are useful. But under a President who has other motives, such powers can greatly harm the nation. I wonder how the other presidents before PNoy used these powers.

raissa robles | President Aquino's dead mom, President Cory, may yet save her son from jail over DAP

[ClaNker]

http://www.dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/upl...20Projects.pdf

Thanks for sharing.

Ngayon ibalik lahat ng ginastos na yan sa kaban ng bayan. Plunder!!!

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OT: Nakikita talaga hindi dahil sa maging rubber stamp ni Pnoy ang SC kundi para hindi maipamigay ang Hacienda Luisita.

BTT: Tama ang sabi nila tungkol kay Pnoy, arogante Ipagpipilitan ba naman tama siya compared sa unanimous decision ng Justices, tsk. Kung in good-faith talaga saan nagamit yang napakalaking pera (DAP), ipa-fast track niya yung pang-audit, saan projects nagamit yang DAP? Baka naman ang totoong nangyari, naglabas si PNoy at Abad ng DAP initially pang-bribe sa mga Senators to convict Corona... at nagbigay na rin sila sa totoong projects para hindi naman halata.

[Ry_Tower]

OT: Nakikita talaga hindi dahil sa maging rubber stamp ni Pnoy ang SC kundi para hindi maipamigay ang Hacienda Luisita.

BTT: Tama ang sabi nila tungkol kay Pnoy, arogante Ipagpipilitan ba naman tama siya compared sa unanimous decision ng Justices, tsk. Kung in good-faith talaga saan nagamit yang napakalaking pera (DAP), ipa-fast track niya yung pang-audit, saan projects nagamit yang DAP? Baka naman ang totoong nangyari, naglabas si PNoy at Abad ng DAP initially pang-bribe sa mga Senators to convict Corona... at nagbigay na rin sila sa totoong projects para hindi naman halata.

errr... nasagot na yan. slow?

[TopEngine]

nagpapatulong na raw sa Kongreso sabagay he's got the numbers there

In essence, what Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III said in his address to the public today on the issue of the fiasco surrounding the now-illegal Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) consists of two key messages:

(1) The DAP was used in good faith; and,

(2) The Philippine Supreme Court was wrong to rule it ‘unconstitutional’.

noynoy_aquinoTo make the notion of ‘good faith’ accessible to a bigger swath of his audience, President BS Aquino used a purported text message sent to him earlier in which the use of the DAP was likened to how one might decide to park on a No Parking zone to assist someone in need of emergency help. BS Aquino would like us to believe that this scenario presents us with a clear either-or situation. Get away with breaking the law to attend to an emergency or ignore an emergency to comply with the law.

The fact is, that scenario really is not strictly either-or as you can actually do both. To that supposed conundrum, the resolution is quite simple…

Go ahead and help the guy in need, then pay the fine if you get issued a parking ticket.

Note that the Big Assumption there, however, is that a person was actually helped by that hypothetical illegal parker.

Nonetheless, good intentions are like assholes. Everyone’s got them. Mass murders have been committed and wars started because some bozo thought that he or she was doing the human race a great favour. That is why we have courts and justice systems. You need a coherent framework to provide perspective that third parties can use to objectively evaluate the goodness or badness of your actions. Without that mechanism, everyone would have license to shoot anyone they personally deem not worthy of their place under the sky.

Then again, that sort of sounds like the sort of thing that happens in societies like the Philippines, doesn’t it? Go figure.

Just the same, as President of the Philippines, BS Aquino should serve as the exemplar of subjection to the rule of Law. And the Supreme Court has the final word when it comes to interpreting that law. Aquino knows that perfectly well. He wouldn’t have spent megabucks to fund the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2012 if he did not recognise the power wielded by a judge’s words and the finality the bang of a gavel puts in these.

Unfortunately, the message he brought across in his address to the public today was tantamount to an insult on the Filipinos’ intelligence and a flick of the bird to the SC. He even repeated the same flawed take on the fiscal position of the Philippines he articulated in his first State of the Nation Address in 2010 (the historical details of which I repackaged for the occasion this morning).

What a guy.

This is the man Filipinos selected to be their leader in a colossal collective lapse in judgement. But that’s water under the bridge. The question now is what happens next. President BS Aquino said his government will be seeking Congressional support in appealing (possibly overturning) the SC ruling. How he’s going to do that now that there is no more pork or DAP to dangle in front of greedy snouts will be an interesting puzzle to ponder while we wait for the next episode in this teleserye.