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Editorial
Calamitous figures
Jul 28, 2010
“…Sa kabuuan ng 108 million pesos para sa lalawigan ng Pampanga, 105 million pesos nito ay napunta sa iisang distrito lamang.
Samantala, ang lalawigan ng Pangasinan na sinalanta ng Pepeng ay nakatanggap ng limang milyong piso (P5M) lamang para sa pinsalang idinulot ng bagyong Cosme, na nangyari noong 2008 pa.
Ibinigay po ang pondo ng Pampanga sa buwan ng eleksyon, pitong buwan pagkatapos ng Ondoy at Pepeng. Paano kung bumagyo bukas? Inubos na ang pondo nito para sa bagyong nangyari noong isang taon pa. Pagbabayaran ng kinabukasan ang kasakiman ng nakaraan…”
(The entire province of Pampanga received P108 million. Of this, P105 million went to only one district.
On the other hand, the province of Pangasinan, which was severely affected by Typhoon Pepeng, received a mere P5 million, which had to be used to fix damages inflicted not even by Pepeng, but by a previous typhoon, Cosme which hit in 2008 yet.
The funds were released on election month, which was seven months after the typhoons. What will happen if a typhoon arrives tomorrow? The fund has been used up to repair damage from typhoons that hit us last year. Our future will pay for the greed of yesterday.)
So revealed President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) as he presented a litany on the alleged depletion of the 2010 national budget by the Macapagal-Arroyo administration.
Quick was the reaction – and the defense of the former President – by the mayors of Pampanga’s second district.
No, contrary to P-Noy’s SONA assertions, the second district’s local government units have yet to receive the mentioned calamity funds of “shocking quantities.”.
So asserted Mayors Eduardo D. Guerrero of Floridablanca, Mylene P. Pineda-Cayabyab of Lubao, Ricardo Rivera of Guagua, Yolanda M. Pineda of Sta. Rita, Condralito P. de la Cruz of Porac and Josefina C. Leoncio of Sasmuan.
Joined in Gov. Lilia Pineda: Documents will show that projects in the second district – now represented in the House by Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo – are still waiting for funds to be released by the Department of Budget and Management.
With that status of the funds, all it takes is an order from the President to withhold the release of money, a mayor noted. “And we are bound to submit to his order.”
The Pampanga mayors expressed the hope that P-Noy “should check his figures before going on a blaming spree against the previous administration.”
Samantala, ang lalawigan ng Pangasinan na sinalanta ng Pepeng ay nakatanggap ng limang milyong piso (P5M) lamang para sa pinsalang idinulot ng bagyong Cosme, na nangyari noong 2008 pa.
Ibinigay po ang pondo ng Pampanga sa buwan ng eleksyon, pitong buwan pagkatapos ng Ondoy at Pepeng. Paano kung bumagyo bukas? Inubos na ang pondo nito para sa bagyong nangyari noong isang taon pa. Pagbabayaran ng kinabukasan ang kasakiman ng nakaraan…”
(The entire province of Pampanga received P108 million. Of this, P105 million went to only one district.
On the other hand, the province of Pangasinan, which was severely affected by Typhoon Pepeng, received a mere P5 million, which had to be used to fix damages inflicted not even by Pepeng, but by a previous typhoon, Cosme which hit in 2008 yet.
The funds were released on election month, which was seven months after the typhoons. What will happen if a typhoon arrives tomorrow? The fund has been used up to repair damage from typhoons that hit us last year. Our future will pay for the greed of yesterday.)
So revealed President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) as he presented a litany on the alleged depletion of the 2010 national budget by the Macapagal-Arroyo administration.
Quick was the reaction – and the defense of the former President – by the mayors of Pampanga’s second district.
No, contrary to P-Noy’s SONA assertions, the second district’s local government units have yet to receive the mentioned calamity funds of “shocking quantities.”.
So asserted Mayors Eduardo D. Guerrero of Floridablanca, Mylene P. Pineda-Cayabyab of Lubao, Ricardo Rivera of Guagua, Yolanda M. Pineda of Sta. Rita, Condralito P. de la Cruz of Porac and Josefina C. Leoncio of Sasmuan.
Joined in Gov. Lilia Pineda: Documents will show that projects in the second district – now represented in the House by Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo – are still waiting for funds to be released by the Department of Budget and Management.
With that status of the funds, all it takes is an order from the President to withhold the release of money, a mayor noted. “And we are bound to submit to his order.”
The Pampanga mayors expressed the hope that P-Noy “should check his figures before going on a blaming spree against the previous administration.”
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