Garbaged legacy

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    IT COULD not have come at a worse time.

    Into the last year of his presidency, BS Aquino III is hard put to impart a legacy of excellent leadership and good governance to the nation.

    His administration not merely infected by, but inhered in incompetence, inanity, and imbecility as exhibited – shamelessly – in the breakdown of the MRT and LRT systems, the unavailability of license plates and cards at the LTO, the disaster-wanting-to-happen that is the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. And that’s just for the symptoms.

    His daang matuwid curled and curved in the Priority Development Assistance Fund, indeed, crooked in the Disbursement Acceleration Program which were all too rightly scrapped by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.

    Notwithstanding the SC’s judgment, the DAP found resurrection in the 2015 budget. The BS’s handpicked Yolanda rehab czar, former Sen. Panfilo Lacson, blowing the whistle:

    “We discovered P424-billion in lump sum appropriations. This is unconstitutional because in the middle of the year, the Department of Budget and Management is declaring savings.”

    There’s the BS’s contempt for the co-equal branch anew, earlier made prominent in the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona which, by no accident, was funded by PDAF and DAP. Aye, this BS’s hubris knows no bounds.

    His obstinate insistence on the Bangsamoro Basic Law manifests his conflicted self of spoiled brattiness on one hand, subservience to a foreign power on the other. All to the detriment of the national interest he is sworn to serve, to uphold, to protect.

    His insouciance over the Mamasapano Massacre, aye, his insensitivity to the grief of the widows and orphans of the valiant SAF 44, his indifference to the cry for justice for these martyrs of the Republic already a grave injury inflicted upon the nation, he further spited with the grievous insult of billions of pesos he proffered to their very executioners.

    Some tall order in legacy-building there for a now lame duck president.

    Into the last year of his presidency, BS Aquino III is even harder put to impact a loving, endearing legacy upon his home ground. Soon returning as he is, “civilianized,” to his roots.

    The development of the Clark International Airport as premier international gateway of the country would have made that resounding impact, not only in his Central Luzon home region but just about everywhere north of Metro Manila.

    Alas, the start-up fund of P1.2 billion for an improved terminal promised over a year ago still awaiting presidential go in the NEDA Board.

    The later promised P7.2-billion package for the whole Clark airport going emptier by the day.

    The groundwork for the so-called Clark Green City would have carved the deepest imprint upon the hearts and minds of his cabalens of this generation and of those to come, being situated right in his home province of Tarlac.

    Alack, bargain basement price and all, the Bases Conversion and Development Authority has yet to interest a single bidder even for just the basic phase of the project.

    Surefire legacy projects there, the BS allowed to be shoved at the backburner. Indeed, a pity.

    In their stead, what hath the BS brought home is imported garbage.

    Twenty nine of 50 containers filled with illegally shipped trash from Canada left rotting at the Port of Manila since June 2013 have found burying ground at the sanitary landfill in Kalangitan, Capas, Tarlac. The Basel Convention, the protests of environmentalists and the opposition of the barangay people and their LGUs be damned!

    The BS administration, through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, effectively dropping its demand on the Canadian government to take back the trash. That this came about prior to the BS’s state visit to Canada reinforces anew his subservience to foreign interest, at the expense of his people’s.

    A garbaged legacy, with the Canadian trash at Kalangitan but its surface representation, the BS shall most assuredly leave behind.

    Aye, it could not have come at a worse time.

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