“The Arroyo Administration has decided to spend P93.6 billion more than the approved national budget of P1.236 trillion this year to fund more pro-poor programs.”
SOURCE: Remo, M.V. (2008, May). Gov’t to spend P93.6B more this year. Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. B1, B4
At first, I thought this idea of GMA, and her cronies (if I may call them that), spending more than the approved national budget for this year was a great proposal. How will the government fund for the said additional spending? A nearly P18.6 billion would be taken from the Value Added Tax on oil since oil prices are sky rocketing! And the other portion would be funded by borrowings. Sure, the Arroyo Administration would be funding programs for the poor such as scholarships as well as loaning to PUV operators so that they may modify their engine to a cheaper one that consumes low-priced gasoline. The administration also said that they will be directly giving money to the poor. But would this really benefit the poor and our deteriorating society?
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MS. PRESIDENT, I believe that the government should not openly give cash to the less-fortunate. WHY?
1. How sure are we that the money that will be given to them will be used for a good cause? For all we know, they would use that money to buy drugs!
2. They would not want to work thus creating more unemployed lazy Filipinos AKA MGA TAMBAY.
3. They would depend on the money given to them and not find other ways of earning money.
4. Lastly, don’t you think that it is a bit degrading on their part if they were just handed money.
The government must formulate other means of helping the poor; they should not dole out money!!
My other concern about this issue is that there is a possibility that the Philippines would be exposed to more graft and corruption. Come on, an additional spending budget? Do we seriously need that big amount of money just for extra spending? I say that the government might use this money for their personal expenses.
To conclude this post, I believe that the additional spending budget would help a bit but would also cause trouble in our community.
SOURCE: Remo, M.V. (2008, May). Gov’t to spend P93.6B more this year. Philippine Daily Inquirer, pp. B1, B4
At first, I thought this idea of GMA, and her cronies (if I may call them that), spending more than the approved national budget for this year was a great proposal. How will the government fund for the said additional spending? A nearly P18.6 billion would be taken from the Value Added Tax on oil since oil prices are sky rocketing! And the other portion would be funded by borrowings. Sure, the Arroyo Administration would be funding programs for the poor such as scholarships as well as loaning to PUV operators so that they may modify their engine to a cheaper one that consumes low-priced gasoline. The administration also said that they will be directly giving money to the poor. But would this really benefit the poor and our deteriorating society?
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT MS. PRESIDENT, I believe that the government should not openly give cash to the less-fortunate. WHY?
1. How sure are we that the money that will be given to them will be used for a good cause? For all we know, they would use that money to buy drugs!
2. They would not want to work thus creating more unemployed lazy Filipinos AKA MGA TAMBAY.
3. They would depend on the money given to them and not find other ways of earning money.
4. Lastly, don’t you think that it is a bit degrading on their part if they were just handed money.
The government must formulate other means of helping the poor; they should not dole out money!!
My other concern about this issue is that there is a possibility that the Philippines would be exposed to more graft and corruption. Come on, an additional spending budget? Do we seriously need that big amount of money just for extra spending? I say that the government might use this money for their personal expenses.
To conclude this post, I believe that the additional spending budget would help a bit but would also cause trouble in our community.
4 comments:
true, i agree that doling out money would do no good to the poor. the Arroyo administration must find other tactical ways of using the budget wisely.
it's not a good idea to dole out money to the poor! they should use the budget for educating the poor primarily, and infrastructures.
same here. bragadasho commenting here. its not the ideal solution to just dole that amount of hard cash to the poor. how sure are we that they will use it for the use it was really intended for? and plus the corruption in our country is staggering. how sure are we that this money will be handled with integrity? most of it will go to the pockets of greedy politicians
The money will be better spent on funding projects that benefit the poor. This creates job opportunities which also benefit the poor.
Directly giving the money to the less fortunate spoils them and turns them into lazy bums (tambay). They will use the money for drugs, alcohol, and gambling. Do we really need more of those?
No.
So, just fund projects, improve education, whatever. Just don't give it directly.
~David Gonzales
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