“With only a 1-page law passed - RA 10632 suspending the 2013 Sangguniang Kabataan elections - it’s time to abolish Congress. “ ~ Romulo Makalintal He goes on to say just how much was spent by Filipino taxpayers to have that one law passed. “The very dismal performance of our legislators in 2013 with only one insignificant law enacted for that year with a whopping P35.2 billion budget, is enough justification to call for a Charter change to abolish Congress and let the provincial governors and mayors of highly urbanized cities to form the legislative assembly.“ Worse he adds that “based on the 2013 budget of Congress, the annual appropriation for the Senate and the House of Representatives was P3.3 billion and P6.4 billion respectively.” He cites even more shocking details like “P500 million was the annual budget of the Commission on Appointments made up also of senators and representatives.” “The annual pork barrel of a senator is P200 million or a total of P4.8 billion for 24 senators; while the annual pork barrel per representative is P70 million or a total of P20.2 billion for 289 representatives.” In effect we spent P35.2 billion for that one law passed in 2013. The one page law was RA 10632 which suspended the 2013 Sangguniang Kabataan elections. Read more and be incensed...some more... philstar/opinion/2014/01/18/1280094/change-constitution-political-change
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 07:23:46 +0000
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