World Bank-designed and funded dole out is expensive and myopic - Casiño
Blinded by money?
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño today branded as "expensive, myopic and unsustainable" the US$400 M World Bank-funded conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to be implemented by government starting this year.
"After Budget Secretary Butch Abad's assurance in yesterday's budget hearing that no loans would be incurred in increasing the CCT program to P21 billion next year, I am shocked to learn from Sec. Dinky Soliman that it is the WB that will fund it after all. Two questions immediately come to mind: how much will this cost in terms of debt servicing and what are the loan conditionalities? This is a hot-potato item in the 2011 proposed budget," Casiño said.
Posted on Sep 03 by Administrator
Casiño wants GOCCs covered by Salary Standardization Law
For more transparency and appropriate govt spending
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño today called for the immediate inclusion of all government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) under the coverage of the salary standardization law (SSL) to help check the wasteful spending that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) says it wants to weed out of the national budget.
“The SSL III should be immediately applied to GOCCs to effectively put a cap on the bloated salaries, abusive bonuses and other perks of GOCC officials. The SSL was upgraded recently in the 14th Congress and should be imposed on all GOCCs to correct the anomalous situation wherein a few officials become millionaires by milking state funds and assets (see table below),” Casiño said.
Posted on Sep 02 by Administrator
15 BILLION WORTH OF QUESTIONABLE ITEMS FOUND IN THE AQUINO BUDGET: Lump sum amounts for the ‘public-private partnership’ could lead to massive corruption
Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Javier Colmenares found questionable items in the 2011 Budget submitted by Malacanang amounting to P15 billion. The questioned items are the amorphous and unexplained allotment of P5 billion for “Public-Private Partnership Support Fund” inserted in each of the budgets of the Department of Agriculture (page 30 of Expenditures), Department of Telecommunications and Communications (page 1290 of National Expenditures Program) and Department of Public Works and Highways (page 1169 of the NEP).
“These huge amounts for such a vague general item as ‘public-private partnerships’ is dangerous because it is a lump sum amount and we do not know where this will go. As a general rule budgets should not have lump sum amounts as these are not only un-transparent but also sources of corruption,” Colmenares said.
Posted on Sep 01 by Administrator
Majority has the numbers to impeach Ombudsman Gutierrez but the President has to want it
Joint Press Statement
The progressive party-list bloc in the 15th Congress firmly believes that the impeachment case against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez can and will prosper if President Aquino and the Liberal Party-led coalition in the House musters the political will to make sure it does. The impeachment complaint only needs 90 signatures of endorsement and the articles of impeachment can immediately be sent to the Senate for trial.
It is incumbent upon the President and the LP leadership to ensure that the impeachment complaints succeed. Ombudsman Gutierrez's removal from office remains the litmus test of Pres. Aquino's promise to hold former president Arroyo and her cohorts accountable for their crimes. Only with a credible and competent Ombudsman can his administration expect to curb corruption.
Posted on Aug 31 by Administrator
Casiño vows more funds, technical support for small and medium entrepreneurs
The newly-installed chair of the House Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development is making cheap credit and technical support the priority for small and medium scale entrepreneurs who employ majority of the county's workers.
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño said that as a first step, the committee will be looking into the compliance of all banks and lending institutions to various laws and policies requiring credit allocations to micro, small and medium enterprises,
Posted on Aug 30 by Administrator
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