Thread by @znsuzara

Me to econ managers:

Don’t run the government like an effing business!

It’s not your job to save money. It’s your job to SPEND for the people.

Magbigay kayo ng ayuda so you don’t have to keep forcing a stupid strategy of reopening the economy

Ang problema kasi inuna nyo pa rin ang Build, Build, Build kahit maraming may sakit, gutom, at walang trabaho.

Almost Php1T of the 2021 Budget went to infra pero business-as-usual ang budget for health, livelihood and labor. Hindi nakalapat sa lupa ang economic policy ninyo.

Bukod doon, nagbuhos rin kayo ng pondo para sa NTF-ECLAC na parang kala mo mas malaking problema ang anti-communist insurgency kesa sa COVID-19

Ang budget para sa vaccines nakapark sa Unprogrammed Appro. Meaning hangga’t hindi pumapasok ang loan proceeds, hindi marerelease ang pondo.

And take note, Kongreso pa ang nagpasok ng 70B sa budget kasi ang proposal nyo kapiranggot na 2.5B lang.

Kapag nasa Unprogrammed Appro ang pondo, it’s basically secondary priority.

Proof that it is indeed parked there and that the release of funds are subject to conditions?

dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/upl…

Sabi nyo gov’t is saving for the “resurgence”? That is not true.

Dito bumuhos ang 2021 Budget kasi let’s be honest, #2022Elections

(Figures in billion pesos)

How much for DOH?

Summarize ko ang fiscal policy nyo in the middle of a pandemic:

- more budgets for infra
- more budgets for security budget
- business-as-usual budget for health, livelihood and everything else

Alam nyo naman siguro na kung ano ang national budget, iyon ang talagang gusto nyong patakbuhin na programa di ba?

Saan banda ng overall expenditure program ang priority for pandemic response at economic aid/recovery kung karampot ang para sa mga naghirap dahil sa crisis?

Because the fiscal policy is like this, pinipilit nyo to reopen the economy habang mismong government offices may periodic lockdowns.

You’re basically leaving people to fend for themselves with this kind of misplaced austerity and wrong budget prioritization!

Hindi totoo na “walang budget”. May budget pero limited. Tapos limited na nga, mali pa ang priorities sa gitna mg pandemya.

So bakit nga may resurgence? Kasi ayaw nyo magbigay ng ayuda. Pinilit nyo mag-reopen kaagad dahil sa pagkakuripot nyo when in fact, dapat gumastos kayo😡

My unsolicited advice to you is LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE! Here are some of the few things I’ve been hearing since Bayanihan 1 and 2 ended

- poorest families need aid (direct cash transfers/cash-for-work/livelihood)
- PUV drivers need aid too
- OFW repatriates need livelihood

- adequately fund distance learning
- start strategizing the safe return to schools
- expand wage subsidies
- expand subsidies to ailing MSMEs

Don’t tell us these things can’t be done because we don’t have funds.

If y’all were willing to raise the deficit to be able to fund infrastructure dev’t in the face of a historic crisis, what is stopping you from looking after the people?

If gov’t can fund higher budgets for the police and military, what is keeping you from implementing a robust recovery program of giving aid? Why don’t you want to take care of the Filipino people?

Don’t you get it? We stand to lose so much more in the future if you keep setting aside the people’s welfare in favor of infra development!

Aber, paano ang future economic competitiveness kung gutom, may sakit, may learning crisis or worse, patay na ang mga tao?

Then again talaga namang mga kasama ninyo sa administrasyon ang pumapatay sa mga tao. Hello drug war? Hello red-tagging?

So ano? Kayo rin na mga econ managers you’ll let people die of sickness and hunger?!

Anong silbi ng fiscal policy nyo kung iyan ang net effect?