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26 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
I was watching the pre-SONA briefing, but I stopped. I can't stand the cherry picking.

I cringe at the SOF's statements on all the reforms they supposedly did which conveniently omitted supporting data and contexts. Ugh.

I'll continue reading @jcpunongbayan's thread na lang
Also, shouldn't they be reporting their accomplishments since this is a pre-SONA briefing?

What's the point of reporting all these plans and targets if they don't support it with hard data to show how those budgets and investment benefitted ordinary Filipinos?
Look at this slide on the vaccination program. So what if those are their targets?

I mean, c'mon, we received 3 million doses and,
@rapplerdotcom's vaccine tracker says 1.7 million has been administered.

That's what? 2.4% of the target 70 million Filipinos inoculated.

I thought they said they were going to vaccinate 1 million people PER WEEK??

At the rate they're going, I can't help but ask myself when I'll get vaccinated.
What the what? Are they really just going to leave Filipinos to fend for themselves?

Wala talagang ayuda? Bahala na ang community pantries, ganon?

@jcpunongbayan I CANNOT STAND THE INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY IN THIS STATEMENT, BESHIEEEEEEE!

Paano daw ang 5.5 million people who would possibly plunge into poverty without aid sabi ng PIDS? Di ba PIDS is attached to NEDA? They don't talk?

Why isn't that factored in the projection for 2022? How can that be 14% if no other stimulus was given after Bayanihan 1 and 2?
Really?? Hindi ko ramdam. Kayo ba ramdam nyo?

If people lives have been "upgraded" by these credit ratings, why are people lining up in community pantries? Why are people dying in hospital parking lots?

I've said a lot about the 2021 Budget and Build, Build, Build and the two Bayanihans.

@KenAbante Wala yata talaga silang balak to finance Bayanihan 3 porque may FIST, GUIDE and CREATE to help big businesses.

Anti-poor is what they are.

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26 Apr
Let me just explain why you can’t find project details in the SAROs.

First and foremost, SAROs issued by DBM to cover releases to LGUs from funds under Allocations to Local Government Units are not always one is to one as in one SARO per LGU especially if it’s a barangay.
Now, the NTF-ELCAC budget is under Allocations to Local Government Units. How is that fund released

Normally, the department that has oversight on the implementation of projects request the release of funds from DBM in batches or tranches.
Each batch will have its own project list attached to the special budget request submitted to DBM. That request is reviewed by DBM before a SARO is released.

For example, this 3B fund release. DBM will never release a SARO without a project list that shows at least a breakdown.
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26 Apr
HAHAHAHAHA! Way to mislead people about the infrastructure spending to GDP .

This graph from a PIDS study shows which administration actually increased the infra spending.

Hahahaha! Pre-Aquino admin infra spending was the "anemic" one. Tumigil kayo with the half-truths
And look how ACTUAL infra to GDP ratio has deteriorated since 2016? Hahahahahaha!

They were riding on the institutional reforms introduced by former DPWH Secretary Babes Singson. But well, well, well, they failed to meet their own sustain the momentum.
Heck, they couldn't even meet their own targets, better yet stick to those targets.. Hahahaha!

These were their medium-term targets at the start, published in no less than the 2018 People's Budget
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25 Apr
Keep the budget visuals like this coming hehehe

Would be nice to compare as well the total budget of OVP vs the Confidential and Intelligence Funds of the OP.

Btw, the total OVP budget for 2021 is actually Php900M. Nasa 2021 GAA ang figure - dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/upl…
I wonder where the Php673M figure came from. Maybe this is actual spending figure?

It's quite close to the OVP's budget for 2020 - nearly Php700M in the 2020 GAA - dbm.gov.ph/wp-content/upl…
It doesn't change the conclusion we can draw from this graph though.

Kahit Php900m 2021 OVP budget ang gamitin natin, or the 2020 OVP budget which is Php699.88m (to be exact), kapiranggot lang talaga iyon compared to the NTF-ELCAC funds.
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12 Apr
1/x Okay, here goes my factchecking. I will explain this in Taglish para mas madali maintindihan.

For context, magkano na ang total budget releases for COVID response. Ayon sa DBM report, umabot na daw ito ng 568B.
2/x Anong mga kasama sa 568B? Basically merong mga fund releases authorized under Bayanihan 1 and 2 such as cash transfers ng DSWD, wage subsidies ng DOLE, those coursed through SSS and other COVID-related health and operational expenditures.

Source: dbm.gov.ph/index.php/prog…
3/x Now let’s focus on ayuda, and by ayuda, I mean direct cash transfers to beneficiaries.

How much of the 568B under Bayanihan 1 and 2 went to that?

At least 300B went to ayuda. Those were released to DSWD, DOLE, SSS, etc. Check the DBM report if you want more details.
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29 Mar
1/x Those funds should have been spent and distributed already. Those were funds for last year’s needs!

Ibig sabihin lang nyan, hindi nakarating sa mga tao ang sinabi ng Kongreso na gamitin noong isang taon para sa ayuda.
2/x Important questions to ask:
1. Why do those funds remain unutilized to this day?

2. What is the magnitude of unutilized funds under Bayanihan 2?

3. What are those specific items?

4. Which agencies did not spend what they should already have spent last year?
3/x Remember that Bayanihan 2 was legislated LAST YEAR to give aid to those who were affected by the lockdowns LAST YEAR.

The onus of explaining why those funds remained unutilized to this day is on the agencies. Almost all of them have critical roles to play in the IATF!
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24 Mar
The loan agreements for vaccines haven’t been signed. So anong sinasabi nila na nasa bank ang pera?!🙄

Nasa bangko ng lender ganon?

There may be funds in the Treasury at the moment for other things, but not specifically for vaccines.

Liar, liar, pants on fire.
So paano nga magpoprocure ng vaccines in large quantities kung hindi pa signed ang loan agreements?

Kung ikaw ba may car loan at hindi pa napirmahan ang mortgage agreement, makukuha mo ba ang car mo? Of course not.
Never mind if it’s the lending institution that will directly pay the supplier later on.

No loan agreement, no SARO release from DBM.

No SARO release from DBM, no authority to award contract.

Ganon yun. Nasa GAA yun.
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