Here's my latest Rappler piece, co-written with @znsuzara. Build 3x was supposed to bring about a "golden age of infrastructure." But to make up for their lack of progress Duterte and his men took credit for projects started in previous administrations. 😤 rappler.com/voices/thought…
Here are 10 examples:
1) Skyway Stage 3 (a public-private partnership or PPP project of the Aquino admin, launched in 2014)
2) LRT-2 East Extension Project (approved by the NEDA board way back in 2012)
"It is the fifth consecutive quarter that the country has registered negative GDP growth due to the pandemic, making it the longest recession since the Marcos years." rappler.com/business/gross…
THREAD: Thoughts, comments on the econ managers' super early pre-SONA forum.
Dominguez's preamble: "We need to divide the term of this admin. into 2 periods. The first is the period of growth & the second is the period of pandemic response." Alam na... web.facebook.com/DOFPH/videos/1…
Dominguez: Because of rice tariffication, "rice is no longer the main contributor to our overall inflation rate."
Yeah, but now in 2021 inflation has picked up again, mainly because of meat & vegetable prices.
Terror bill proponents say hirap daw ang gobyerno kasuhan ang suspected terrorists dahil sa kawalan ng ebidensya.
Pero di ba lumobo na nga ang confidential & intelligence funds ng gobyerno? Yung sa OP lang lumobo na sa P4.5b from ~P500m during Aquino's time (9x as high).
Halos kalahati ng total intelligence funds napunta lang sa Office of the President. At halos 2/3 ng total confidential funds napunta rin sa OP.