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FAT CATS OF THE MAHARLIKA FUND

Under Section 12 of the #MarcosInvestmentFund law, admin costs are limited to 2% of the capital. That looks small on paper. But considering that target capitalization of the fund is in the neighborhood of ₱500B, that would amount to ₱10B.
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That's more than the combined budget of P7 Billion allocated to Lung Center of the Philippines (P835.2 M), National Kidney and Transplant Institute (P1.7 B) , Philippine Children’s Medical Center (P2.1 B), Philippine Heart Center (P2.1 B) for the year 2023.
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The more capital they are able to shake down from government institutions the more money for the salaries and emoluments for the officials of this Fund headed by Finance Secretary Diokno - who will not even be breaking sweat, considering that theirs are not full-time jobs,
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spent monitoring the stock and bond markets while they sit back in their easy chairs as if watching paint dry.

Do you think these fat cats deserve to have more than the doctors and nurses of government hospitals who sacrifice their blood, sweat and tears
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to serve the sick and save lives?

The #MIF is just one feeding trough filled from an overflowing pork barrel.
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Ctto: FB Atty. Wilfredo Garrido

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Jun 2
I believe these are the three main issues, among others, that hound the #MarcosInvestmentFund (MIF):
1.CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE. Filipinos and foreign investors alike have a crisis of confidence on the people behind the MIF and those who will be managing it.
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They do not trust the Marcos-Romualdez political dynasty and their cronies to run the show considering the family's sordid track record of corruption and plunder. This explains why the pledges that the host countries made to FBBM in his 11 or so visits there have not been
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translated into reality. Likewise, this is the reason why there has been widespread opposition from the more enlightened sectors of Filipino society against the idea.
2.VIABILITY. The Constitution requires the test of economic viability before a GOCC could be created.
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Jun 1
Dedicated to @loren_legarda for giving us a good for nothing being!

Antiqueño Ingenuity: The AIs of Paliwan 🌊

The top 12 best Paliwan memes are a reflection of how Antiqueños can see the humorous side of a stressful situation, and deal with a calamity with resiliency.
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We've also discovered the hidden talents of Antiqueños in social media editing.

These memes were not only ideas or a trend that spread by means of imitation from netizen to netizen within our Karay-a culture, but it carried a symbolic meaning representing a particular
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significant social issue.

Why are Antiqueños so immersed and interactive with these current memes of Paliwan? Is this because we feel hopeless with the situation? Is this because we feel powerless? Something to think about 🤔
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May 25
How the Marcos-Romualdez faction checkmated the Duterte-Arroyo faction:
1. Arroyo wanted to be Speaker but BBM chose his cousin, Martin Romualdez instead.
2. Sara Duterte wanted to be appointed as DND Secretary but BBM appointed her as DepEd Secretary instead.
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Both the posts of Speaker and DND Secretary are powerful and strategic. The former has the power of the purse while the latter has the power of the gun.
3. Speaker Romualdez, most possibly with the clearance of BBM, removed Arroyo as Senior Deputy Speaker to prevent
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the latter from using the position as a launchpad to mount a coup against the former.
The power of the purse and automatically the source of largesse, i.e.pork barrel, to congressmen is now tightly ensconced in the hands of the Marcos-Romualdez faction.
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May 25
BBM is ramming down on the throats of the Filipino people his family's racket, the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) by certifying as urgent the Senate Bill creating it. While we were sleeping, his cohorts in the Senate are reportedly restoring the GSIS and SSS Pension Funds
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and Pag-IBIG Funds as among the sources of the MIF. The proposed use of these funds by the MIF were vehemently opposed by the GSIS, SSS and Pag-IBIG members.They feared rightfully that their lifetime savings deducted from their salaries in their working years would end
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up in the pockets of the plunderous Marcos and Romualdez families and their corrupt accomplices.The members' protest compelled the House of Representatives to remove the pension funds from their version of the bill.
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Mar 16
CHA-CHA IS BAD FOR SARA
(Courtesy: FB Post of Atty Wilfredo Garrido- A Thread)
With the Cha-cha bill overwhelmingly passing the House, the ball is now in the Senate's court. It will be suicidal for the Senate to do the same.
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We will be back to the 1970s Concon that was rigged by Marcos Sr. in his favor.

First order of business is to lift term limits - not those of the Congressmen, or Senators, or LGU officials, but only that of the President. Yep. Marcos will rule until Sandro becomes
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eligible to succeed him.

That means sabotaging Sara's political ambitions. She will have to wait forever and ever.

Without an enabling law banning political dynasties, the other politicians don't really need the lifting of term limits that much. They can always pass
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Feb 15
TIME TO DOWNGRADE CHINESE RELATIONS

(A long thread)

They tried to blind our Coast Guard personnel and all we do is blink?

We've been turning the other cheek far too often for too long. In the latest attempt to curry favor with China, President @bongbongmarcos went to
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Beijing to seek a "new golden age" in Philippine relations and to establish a "hot line" across the sea. Communist chief Xi Jinping paid lip service to it. As they have done to all Philippine and @ASEAN initiatives, including the "Code of Conduct" which the Chinese have been
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dribbling for years, with no end in sight.

The Communists will not change their behavior. In the latest outrage, their huge patrol vessel, masquerading as a coast guard boat, tried to blind the crew of a @coastguardph vessel with "military grade" laser squarely within the
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