ANG BINUBUSOG NI PNOY AY YUNG MGA NASA ITAAS LAMANG

Workers protest MWSS board's 'excessive' allowances

By Alvin Elchico, ABS-CBN News

Posted at 08/13/2012 5:41 PM | Updated as of 08/14/2012 8:24 AM

MWSS chairman denies allegations

MANILA, Philippines - Employees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Monday held a protest rally to denounce what they call are "excessive" benefits given to members of its board.
Holding placards and streamers, around 30 MWSS employees protested during their lunch break. They claimed that each board member is paid P9,000 per regular committee meeting and P 15,000 for board meeting.
Nap Quiñones, MWSS Labor Association president, claimed MWSS officials and consultants are violating the new government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) law.
The group said MWSS trustees would schedule 4 committee meetings in a day, which would total earnings of P36,000 a day.
The group also accused the new MWSS management of hiring 36 consultants at P30,000 each.
They noted while the board members slashed their meal allowance of P150 a day to P3 a day, they feasted on excessive allowances.
The protesters were joined outside the MWSS by consumer group Water for All Refund Movement (WARM) who also denounced the hefty allowances and demanded the ouster of MWSS officials.
WARM also insisted on the refund of around P2 billion in collections to fund the cancelled Laiban dam and Bulacan irrigation projects initiated by the MWSS during the previous administration.
'Baseless accusations'
MWSS chairman Ramon Alikpala said all the accusations of the group were not true and have no basis. While Alikpala did not dispute the P9,000 per diem for each committee meeting, he insisted that the board members do not receive compensation or salary package.
He said this amount is within bounds of the law. Alikpala said it is not true that members of the board had meetings held 4 times a day.
There was an instance in April that several committee meetings were held but Alikpala said these were attended by different members of the board.
Compared to the previous chairman of the board who received P5 million a year, Alikpala said he only gets an income of P500,000, just a fraction of what his predecessor got.
Alikpala admitted the reduction of the meal allowance but stressed the additional compensation has no basis in law. He also defended the hiring of consultants which he claimed are needed in specialized area concerns of the MWSS but the number did not reach 36 at all.
When asked if he will resign, Alikpala said "if I do leave MWSS, it won't be because of this."
Meanwhile, Alikpala said the collected amount for the shelved Laiban and Bulacan irrigation project will not be refunded since the government will push through with these projects anyway. Any over- or undercollection can be remedied in the current rate rebasing done by the MWSS regulatory office for both Maynilad and Manila Water, he added.

DID WE REALLY HAVE DAANG MATUWID UNDER JUDAS?

INSPITE OF ALL THE HARDSHIPS THAT WE, FILIPINO BROTHERS AND SISTERS HAVE TO ENDURE EVERYDAY, THIS CLOWN KEEPS ON SMILING, LAUGHING, PLAYING, ACTING AND PROCRASTINATING. PREVIOUSLY AND ACCORDING TO HIM, WHEN HE BECOMES PRESIDENT, THERE WILL BE NO TAXES NOR ANY FORM OF INCREASE IN LEVIES. PERO ANO ANG TOTOONG MGA NANGYARI? 

1. OIL HIKE.
2. SKYWAY TOLL HIKE
3. LRT HIKE
4. MRT HIKE
5. RENT HIKE
6. HOMEOWNERS TAX
7. INCREASE IN TAX OF PROFESSIONALS LIKE LAWYERS, DOCTORS, BROKERS, NURSES
6. 15% INCREASE IN WITHOLDING TAX OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SALARIES AND OVERTIME BENEFITS
7. NO INCREASE IN TEACHERS' SALARY
8. NO INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SALARIES
9. COMPANIES WHOSE OWNERS ARE ELITE FRIENDS OF PNOY ARE TAXING THEIR EMPLOYEES WITH IMPUNITY, ABUSE IN OUTSOURCING WITHOUT PROTECTION TO LABOR, INCREASING PRICES OF PRODUCTS 
10. SMUGGLING AND SMUGGLER FRIENDS OF PNOY ARE MAKING A KILLING EVERYDAY
11. PERSECUTION AND PROSECUTION OF OUR GOOD AND LOYAL PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD
12. OVERTAXING THE MIDDLE CLASS TO FINANCE THE CCT PROGRAM OF PNOY. PINAGNANAKAWAN NIYA TAYONG MGA MIDDLE CLASS THROUGH TAXES PARA MA-SUBSIDIZE ANG MGA PROYEKTO NIYA PARA SA MGA "MAHIRAP"
13. AIRLINE COMPANIES LIKE CEBU PACIFIC WHOE JET RECENTLY 'SLIPPED" IN DAVAO WAS JUST GIVEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST
14. AMONG ALL THE AIRLINES, PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (OWNED BY RAMONG ANG AND DANDING COJUANGCO) WAS ALLOWED TO ENTER EUROPEAN AIRSPACE AND FERRY PASSENGERS
15. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT ASSIDUOUSLY PROSECUTING LUCIO TAN AS PRINCIPAL TAX EVADER
16. HENRY SY, WHO LOANED MILLIONS OF PESOS FOR HIS BUSINESS DURING THE TIME OF CORY AQUINO, HAS NOT YET PAID HIS FULL AMOUNT OF THE LOAN AND INTEREST TO THE LANDBANK
17. DURING PNOY'S DAANG TUWAD, WE HAVE BEEN BULLIED BY CHINA, TAIWAN, MIDDLE EAST, AMERICA AND YET PNOY IS DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
18. MASSIVE LAY-OFF AND INDISCRIMINATE FIRING OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES


IT SEEMS THAT THIS DEVIL IS JUST MASTURBATING ALL THE TIME IN HIS ROOM AT THE PALACE. 

KUNG WALA RAW CORRUPT, WALANG MAHIRAP. CORRECTION: REMOVE AND SURRENDER YOUR PORK BARREL, WALANG MAGIGING CORRUPT!

IMPEACH AND OUST PNOY COJUANGCO TAKAW AQUINO!

SPEAK

 

IN THE NAME OF ALL THE FREEDOM LOVING FILIPINOS OF THIS NATION, 

IN THE NAME OF OUR GREATEST FOREFATHERS,

IN THE NAME OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR US,

WHO GUIDED US, 

AND THOSE WHO DIED FOR US, 

DURING OUR TIME OF DARKNESS, 

OUR TIME OF DESPAIR, 

AND IN THEIR MEMORY....

 AND TO THOSE THAT CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE, 

TO MAKE THIS NATION GREAT.

WE DECLARE:

FILIPINOS, LET US UNITE!

LET US PUT AN END UNTO THIS TYRANNY.

LET US PUT AN END UNTO THIS MADNESS.

LET US CHANGE OUR NATION.

LET US CHANGE OUR DESTINY.

FELLOW FILIPINOS.

AND BEFORE THE WORLD.

LET US STAND AND SPEAK.

DI MARUNONG MAGBAYAD!

HOY MR. FLORENCIO ABAD, PUTANG INA KA!

BAYARAN NIYO NA ANG LEASE NG AIRFORCE SA PALAWAN. NAGREREKLAMO NA MAY-ARI NG LUPA SINCE 1973 PA!

TARANTADO KAYONG MGA GARAPATA KAYO! 

I-PRIORITY NINYO ANG KABAYARAN NG LEASE AGREEMENT SA DAANG MATUWID PROGRAM NIYONG PULPOL!

SINTO-SINTONG GOBYERNO

Delusional government

By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Apr. 29, 2013 at 12:01am | 116 views

IT was embarrassing to listen to President Aquino badmouth members of his own economic team last week simply because they reported that poverty had remained unchanged since 2006.
The statistics, released every three years by the National Statistical Coordination Board, showed that 28 out of 100 Filipinos still lived in poverty as of 2012, much as they did in 2006. While the numbers were reported without comment, they clearly suggested what Mr. Aquino was loathe to admit. Nothing he did in his first two years in office put a dent in the war on poverty, and the billions he had squandered on his so-called 4Ps program, a straight dole to the “poorest of the poor” families, had accomplished nothing that was statistically significant.
On this basis, the President called into question the veracity of the statistics and even the motives of the bureaucrats in his government that collated them. Pointing to an unrelated statistical error that was reported by a completely different agency of government, he cast doubts on the NSCB for sharing an inconvenient truth with the public.
The behavior is sadly typical of an administration that has mastered the art of cherry-picking figures that put it in a good light and dismissing or even discrediting data that lifts the curtain on its failures. The offshoot of this practice is that it leads to a false sense of accomplishment and provides a poor basis for sound policy making.
For the last three years, we have had to listen to Mr. Aquino blame his predecessor for all the country’s woes, and paint a rosy picture of change under his administration in his annual State of the Nation Address. But we now know from experience that what Mr. Aquino says often bears little resemblance to the unadorned truth.
Last year, for example, he boasted that disaster response under his administration was so good that “relief goods are ready even before a storm arrives.” It isn’t farfetched to believe that Mr. Aquino’s complacency and confidence contributed to the social disaster that followed in Davao, where starving farmers, victims of a powerful typhoon, stormed a government warehouse in February after the Department of Social Welfare and Development had failed to keep its promise to distribute sacks of rice to them to stave off hunger. Confronted with her failure to do her job, the Cabinet member responsible simply turned the tables on the typhoon victims, calling them “agitators” and threatening to charge them in court.
In the same State of the Nation Address last year, the President boasted that the agrarian reform program that his mother had begun during her term would finally see fruition under his guidance. The inconvenient truth: one full year after the Supreme Court ordered Mr. Aquino’s family to distribute its Hacienda Luisita sugar estate to tenant farmers, not a single square meter of farmland has changed hands.
Mr. Aquino’s love of the positive also colors his relationship with the press, whom he has constantly chided to focus on good news and to “avoid negativism” – which is fast becoming an administration mantra.
United States President Barack Obama, whom Mr. Aquino likes to style himself after, offered a contrasting view at a recent dinner for the press. “My job is to be the president, your job is to keep me humble,” he told the roomful of journalists.
On the other hand, Mr. Aquino insists that the role of media is to make him look good, whether he deserves it or not.