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Audit wants Aquino’s pork scrapped
By admin | Posted on Sep. 18, 2012 at 12:01am | 1,952 views

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As early as 2010, the Commission on Audit has recommended to President Benigno Aquino III the scrapping of the now P317-billion Special Purpose Fund and P117-billion unprogrammed funds to avoid “distortion and duplication” in the budget.

This was revealed by former National Treasurer Leonor Briones on Monday during an interview with Manila Standard Today.

Briones, a convenor of the Social Watch Philippines (SWP) with around 100 NGO members like the Alternative Budget Initiatives (ABI), said the special fund or lump sum appropriations, could be a potential source of corruption, considering that the President can realign the funds to suit his purpose during elections next year. These funds would amount to “pork barrel,” she said.

“The COA, in its findings and recommendations in 2010, said the SPF should be deleted because everything in the budget should be clear and transparent. There should be no room for budgets with only general assumptions and no details,” Briones said.

The COA wanted the SPF removed because the public would only know the details of the allocated items or where the money went one year after the money had already been spent.

Budget Secretary Florencio Abad vowed to provide Congress with the details of SPF before this could be approved on third and final reading.

Briones said the COA made the recommendation based on its findings in 2008 and 2009 that the government had exceeded the budget because of lump sum appropriations.

“For example, the total 2013 appropriation for the Department of Public Works and Highways is P151.76 billion. But since there were projects under the SPF such as the P1 billion for Department of Education Program, the infrastructure projects under the legislators’ P24.89 billion pork barrel that will be transferred later on to DPWH to implement the projects, the allocated funds for DPWH will balloon and thus will be distorted,” Briones said.

“In short, instead of P151.76 billion, when you add the two items under the SPF to the DPWH total budget, this would amount to P177.65 billion when the public was made to believe that they would only shell out P151.76 billion for infrastructure projects,”she said.

This, she said, was only a fraction of what was actually hidden under the vague SPF and unprogrammed funds, a standby appropriations, which would authorize additional expenditures in excess of the original budget.

This item would be implemented only when revenue collections exceed the resource targets assumed in the budget, or when additional foreign project loan proceeds were realized.

“In fact, the hidden and vague SPF and unprogrammed funds would now bring a total of P434 billion under President Aquino’s discretion,” Briones said.

[hulagway]

asta ang T-50 hapit na mahimong fantasy...

faets aning gobyerno sa pilipinas nganong dli man tawn cla mag pinareha sa indonasia nga top of the line jud gipang acquire....

after sa F5 nato wala na man gud laing jet nga gigamit ang PAF aside from limited flying hours sa S211 mao nga needed jud ang trainer..mapa t-50 man o m-346..in that case kinahanglang pud sa PAF mg palit ug true MRF para dili gamiton ang Trainer jet as "PWDE NAYAN MRF" so hopefully ang by phase nga modernization program nila is matupad para dili sayang ang pag palit ug trainer jet.

[salbahis]

Anyways here is good read about T-50 acquisition, Surface Attack Aircraft/Lead-In Fighter Trainer

Retitled: Surface Attack Aircraft (SAA) / Lead-In Fighter Trainer (LIFT) project

Most country who operated MRF go to this road before committing to next gen MRF fighter... beside T-50 is based from F16 design... so im assuming we are going to get F16 in the future...

actually baliktad mga taw diri... gustog shortcut... mao rana ako masulti... makapawala sa gana ug contribute....

[elvandesantos]

klaroha na imong pag commentaryo ha? kadaghan tawo dha dli offensive mo commentaryo..hatag opinion imo yaw birahi ang opinion sa uban... furom mani dli mani debate.... dli ta parehag opinion leave it that way wa ko maki alam sa imong opinion yaw sad pang hilabot sa ako.....pakensiton kunang dagway nimo ron... yaw salig ga tago ra ka sa imong kwarto salig sa mama.... WTFC if na OT ka... kung hawd ka sa inyo yaw palabi....

na tyming lang nga ikaw maoy ako ma comentaryohan.. which means, imo mga post daghan correctionan.. d mani hinaworay diri. padaghanay lang ni sah nahibaw-an.. ug uyon mo dawat ug unsay i-correction sah uban. busa ayaw pag huna2x nga ikaw ako gibirahan.. sikat ra kaayo ka para ako permi atngan FYI lang.

back to topic.. naa kwarta ang gobyerno bitaw. pero ang pangutana igo bah? naay mapalit wala sah budget nga hardwares.. pero at the expense of "budget realignment"... in short naa ma sacripisyo sah projected budget nah unta dapat sah usa ka proyekto..

[elvandesantos]

after sa F5 nato wala na man gud laing jet nga gigamit ang PAF aside from limited flying ours sa S211 mao nga needed jud ang trainer..napa t-50 man o m-346..in that case kinahanglang pud sa PAF mg palit ug true MRF para dili gamiton ang Trainer jet as "PWDE NAYAN MRF" so hopely ang by phase nga demonetization program nila is matupad para dili sayang ang pag palit ug trainer jet.

exactly what i want someone here to understand.. we cannot just buy in generation 5 planes without those trainers. but, buying those trainers..there should be then future plan in buying true MRF dayon....


pero ambisyoso rah kaau ang gobyerno natoh anang mga gen5 planes oi... or ang uban mga tao dra. duha ra ka nasud nag operate ug mga gen5 planes.. duha rasad ka klse nah nga gen5 planes on both nations. d pwede sah ato-a.. balaod nka ingon nga dapat atleast 3 nations operated such hardwares. (china being 3rd operator of gen5 planes-i dont consider, copycats!)

[NapoleonBlownapart]

Naa bay time frame ang modernization law?

[eByong]

if ma push through c T-50 mayta kad2 e consider ang combat variants para pwede trainer/light attack as well

[jeremiahjay]

Pangutana lang ning ako..In the falkland war..The British (using harriers) defeated the Argentine forces (using French Mirage III). I don't know if it is related to dog fights or refueling issues, or both; the "inferior" harrier beat the mirage..

My question is this, if we will be using those trainers like T-50, does this mean that it will be easily shut down by a generation 5 plane? or somehow it could pose a fight? Is the difference too significant?

Salamat sa pagclarify..

[elvandesantos]

Pangutana lang ning ako..In the falkland war..The British (using harriers) defeated the Argentine forces (using French Mirage III). I don't know if it is related to dog fights or refueling issues, or both; the "inferior" harrier beat the mirage..

My question is this, if we will be using those trainers like T-50, does this mean that it will be easily shut down by a generation 5 plane? or somehow it could pose a fight? Is the difference too significant?

Salamat sa pagclarify..

unlike the british who uses carriers to launch attacks, argentinians based there there attack in argentina itself.. british won piece by piece thru land battles not by air. argentinians did a god job blewing up ships using exocet missles and it did terrible damage to the british...

british also heavily uses the bluff trick during those wars.


generation 5 planes vs trainers? i dont know, but those planes are highly specified in engaging fighter jets.. trainer jets are classified gen 2 planes i think. not to mention gen5 planes are stealth, which sucks.

[trazee]

Pangutana lang ning ako..In the falkland war..The British (using harriers) defeated the Argentine forces (using French Mirage III). I don't know if it is related to dog fights or refueling issues, or both; the "inferior" harrier beat the mirage..

My question is this, if we will be using those trainers like T-50, does this mean that it will be easily shut down by a generation 5 plane? or somehow it could pose a fight? Is the difference too significant?

Salamat sa pagclarify..

Sometimes Pilot skills play an important role to determine victory or defeat..

Col. Jesus villamor managed to shot down 4 superior japanese planes using his P26 peashooter hehe