Who caused MORE damage to the country, ERAP OR GMA? Why?

[bad donkey!]

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walay mapili nilang tanan. its so sad that the nature of our democracy is that the people has the power. But the truth is the government and the officials have the power.

[Moshi Moshi]

Who is Winston Garcia? Are they related to General Garcia? Gwen Garcia?

GSIS executives were giving themselves more than P100,000 in monthly salaries. Winston Garcia received P564,000 monthly salary for the past years as GSIS president and general manager.

"I have nothing personal against Garcia except that they have the monopoly of automatically deducting money from my payroll," Boado said.

Imagine the officials receiving so much salary when streetsweepers earning less than P7,000 a month, are getting less because of the automatic payments to the GSIS, she added.

Boado, who earns P25,000 a month as COA director 3, heaves a sigh.

President Arroyo "placed everyone on notice that every peso counts and every government official and worker must justify every peso of its budget and make it work for the people’s benefit."

Presidential Decree 1597 of 1978, the Salary Standardization Law (SSL) and Memorandum Order 20 of 2001 that both tried to trim the fat off the bureaucracy.

Both laws and the Arroyo administration order were violated by the GSIS executives, led by Winston Garcia.

"Close scrutiny of the salaries, allowances, fringe benefits received by its [GSIS] executives and members of the Board of Trustees for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003, reveals the great disparity between the compensation and benefits package of GSIS executives and employees against that of their counterparts in the national government agencies and other GOCCs [government-owned and -controlled corporations]," the Boado report cited.

Winston Garcia’s monthly salary was nine times higher than what a department secretary received in past years. Garcia’s accountant 1’s salary was four times higher than what an accountant 3 in other government agency receives.

She cited that while she drives an assembled Asian utility vehicle, Winston Garcia drives around in a Volvo.

"Before the money, it should be public service first," Boado said.

This was how the Commission on Audit’s Special Audit Team described the compensation package of the Government Service Insurance System in its report on the results of a special investigation into selective transactions of GSIS from 2000 to 2004.

In its 76-page report, the Special Audit Team cited the Third International Webster’s Dictionary definition of the term “unconscionable� as “shockingly unfair, unjust, and outrageous.�

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=10688

[Moshi Moshi]

http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/...2.hed05.htmlÂ* CORRUPTION BIG TIME

Some known congressional allies, one of whom is a congresswoman known to be staunchly supportive of Mrs. Arroyo, were reported to have received the P200,000 initial “goodwillâ€� money from still unidentified government fund sources.Â* there goes our new loan. who says we are on fiscal crises?

The money is meant to “convince� the administration allies who have privately committed to support the impeachment complaint against the President not to sign the complaint. They were said to have promised P1 million plus additional project-funding in their respective districts, by Malacañang. in which they can put it to their own savings account

A highly reliable source from the House of Representatives named a female legislator from Luzon and one from Region 1 as among the first few members of the House who had already benefited from the “well-oiled money machinery� of Malacañang, which money reportedly is sourced not only from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) but also from the Road Users' Tax.

The female legislator, sources said, had indiscreetly asked a fellow congressman if he had already received his share of the goodwill money since she already obtained her P200,000 last Wednesday.

“She practically admitted it.

earlier, then denied it but later admitted it directly when she was confronted by others,� the source, who requested not to be identified, told the Tribune.

The other congressman was also said to have bragged about the “gift� he had received, but quickly claimed “it was not intended for the killing of the impeachment complaint. These two congressmen are members of the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), Mrs. Arroyo's political party.

Another congressman said if members of Kampi got only P200,000, some members of the Lakas had already gotten their share of P1 million each. “That's why they are being called the P1 million men of GMA.�

Some of these legislators come from the Visayas region. “There are Visayans who admitted to us that the budget for this Malacañang gift came from the NCA but they said they would sign anyway because it really wasn't GMA's money.�

Ilocos Norte Rep. Imee Marcos, one of the members of the legal team assigned by the opposition to work on the amendments, admitted that Malacañang had already allocated funds for its operation.

Marcos refused to name the sources of the funds allocated for this.

At the same time, she confirmed a colleague's revelation that P200,000 had been allocated for each congressman who initially agreed not to support the impeachment complaint. Marcos said more are still coming in, in the form of cash and projects.

Not only that, the Ilocos Norte congressman added, P1 million had also been allocated for “PR� to the “spokesmen� and also the media bureau that the office of Speaker Jose de Venecia had organized.

She would not elaborate, but another member of the opposition said government money started pouring in the moment the opposition in the House considered pursuing the impeachment process against the President.

Malacañang, for its part, also yesterday expressed confidence that the impeachment complaint against the President will not reach the Senate as this would be easy to dismiss, bragging that Mrs. Arroyo continues to wield her strong influence over Congress as well as enjoying the full support of the Speaker.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita boasted that the “ambition� of the opposition to immediately elevate the impeachment complaint against Mrs. Arroyo to the Senate assuming it had gathered one-third votes or 79 signatories from more than 230 congressmen would not happen, saying this would definitely go to the committee on justice and hinting that this would then be dismissed.

This also means that the complaint if scrutinized by the committee on justice could take three to six months before a ruling would be issued.

Ermita said Malacañang has already coordinated with De Venecia who assured the President that they have enough numbers in Congress to handle the impeachment complaint.

“Just yesterday (Wednesday), we (De Venecia) were together. He assured me that we have a great majority of supporters in the House that should be able to handle the impeachment case very well. By handle, meaning through the usual procedure of having it done through committee work and done in plenary,� he added.

The President's aide said Mrs. Arroyo is still the leader of the country's biggest political group and enjoys the respect of its members.

“Well I can say the President has the support (in the House) because the President is the chairman of the ruling party together with Speaker De Venecia,� he stressed.

Even if the impeachment pushes through and is elevated to the Senate, Ermita expressed doubt that Senate President Franklin Drilon who withdrew support from the President would still be the Senate president.

He strongly hinted that Drilon would be ousted and changes would happen in the Senate after the President delivers her State of the Nation Address on July 25.

Bulag Pipi at Bingi.

----------------------------------Â* 07-22-2005 UPDATE ------------------------------------
Nueva Ecija town mayor's son found dead in Makati

First posted 08:47am (Mla time) July 22, 2005
INQ7.net, GMA7

THE SON of a town mayor in Nueva Ecija province was found dead shortly after midnight Friday in his home in Makati City, GMA Network's "Unang Hirit" reported on the same day.

The report said police were investigating whether Alexis Gamilla, son of Bongabon town Mayor Beth Gamilla, committed suicide or accidentally shot himself after he was found with a .45 caliber pistol inside his room in an apartment he shared with his live-in partner at Mayapis Street, San Antonio Village.

Gamilla's live-in partner claimed that Gamilla was cleaning his gun when she heard a shot, the report said.

An initial police report was quoted as saying that Gamilla was left-handed but that the wound, which caused his death, was on his right temple. Police said they would subject Gamilla to a paraffin test for powder burns.

Gamilla worked as security for the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor).

[FK]

whaaaaaatttt..... hala sige pa. ilara pa ninyo ang mga taw.

[riko diko]

GMA did more damage. Media and ERAP we're not good friends, that's why a lot of people think ERAP did more.

[wanderlust]

GMA did more damage. Media and ERAP we're not good friends, that's why a lot of people think ERAP did more.

Ganito na lang...maglagay kayo dito ng mga accomplishments ni Erap tapos maglalagay din ako ng accomplishments ni GMA. Ok ba?

[Moshi Moshi]

Corruption In Higher Office

A PARTY-LIST congressman disclosed on Friday an alleged attempt by Malacañang to bribe him with some five million pesos worth of cash and projects in exchange for withdrawing his support for an impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who had been linked to electoral fraud.
Alliance of Volunteer Educators (AVE) Party-list Representative Eulogio Magsaysay said people from the Palace offered him a 200,000-peso cash downpayment and an additional 300,000 pesos during the course of the impeachment process.

"If we would include the projects, I would say (that the offer) was around five million pesos," he told a press conference.

"I am [a] hypocrite if I say that maybe if they offered me 50 million pesos I might not think twice. I don't want to sound dramatic but I think my fear for God would prevail," he said.

He said Malacañang also promised a sure slot for the AVE in the 2007 election.

Magsaysay said he would identify those people who approached Â*him if they criticized him for disclosing this to the public.

He said he was also willing to face the consequence of his action -- be it his removal from the majority bloc.

"I was disillusioned that's why I signed the impeachment complaint," Magsaysay said.

Magsaysay also claimed that aside from him, four members of the Liberal Party and the ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats received the same offer.

Magsaysay said that four to five people identified with Malacañang, two of them from the House of Representatives, called him during the week and asked him to either keep quiet or sign a manifesto supporting the President.

House Senior Deputy Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano lambasted the administration for resorting to dirty tactics to kill the impeachment complaint against the President.

"Can you imagine that they are also dangling the 2007 election to congressmen?" Cayetano asked.

"This is a survival thing for the Palace. At the start they will court you but later on there is subliminal message to congressmen that this is your survival [too] because I will need you later on," he said.

Cayetano challenged the administration to become transparent and disclose all the executive and administrative orders that they had issued, recent appointments in government, and the special allotment release order (SARO) of congressmen.

He particularly cited the alleged appointments of two associate commissioners in the Bureau of Immigration and five under secretaries in the Department of Justice.
http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?i...story_id=44414

Bulag Pipi at Bingi 2x

Ganito na lang...maglagay kayo dito ng mga accomplishments ni Erap tapos maglalagay din ako ng accomplishments ni GMA. Ok ba?Â*

Arroyo administration's release of 8.3 billion pesos in April 2004 for the construction of Bailey bridges “that led to nowhere.â€� “Long bridge, short bridge, unfinished bridge -- all of them in different locations but each one costing the sameÂ* -- 16,852,899.08 pesos", Â* Â*http://news.inq7.net/top/index.php?i...story_id=44401

[FK]

@wanderlust: wala'y bawt si ERAP kay 1 yr kapin ra man tingali to siya... pero si GMA hapit na mo unom ka tuig. hehehehe...

[giver_bert]

the one who caused more damage is the one who's not that good at covering his/her filthy tracts..

[Moshi Moshi]

THE Cebu Provincial Board (PB) committee on laws shot down a proposed ordinance seeking to clip the governor’s powers over disbursement of Capitol’s funds.

In a report he is submitting in today’s session, committee on laws chairman Antonio Almirante Jr. said budget committee head Gabriel Luis Quisumbing’s proposed ordinance is unnecessary.

Quisumbing had proposed an ordinance that will allow the governor to augment items from within the same expense class “only� if there is a corresponding ordinance from the PB.

The move was presented after members found that Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia was able to enter into a P7.2-million contract for the outsourcing of medical personnel even without their knowledge, by the use of an existing augmentation ordinance.

The contract for the outsourcing was not included in the annual budget, but the ordinance Garcia used provides that she could augment any allocation using savings from within the same expense class.

Quisumbing, in his proposal, said mechanisms should be put in place to promote transparency in the use of public funds.

“With due respect to its industrious and learned author, Hon. Gabriel Quisumbing, it is most respectfully recommended that Section 3 of the proposed ordinance be revised to delete the portion which would require a second ordinance to authorize the contemplated augmentation.� JPM http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...er.funds..html

A good ordinance that promotes transparency deleted. An ordinance that check and balances Capitol Funds shot down by Almirante. A possible corruption uncovered but covered up.

Does Cebu needs to outsourced medical personnel where there are hundreds of medical students helping Cebu's hospitals?Â* Who owned this Medical Company that supplies the outsourced personnel? I bet they have lots of shares invested in this company.

Bulag, Pipi at Bingi 3x