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We keep calling them ‘emergencies.’ How long can something remain an emergency? Christmas happens every year, we don’t call Christmas an…
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Innocent? Tell it to the Marines
A President who genuinely combed through P200 billion in flood control insertions found only P26 billion worth of rot because a full veto…
Milestone built on sand
The milestone is genuine. But it was built on consumption, remittance, and a bloated services sector, while manufacturing withered.
Pork-ridden budget
TA former Department of Budget and Management (DBM) senior official said these programs become a debt of gratitude owed to a politician…
No medals necessary
Criminals do not always flee in a straight line. Some deceive, discard their clothing to alter their appearance, or point pursuers the…
2027 NEP has zombie pork
Follow the trail and it runs straight to Malacañang. The LGSF sits under the Office of the President’s discretion by design, a zombie fund…
Survival mode
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the men around him are obviously guided by the next elections, two years away.
Model athletes
Like Eala, Diaz is also paying it forward. Long before she ended the country’s gold drought in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Diaz showed what it…
Epic disconnect
The gap between what a family needs and what the government considers acceptable to pay them is a canyon with a press release taped over it.
Hope needs receipts
Businesses do not manufacture consumer confidence. Only income growth, price stability, and a functioning peso do that, and none of the…
Poll-centered budget
The people this budget appears centered on are those running for office in 2028 who will need something to hand out between now and then.
Did pork come back smarter?
So what exactly died? Because this sounds like the pig is doing fantastic and is apparently more clever now.
Leadership fund, root of all evil
District congressmen got a baseline of P500 million each, partylist representatives from P120 million to P150 million.
Breakup ends in prison
SC was clear about it. Man was not convicted because he only broke a promise to marry.
NEP hides pork racket
Instead, the budget is kept voluminous and splits a single road repair project into a half-dozen items, maintenance here, rehabilitation…
As floodwaters rise, so do doubts
A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
Floods, kickbacks, moro-moro
The blueprint for saving lives was available, but it was set aside so a mafia of contractors and their patrons in government could carve up…
America can’t do plumbing right
America’s confrontation with Iran has demonstrated something that military balance sheets tend to conceal: superpower status does not make…