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But how about big funds with someone who keeps saving to end up putting it into DAP?

But how about big funds with someone who keeps saving to end up putting it into DAP?

Now something better can begin. Better and well studied national budgets should be the focus of national governance.

“The Supreme Court declares #PDAF #UNCONSTITUTIONAL in a unanimous vote against the PDAF 14-0.” This breaking story is spreading in social media.

The Legislature in session should deliberate budgets that anticipate the growing risks of climate change with the development of better and larger evacuation centers, relocation of communities from disaster risk areas, and eradicate off-budget funds while providing reasonable contingency amounts.

No more PDAF or whatever name the authorities call their discretionary funds. THAT’S SOMETHING WE ALL MUST CONTINUE TO WATCH OUT FOR. Clever politicians keep using different names to get the same bonus budgets for their vested interests.

But imagine people at the airport and military facilities, including PAGASA operations in Tacloban remained in an area that was identified as high risk to the predicted storm surge! Was that the local or national government’s look out? With previous catastrophes from Sendong, Pablo, and Ondoy, shouldn’t the President’s funds have been spent for that earlier? No DAP for that, huh?

Mayor Romualdez doubtless could not build better evacuation facilities a few days before Yolanda hit. Someone else had much bigger funds to spend for that.

As Typhoon PDAF has been struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, I pray it will curb even Super Typhoon DAP soon. And daPNoy should begin thinking about spending more reasonably for relocation sites for communities mapped in disaster prone areas and also for fortified and wider evacuation centers before the next calamities come. My “apo” (grandson) is just 10 months old and now walks in the sala, the kitchen, and outside the house. I hope he will have somewhere to run to when something big hits Metro Manila in the coming years.

PNoy is so used to approval ratings he wants to pass the buck to somebody else. He can spend big funds after the storms passed and destroyed many lives and properties. Now he can spend to build temporary shelters and then perhaps relocation areas. He doesn’t know how to spend them ahead before something bad happens.

So let’s have a reasonable national budget and not leave big funds to someone who keeps saving funds and ends up putting it into DAP. ~@Earl1901

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