WHY does Mr. Winston Garcia insist on representing the Government Service Insurance System in his fight with the Lopezes?
Does he really think that just because of his position in the GSIS, he represents all government employees? Has he tried to get their opinion? He is gambling with these employees’ future. The pension fund is not his alone. He is just its caretaker.
He will soon be out of office as soon as his bosses in Malacañang are either booted out or their terms expire. What will he do then? In my opinion, Mr Garcia might be diverting attention from his management of the pension fund altogether. His strategy seems to be to go after his neighbor’s trash so that his own trash won’t be looked at.
The Senate should start looking at the management of the pension fund. I’m not saying they’ll find anything there, but it’s worth it to take a cursory look at how it’s being managed being that it affects all past, present, and future government employees. Look at how the money is being invested, look at the balance sheets. It’s only fair we take a look at Mr Garcia’s backyard as well, not just the Lopezes. I’ll bet there are unwanted weeds and trash in his backyard that’ll need cleaning up or may lead to the eviction of its occupants.
– Bong Dignadice, Fontana, California (via e-mail)
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July 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
DJ,
Malabo alisin ang taxes. Pwede pa siguro reduce.
Kung ang SYSTEM LOSS ay nasa batas( general argument ng mga Lopez fans), Mas lalong nasa batas ang govt taxes. Problema lang kasi ay nasa crisis tayo ngayon dahil mataas na presyo ng langis kaya nasisilip ang VAT.
To my impression, VAT removal or other taxes to be scrapped totally is just a rich political battlecry by those who oppose the current admin. Its an agenda.
56% generation from Napocor? Ok talaga naman may “milagro” sa Napocor pero hindi buong 56% ang sa Napocor lang. Eh yung mga LOPEZ IPPs na kumukuha din ng supply ang Meralco? Hindi ba part of GENERATION charge din yun? So yung 56% na sinasabi mo eh pinaghahatian ng Napocor, First Phil Holdings(Lopez-owned), Quezon Power(Lopez-owned), ano pa ba?
Kaya kahit na anong depensa mo sa Meralco, sabit pa din dahil may parte sa generation charge ang mga Lopez IPPs. Alam mo ba ang accounting between Meralco and Lopez IPPs? Financial statement of these Lopez IPPs? Sige nga bata?
July 13th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
To: Toungetwisted & Vivic,
If you provide me with your respective e-mail, I can send you sample of my recently paid electricity bill. It is very simple and straightforward. Even a grade one pupil nowadays can easily understand. I have translated the Arabic wordings into English to enable you to understand.
As for your technical question, there is no need to answer point by point, the bill and the related charges speak for itself, once you got hold of the bill.
Notice that the rate charges based on the categorgy of kilowatts used are testimony that the the company shoulder any charge if there was/is any. On the miniscule rate charge, it is nearest to zero that there would be charges on the way MERALCO charges its customers for distribution, transmission, system losses etc. The rate for 0.05 halalas in the first 2,000 kilowats is very very minimal equivalent to about 0.55 centavos only.
Charges for system losses and distribution charges are only subterfuge charges for a greedy company like MERALCO.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Looks like some people here cannot equate electricity prices with oil prices.
In utilities here, prices per kWHr for residential users depends on the amount of power they use. So a user of less that 100 kWHr month will definitely pay less per kWHr than a user of 600 kWHrs a month. Small users of power usually have several subsidies going for them.
Winstong used this simple trickery in one of his many media appearances. And it seems many people were fooled. And are stil being fooled.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
after reading all the reactions re the meralco issue, i tend to agree more w/ harry king’s analogy. although, dj mazon’s suggestions re abolition of the e-vat on the system loss, etc. are just the perfect solutions.
one ex. of meralco’s lack of monitoring system….my electric meter was not working, so, i reported it to the meter reader, w/c he said “ok yan ma’am, hindi sira”. but, you might call me a fool, but, i cannot for the life of me be dishonest, as so many people are suffering from high power costs and here i am, not being billed rightly. so i called the hotline and reported it again, and it took them a month before the meter was replaced w/ a new one. and the irony of it is i might be billed for back payments! #%& imagine! i honestly reported this busted meter and now they will bill me for their undoing! what if i was dishonest? so will that form part of their systems loss?
why not have someone check the meters, and not rely on the lazy meter readers?
so, we should not absolve meralco. marami silang pagkukulang din….and this is just one incident….
whose job is it to check on the meters? di ba meralco?
July 12th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
estraza, you are clueless as to the pricing of electricity. anyone with experience knows that hydro is more expensive than gas, especially bunker or LNG plants. please research more on the matter. to help you, find the cost of the electricity that will be produced by the 3 gorges dam in china. include the cost of land that will be placed underwater and the cost of the dam. and then compare it with a gas plant in saudi. looks like you learned something new, hence the change in your tone. you’re lucky, I dont bet with clueless people.
harry king, if your bill is true, then it is time for you to get off your ass and go to the nearest meralco branch and file for a TOU scheme that will lower your electricity. the scheme has been open to customers with high consumption for over a year.