Credibilty crisis is nothing new. Since GMA grabbed presidency through conspirative plotting against Estrada while saying to respect his being elected by a big majority of voters, there was no credibility from the beginning.
We have to remind that under her regime such plotters would face maximum sentences, lifeterm jail. So there was not much reason and chance that this government ever has and had a big credibility.
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I am tired of this credibility crisis. It is already boring.
People always talk of credibility, moral bankruptcy, moral ascendancy and so and so forth.
Why, are we all saints? To be walking in a fine line.
Kaya walang nangyayari, masyadong metikulusyo. Lahat binibigyan ng kahulugan.
Lahat puna, lahat pula, wala namang ibinibigay na gawa o aksiyon.
Just what I said, New Year will be greeted by these re harsh, recycled accusations and topic.
Para tayong sirang plaka, paulit ulit in this age of dvd, mp3 and dvd.
Now, Mr.Calaycay, first you look at the mirror kung wala dungis.
Kung wala, baka naman sa isip, nagisip ka ng masama sa kapwa or think of lust.
Now, if you have kalaykayin mo ang dumi mo.
Credibility is only in the mind.
Lahat tayo walang credibility kung ang magsasabi ay taong ayaw sa atin.
Like you, you said Gloria has no credibility, much more you have no credibility for you have nothing to present as accomplishment.

The Empress’ new clothes, designed and tailored by Messrs. FVR and JDV, respectively, are still holdings her sycophants in awe; in spite of Juan de la Cruz cry that the Empress is bumba (naked).

Credibility of MIKE DEFENSOR

When it comes to credibility, our high-ranking government officials on the three branches namely the Judiciary, Legislative, and Executive has dismal record involving decency and forthright despensation of their duties.

In today’s news, I read about the “Malacañang boys cheered too soon”. It is economic news mentioning the Philippines vis avis with China as the country who will best weather the world economic crisis, but was vehemently denied by Bloomberg News .

Heaven forbids! But who spread this rumors about Philippines associating itself with China, a super power, regarding surviving the economic woes?

Why associate with a super power when the Philippine government spents 40% of its income to pay its domestic and foreign obligation on interest alone?

Why associate with a super power when our government is a perrenial borrower to the IMF, Asian Development Bank, to our local investors, and to who ever will lent, short to a “Bombay’s five-six?

Why assiciate with a super power when every year, our government divest itself of people’s assets such as Petron, Port Bonifacio, a portion of U.P. Diliman’s compound, Reclamation area at Manila Bay illigally sequested from StoneHill, Airforce Base in Nichols, PNB, EQUITABLE BANK and U.C.P.B. Whoes real owners are the POOR Coconut Farmers all over the country,and other properties.

And in the lower part of the news, it says that the ORIGIN of the rumor originated from Former Secretary MIKE DEFENSOR!

What do I know about these guy? Plenty!

On the HELLO GARCI, I still remember that MIKE DEFENSOR brought a “so-called” voice expert to repudiate the voice of PGMA on the Hello Garci tape. And later on, the “so-called” expert left the country without any conclusive report to the authenticity of the voice. Most probably, under threat, he was pressured by Malacanang to make a false statement, and the poor guy being too honest left the country.

I remember MIKE DEFENSOR, being the UnderSecretary of DENR out of no-where, awarded Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a turn-coat, thousands of hectares logging concessions in Samar, which was twarted by the NGO’s and Religious groups.

I remember MIKE DEFENSOR as the one who gave Jun Lozada (NBN-ZTE Scandal), fifty thousand pesos (PHP 50,000), which was construed as a bribe to silence him, and was subsequently returned back to MIKE DEFENSOR.

I remember MIKE DEFENSOR, again out of no-where, became a corporate partner of ZTE on a gold mine venture in Mindanao. What does he know about mining? Or did he use his office as Under Secretary of DENR to favor ZTE and himself. This is a direct violation of the OMNIBUS LAW prohibiting government officials to personally profit on any undertaking, spacially business, using their government position. On the other hand, is MALACANANG again involved?

And I see MIKE DEFENSOR always in the company of PGMA on almost all her NON-PRODUCTIVE and wastefull trips abroad, the expenses (by the millions of pesos) inevitably charges to JUAN DE LA CRUZ.

Finally, the latest stance. Here is an excerpt;
“When contacted for verification, Secretary Dureza said his information about the Bloomberg report came from former Secretary Mike Defensor, who reportedly watched Bloomberg news on TV in Hong Kong on Dec. 30, 2008.”
MIKE DEFENSOR, in spite of his brilliance, is prone to committing dastardly acts to serve and protect his master, PGMA.

MIKE, try your luck next time. Perhaps, you may succeed in fooling us.

The trick is to take things easy pretending she is not there. Pamatay oras habang walang alternatibo.

Remember, what she does will make it also possible for others ahead of her. So, probably they also thought about that everytime? I hope so.

That is the shout of the tyrant about to go down. And like the new year, i hope she goes not with a whimper but with a bang!!!

Talk Economics? What is there to talk about? The Philippines is at an all time low, i mean how low can you go?

As a send off to the WEAKEST LINK, to GMArroyo we say GOODBYE!!!

Yes, talk economics, but what have we got? I hope they have it. Selling petron, meralco, pnoc kung anoano pa seems to be what there is to this “economics”.

“Recession wont be felt in Third world countries”. Fine. Right. the poor are already poor so they wont feel it.

Traders wont feel it. If they operate around 35% gross profit, it will always be 35% profit. pasa burden lang yan.

How about the middle class, fixed income earners, and the producers? I think what we have seen are only tremors before the real thing - global recession. I think we have not seen it yet.

To the First World this is only simple retrenchment for them. They have shortage of labor, so they simply stop importing. How about the third world? guess.

Sorry to these ceedy oppositionist…..Its better for Gloria to finish her term in 2010 rather than do a more stingky move of removing her from Malacanang prior to 2010.

The people dont want to gamble with such faces of Erap, Binay, Mar Roxas and her brattish girl Corina Sanches. The paid campaign of the Lopez’ ABS-CBN by some stingky opposition politicians to air their selfish ambitions.

Sawa na ang taong-bayan sa mga rhetorics ng mga opposisyong ito.

TWO BILLION AND EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION FOR A PONY SANITARY LANDFILL PROJECT!
There is no such thing as sanitary landfill. Ultimately, the waste as well as the toxic matters will sip down wherein it polutes the underground water. This is just a gimmick to steal 2.8 billion pesos from the people’s money.

Our government has bags full of tricks to legalize stealing our money. What they do is concoct fantastic ideas (government projects) which ultimately are left unfinish, and in many cases, finish but dismally does not work, and ultimately abandoned. The billions of pesos for these projects gone; Juan de la Cruz bears the brunt of paying these useless projects.

We have Senator Zubiri’s jetropa (alternate bio-fuel) that will cost Juan de la Cruz four billion pesos. Where will he plant thousands and thousands of hectares of Jetropa?

Europe has already abandoned these idea because it runs counter to food production. Does the Senator wants to substitue food for Jetropa? Is the good Senator not aware that thousands of tenant farmers are still waiting for their share of land they can call their own?

Another one is PGMA’s gift project to his congressman son in Bicol at the tune of 3.2 billion pesos pet project. It comprises a wood base electric generator, a bridge, and planting project to provide fuel to the wood base electric generator.

The problem with these projects is that there is insignificant feasability study. Second, it is impractical. Imagine! It will need daily, a fifty fully loaded trucks, full of woods, to operate the electric generator EVERYDAY!

Where would you get about 65 tons of firewoods daily?

Nnnone the less, this crazy government keeps on concocting stupid ideas to fleece the taxpayers of their money.

TWO BILLION AND EIGHT HUNDRED MILLION FOR A PONY SANITARY LANDFILL PROJECT!

There is no such thing as sanitary landfill. Ultimately, the waste as well as the toxic matters will sip down wherein it pollutes the underground water. This is just a gimmick to steal 2.8 billion pesos from the people’s money.

Our government has bags full of tricks to legalize stealing our money. What they do is concoct fantastic ideas (government projects); ultimately these porojects are left unfinish, and in many cases, finish but dismally does not work, and ultimately abandoned. The billions of pesos for these projects gone; Juan de la Cruz bears the brunt of paying these useless projects.

We have Senator Zubiri’s jetropa (alternate bio-fuel) that will cost Juan de la Cruz four billion pesos. Where will he plant thousands and thousands of hectares of Jetropa?

Europe has already abandoned these idea because it runs counter to food production. Does the Senator wants to substitue food for Jetropa? Is the good Senator not aware that thousands of tenant farmers are still waiting for their share of land they can call their own?

Another one is PGMA’s gift project to his congressman son in Bicol at the tune of 3.2 billion pesos pet project. It comprises a wood base electric generator, a bridge, and planting project to provide fuel to the wood base electric generator.

The problem with these projects is that there was no feasability study. Second, it is impractical. Imagine! It will need daily, a fifty fully loaded trucks, full of woods, to operate the electric generator EVERYDAY!

Where would you get about 65 tons of firewoods daily?

None the less, this crazy government keeps on concocting stupid ideas to fleece the taxpayers of their money.

i guess almost everyone in philippine politics have credibility crisis….

gma credibility? INCREDIBLE if she has one!!! you jst count the number of OFWs and that alone spells poverty for a president with an economics degree. kakaHIYA. kakaSUYA.

What about the credibility of these “para sa katotohanan at taong bayan” shouting oppositions? Are all of you sure these bunch of people are saints?

The likes of Erap, Jojo Binay who have made their families glued to juicy government post for generations already and made billions of pesos for their families and supporters.

Broadcast giant ABS-CBN who is pampering the abuses of its sister company Meralco on its electric consumers and so with other Lopez’s IPP companies.

Militant groups like Hyatt 10, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, Black and White group whose intentions are not really for the country but only to power, fortune and a communist-run Philippines.

Are these kinds of groups we like to put into power to run the Philippines?

NO WAY JOSE!

‘Drug testing preventive, not punitive’

An article on the inquirer of the same title cites assertion made by Former Sen. Tito Sotto on the government’s renewed efforts to combat drug trafficking by conducting random testing on students.

Although I would agree with the Senator on it’s noble intentions, the Commission on Human Rights has it’s point by raising the possibility that this might be a violation of child’s privacy.

If this is allowed, I wonder whose next? Laborers? Employees? …Government Employees? Everyone? It just might be so since allowing on one demographic makes it a precedent…

But it’s just not only a privacy issue here. Has the government considered the potential embarrassment the child would face once he or she has been profiled and picked for testing? Let’s face it, all of us were once students ourselves and being randomly picked would surely invite heckling and name calling from fellow school mates. Imagine your sons and daughters being profiled as “addicts” or mukhang addict kasi kaya napili” — How would you feel?

Also, In case this pushes through, statistically, I wonder how many actual students would be found positive? 1 out of 100, 2 out of 100? I maybe wrong, but just imagine the cost of finding out if 1-2% of the student population are users. Yes, 98-99% of the budget spent spent was wasted..How about those out of school youths?

Since we are on the topic of drug testing, let me voice out my opposition to this practice and that to include testings during driver’s license renewals/application. I’m not sure if this anti drug measure against drivers is working. But I have heard of countless times on how some have managed to go around the system and have their licenses renewed.

Finally, Why Is it that whenever there are problems that needed solutions, the people are the first once to suffer. Here are some examples. Instead of passing and enforcing laws on driving under the influence, they result to a PAID mandatory testing to ALL. A gov’t agency needs to computerize, the solution: A computerization FEE (of course paid by the people). And now this…another potential waste of taxpayer money. Why not go after the pusher? Are we trying hard enough? Let’s increase fines & penalties. Let us also increase penalties for those erring in government and its enforcement agencies. Start by jailing corrupt people in government and throwing away the keys. For God’s sake lets do our jobs well. Heck, if i were making laws I’d lower the limit for plunder cases from P75.0M to P1.0M and spend a huge amount of the country’s budget — building jails…

ABS-CBN’Ss paid propagandist radio anchors Faylon and Sanches are always telling its listeners that everyone who defends the administration are beneficiaries to the administration.

LOOK WHOS TALKING! When Meralco was making life hard for the Filipinos, these two mudslinger broadcasters were DEFENDING MERALCO’S ABUSIVE CHARGING OF ELECRTIC BILLS TO ITS CONSUMERS!

Let me remind Sanches that when her father was in the helm of the purchasing dept in the City of Makati……the family made millions of pesos in “UNDER THE TABLE” kickbacks from almost all the Makati City Govt suppliers.

My company should know because we directly gave the commissions to Mr Sanches as he was the Purchasing Chief then of Makati City.

Binay perhaps is tolerating the corrupt ways of Sanches’s father.

SO WHO IS CREDIBLE NOW?

Indeed the Philippines is at its lowest credibility:

World Bank blacklisted government contractors for no reason. And then World bank snubbed congressional hearings.

Its like saying na hindi sila naniniwala na may patutungohan pa ang mga hearings ng gobyerno sa mga ganito.

Lutong macao sa public biddings, isa lang yan sa mga pasikotsikot na naging public knowledge na.

1. Bid is rejected because it is high. Mahal ang presyo. 2. Bid is rejected because it is low. Mahinang quality.

3. May isang scheme pa. Bid is very very low kung may kalaban. Habang ginagawa na ang project, magkaroon ng revision sa plano na mauwi sa mahal sapagkat hindi na dumadaan sa bidding ang mga karagdagan. No wonder a 300M project kumain na ng 1B hindi pa matapustapus.

“[Government] has rights to accept or reject any and all bids”

Nasa patakaran yan. May kasabihan na pinaguusapan na lang ng mga contractors at ng mga kurakot ang mga prohekto. Ang mga bidding naging pormalidad na lang. Pero ang tinutukoy ng World Bank dito ay ang tinatawag nila na costruction Cartels. May magsoshoot ng bola habang nagiiscreen ang iba. Silasila na rin ang maghahatihati nang panalo.

Nagsawa na ang mga matitino sa pagreklamo nito. Ang naging labas nila mga naiinggit lang sila at mga talonan

Tama, walang abnormalya sa mga public construction biddings. Normal na buhay na ng mga Pinoy ang mga gawain diyan.

Tatanggapin na lang kaya natin na walang kakayahan ang gobyerno na labanan ang mga kabaluktotan at linisin ang sarili.

It’s not only about crediblility problem for the Philippines and Filipinos. It looks now that we also have a crisis of no-respect for the Philippines and its people by aliens right in Philippine soil! How’s this:

“Senate Pro Tempore Jose Estrada, chairman of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resource Development, said he would like to see the safety devices provided by the Korean firm to its workers.

“Yung safety devices ng Hanjin para sa ating workers, ‘yun naman talaga ang foremost concern ko [I want to see the safety devices in Hanjin for our workers. That is my main concern),” Estrada said.”

I think that is no different from political grandstanding. We dont earn respect by that once-in-a-blue-moon visit in connection with the matter.

Respect for OUR rules, laws, regulation if we have them in place is done by frequent and serious inspection of work sites. Do we have the laws? Do we have the regular inspections? Why?

24 deaths and the number of recorded accidents by Hanjin, I think, will even qualify them in the Guiness book of world records. And this happened in the Philippines!

“During Tuesday’s hearing on the rising number of reported deaths at the Hanjin Shipyard in Subic Bay Freeport, lawyer Ramon Ogregado of the Subic Bay Support Service Group said the unsafe acts of the workers caused their deaths and injuries.”

In U.S. terrritory I’m sure Atty. Ramon Ogregado would be told to tell it to the marines. Some workers can be stupid thats why there are safety officers to see stupid people dont kill themselves, or to send stupid workers home if they cant follow rules.

Marami tayong matino na abugado bakit siya pa ang nandiyan?

At isa pa, sino ba ang mga Tatay ng mga manggagawa na iyan at ano ang ginagawa nila sa kapakanan ng kanilang mga anak na napabayaan na lang ng Hanjin?

And media should be rid of politics.

“Start by jailing corrupt people in government and throwing away the keys. For God’s sake lets do our jobs well. Heck, if i were making laws I’d lower the limit for plunder cases from P75.0M to P1.0M and spend a huge amount of the country’s budget — building jails…”

Now that reminds me. Looking at the situation of Filipinos today, I remembered walking the street of Payatas where I passed this group of toddlers playing, or should I say quarrelling. I overheard one of them small children said to another

“…mamaya mo tatadyakan kita dyan sa ulo para matauhan ka!”

I thought it was violent but funny language by small children, whoever taught them. But I think sorry will be the day when Filipinos must do like that - line others in the squares and execute them, just to bring back sanity to society. Are we drifting away, or in fact, drifting towards that situation? How do we steer away from what would be a dark day?

Meanwhile ang tanong kung may corruption sa gobyerno o wala na sa hanay ito ng tanong kung may Deyos o wala. Ano sa tinging nyo?

I think next time mangutang tayo hindi problema ito kung malinis ang tingin sa atin ng ating hihiraman.

May patutunguhan ba ang mga pautot na iyan ng Senado? We have the issue since the time of Pres Marcos. what makes us think the situatuion will change instantly, overnight.

Learn the mechanics of corruption! I dont think hindi ito alam ng marami sa ating mambabatas.