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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
- October 26, 2021
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Monday, October 25, 2021
- October 25, 2021
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Lacson-Sotto Tandem Readies Two-Pronged Solution to Deal With Pandemic
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- October 25, 2021
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Lacson: Pandemic Underscores Need for Inclusive National Budget
October 25, 2021 - The Covid pandemic and its continuing effects underscore the need to have a national budget that is participatory, consultative, development-oriented and inclusive, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson said Monday.
Lacson, addressing the "Budget Serye 2021" of Social Watch Philippines, said the budget is the most important tool to address social, economic and political problems, which are magnified by the pandemic.
"The national budget is the government's most important tool in achieving its goals, especially in the midst of an unprecedented health crisis when all our social, economic and political problems have magnified into massive scale," he said.
"More than ever, we must demand for a national budget that is participatory, consultative, development-oriented, and inclusive - one that equalizes opportunities for all and serves the will of our people," he added.
Also, Lacson reiterated his shared commitment with SWP and its Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI), to promote citizens' active participation in crafting the national budget.
Lacson has earned a reputation as the watchdog of the national budget, flagging and pushing for the removal of dubious and useless appropriations (a.k.a. pork barrel) from the yearly budget bill.
In August, he resigned as Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, and as Chairman of the panel's Subcommittee C, so he can focus on scrutinizing the P5.024-trillion budget for 2022, as well as to address the advent of red flags raised by the Commission on Audit in its audit reports of several agencies.
On the other hand, Lacson has pushed for budget reform by crafting bills such as the Budget Reform Advocacy for Village Empowerment (BRAVE), which ensures resources for local development projects by downloading funds to the local government units.
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- October 25, 2021
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- October 25, 2021
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GALIT AKO SA CORRUPT AT KRIMEN-SEN PING LACSON
- October 25, 2021
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- October 25, 2021
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Pormal na tinanggap ito ni Lacson nang ipinresenta nila ito sa kanyang policy team noong unang linggo ng Oktubre.
Ang kanilang panukala na "Health Agenda 2022 and Beyond," ay produkto ng pinagsama-samang karanasan nina Cabral, Hartigan-Go, at Padilla sa sektor ng kalusugan at pagtatrabaho sa gobyerno. Hinanda ito bilang gabay sa mga interesadong presidential candidates sa kanilang pagbuo ng polisiyang pang-kalusugan.
Para kay Padilla na kasama sa senatorial slate ng Partido Reporma na pinamumunuan ni Lacson, ang usapang kalusugan ay hindi dapat napupulitika.
Si Padilla at ang dalawa pang nag-akda ng naturang agenda ay umaasa na ang susunod na magiging Pangulo ay magkakaroon ng mas maayos na polisiya para sa kalusugan ng mamamayan.
Kasama rin sa kanilang grupo ang mga nakaraan at kasalukuyang health officials at miyembro ng academe.
Siniguro naman ni Lacson na masusi nilang pag-aaralan ang health agenda bilang gabay sa mga polisiya at programa ng gobyerno, kabilang na ang mas epektibong pag responde ng bansa sa Covid-19 at pangmatagalang plano para maisaayos ang sitwasyon ng healthcare sa Pilipinas simula 2022 at sa mga susunod pang taon.
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- October 25, 2021
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Lacson Health Agenda Gets a Boost from Senior Govt Health Officials
Sunday, October 24, 2021
- October 24, 2021
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‘Let’s not overregulate’: Lacson wants less gov’t intervention in COVID vaccination drive
“Ang daming pahirap. Ang isang solution is less government intervention particular na kung paano ita-trato ang ating private sector, business sector. Huwag tayo mag-overregulate kasi diyan tayo mahihirapan sa pagbangon ng ating ekonomiya,” Lacson said in a Facebook Live town hall with residents of Antipolo City’s second district.
(There are too many hurdles. One solution is less government intervention, particularly how we deal with the private and business sectors. Let us not overregulate because that’s slowing down our economic recovery.)
Lacson also reiterated his pitch for good governance as a solution to what he said is the problem of bad governance in the country.
He urged voters, too, to look beyond personalities and gimmick, and choose candidates based on their competence, experience, loyalty to public service, and solutions to address problems.
Lacson said he and his running mate, Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, share common positions in addressing the drug problem through rehabilitation, shunning corruption, and empowering local governments through budget reform.
- October 24, 2021
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Kleptocracy, according to Wikipedia, “is a government whose corrupt leaders use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.”
From Dec. 30, 1965, when Ferdinand Marcos became our president, to June 30, 2022, when a new president will have been elected, it will be exactly 56.5 years. This is a dark period of kleptocracy in our history from dictator Marcos to our worst president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
In between Marcos and Duterte, we had Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and Benigno Aquino III, all weak leaders with varying degrees of mediocrity. They all failed to stop thievery in government. In Estrada’s case, he was kicked out from MalacaΓ±ang by Edsa People Power Revolution 2 because of brazen plunder involving $78 million to $80 million.
If we are suffering now, it is mainly because of the unabated corruption in our government caused by the insatiable greed of our government officials. We now know that even the money for the COVID-19 pandemic was channeled to Pharmally, whose owners are more loved by President Duterte than the 110 million suffering Filipinos.
We can end our country’s 56.5 years of kleptocracy by electing one of the two most qualified presidential candidates, Sen. Ping Lacson or Vice President Leni Robredo. Either one of them can minimize, if not totally eradicate, corruption in government.
With all due respect to the rest of the 97 presidential candidates, I would like to humbly advise them to withdraw from the presidential race and help campaign for Senator Ping or VP Leni instead. It is a great sacrifice on their part, but it would be for the good of our country and all of us, especially the future generations.
Instead of running for president, my unsolicited advice for former senator Bongbong Marcos is to apologize to the Filipino people on behalf of his father who “embezzled $5 billion to $10 billion” from 1972 to 1986, according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2004. Then, he must return the money and other properties that belong to the government.
These two actions would somehow assuage the pent-up emotions of people, especially the victims of martial law. They would also lessen the guilty feelings of the Marcoses, even as they remain in complete denial to this day.
Should Bongbong Marcos refuse to withdraw his candidacy for president, let’s give him zero vote in our respective precincts. The son of the dictator and the direct heir and beneficiary of the Marcos loot does not deserve to be our president. If the Marcoses were in another country, some members of the family would have been languishing in jail, or all of them could have been killed by an angry mob during the 1986 revolution.
But we are in the Philippines where most of our elected leaders and decision-makers are suckers for tyrants. In addition, our misplaced kindness is also the injustice that oppresses us.
Again, let us stop kleptocracy by voting Senator Ping or VP Leni for president in May 2022. And let us all pray to our God in heaven for this to become a reality, so that we could end our miseries and sufferings as a people.
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Hector Tarrazona is a 1968 PMA graduate, a member of MDM batch 1991 and scholar of AIM, and a jet fighter pilot. He was No. 3 in the hit list of MalacaΓ±ang in 1985-86 as an original member of RAM’s 11-man ad hoc steering committee. As the most senior officer left in Fernando Air Base, Lipa City, he stopped its officers and men from joining the 1989 coup attempt that almost toppled the government of President Corazon Aquino.
- October 24, 2021
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Lacson: Mayor Bistek a Revelation, Deserves Senate Seat
October 24, 2021 - Former Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista is a revelation who deserves a Senate seat.
Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson stressed this late Saturday after hearing Bautista speak on the need to empower local government units (LGUs) to deal with disasters and other problems.
"Mayor Herbert 'Bistek' Bautista was a revelation in our regular 'Online Kumustahan' with the great people of Antipolo City this afternoon. Hearing him speak for the first time is one great opportunity for me to know the man better. He deserves to be in the Senate," Lacson said on his Twitter account.
Bautista is one of the senatorial bets of the Lacson-Sotto tandem who joined the regular "Online Kumustahan" in Antipolo City. He is running under the Nationalist People's Coalition which Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III chairs. Also joining yesterday’s virtual rally were Dr. Minguita Padilla and Paolo Capino under Partido Reporma, which Lacson chairs.
At the "Online Kumustahan," Bautista stressed that Lacson's advocacy to empower LGUs is at no time more needed than now, during the time of disasters and the Covid pandemic.
"Nasa isip niya yung kagalingan ng mga local governments. Alam na alam niya na ang mga lokal na pamahalaan ay may mga pangangailangan. Alam na alam niya na ang mga lokal na pamahalaan ay mga kagalingan naman. Yung mga tao diyan, yung mga nasa departments, magagaling yan, mga equipped yan. Yung mga mayor, vice mayor, konsehal, barangay officials ay may mga kanya-kanyang kakayahan nguni't may kakulangan sa pondo (Lacson believes in local governments and their ability to address their own needs and priorities, so long as they are properly equipped with enough funds)," Bautista, who served as Quezon City mayor, said at the "Online Kumustahan" with residents of Antipolo City's second district.
The former mayor said empowering LGUs will be especially useful now that the country is dealing not just with the Covid pandemic but also with disasters from typhoons.
Bautista, who studied at the University of the Philippines- NCPAG and National Defense College of the Philippines, also cited his experience as mayor where anticipation and planning are key.
"Sa pagsasaayos ng pondo o ang tinatawag na ni President Lacson na budget reforms ay bababa po yan hanggang sa barangay para yung pagtugon sa mga pangangailangan po talaga ng mga barangay, kung ano man yung nagiging suliranin nila sa kanilang mga lugar (With budget reforms, much-needed funds will go down to the local governments to address their needs and priorities)," he said.
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