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“For more than an hour, the SONA was filled with a recitation of achievements, some true, many still promises”
The issue is really in the implementation of all these prescribed solutions, which in the last two years, and even when our president was the agriculture secretary, was quite spotty. The farmers federation which is against the recent executive order granting “open sesame” for rice imports via a reduced 15 percent tariff, computed that if the 4P beneficiaries would be given 29 peso rice, the daily loss to government would amount to 220 million pesos, based on NFA’s buying price of palay.But don’t worry, USDA estimates we will import 4.7 million tons of rice this year, far more than the 3 million shortfall the president said is standard.
Those that were implemented were not necessarily new initiatives; most were handed down by the previous two administrations and completed in the current leadership’s term. Worse, pork has been pre-fabricated into the “president’s” budget because the DBM and the Cabinet prefer to talk turkey with powerful solons even before the NEB is submitted to Congress. Then during budget deliberations in both houses and in the bicameral conference committee, the insertions become larger and larger, transferring funds here and there, and into “unprogrammed” allocations.
Maybe because the pushers had been exterminated in the previous government, he he he. But how come the illegal trade continues, and with many policemen back to their involvement in drugs and other crimes?
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