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MADALAS makita ang mga pangalan ng pulitiko sa ipinagawang waiting sheds, street signs, overpass, barangay hall, at maski sa mga basurahan. Nagdudumilat at malalaki ang letra ng pangalan ng pulitiko sa mga pinagawang proyekto. Pero alam n’yo bang hindi naman pera ng pulitiko ang ipinagpagawa ng mga proyektong iyon? Pera ng taumbayan ang ipinagpagawa niyon kaya walang karapatan ang mga pulitiko na ilagay ang kanilang pangalan doon. Sa buwis na ibinabayad ng taumbayan kinuha ang ipinagpagawa sa mga proyekto kaya hindi dapat angkinin ng pulitiko ang proyekto.

Matagal nang ginagawa ang ganitong praktis ng mga pulitiko. Mas lalong dumadami ang pangalan nila kapag malapit na ang eleksiyon. Epektibo nga naman ang paglalagay ng pangalan sa mga pinagawang proyekto sapagkat laging nakikita ng mga tao. Halim­bawa’y kapag inilagay ang pangalan ng pulitiko sa overpass, tiyak na marami ang makakakita sapagkat dinadaanan ng mga tao. Nakikita rin ng mga naka­sakay sa bus. Nakatatak na tuloy sa isipan ng mga tao ang pangalan ng pulitiko. At presto, pagdating ng eleksiyon, ang pangalan niya ang matatandaan ng botante.


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ang hilas kaayo kanang ambulansya sus dago kaayo pangalan sa mga politiko mura pod ug sila ang nagpalit sa ambulansya di raba.

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thru their efforts kunohay ..... BS!

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Palace: Aquino name in gov’t projects a no-no


By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:36:00 08/06/2010

Filed Under: Government, Benigno Aquino III, Legislation, Inquirer Politics

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Close this MANILA, Philippines—Remember Ginintuang Masaganang Ani, or the GMA farm inputs program of the Department of Agriculture during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?

There won’t be any government program that will bear President Benigno Aquino III’s name or initials during his dispensation, his spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said Thursday.

Lacierda made the statement when asked to comment on a bill sponsored by Sen. Francis Escudero in the Senate seeking to make the practice of politicians appending their names to taxpayer-funded projects a crime.

“President Aquino totally agrees with that. He doesn’t want any project named after him,” Lacierda said. “I encourage all public officials not to foist their names on projects paid for by taxpayers.”

Lacierda said there were actually two programs that government functionaries wanted to name after Mr. Aquino.

“No, I don’t want that,” he quoted the President as saying. But he refused to identify the programs or the government agencies involved.

Aquino posters

Told that huge posters of Mr. Aquino had already been put up all over the metropolis, Lacierda said he would take it up with the officials concerned.

“If he doesn’t like his name being used … I would think he would certainly not be pleased with his picture being bandied about,” Lacierda said.

He pointed out that government projects were funded by the money of taxpayers, who should be the ones recognized, and “not the [project] proponents.”

He said that while “a lot of people would like to show their loyalty to the President, I would encourage them not to use the President’s name in vain.”

Trash bins, too

Escudero’s Senate Bill No. 2187 proposes that the naming of government projects after officials “and other persons whose name or identity may in any manner be associated with [them]” be made unlawful.

He said it had been a practice among Filipino government officials to name projects after themselves.

“You see basic services such as waiting sheds, ambulances and even trash bins tagged with a politician’s name,” the senator said.

“This has got to stop if taxpayers’ money was used to build these [basic services]. It falsely [provides] public officials an inflated sense of accomplishment among their constituency,” he said.

The bill, which exempts projects that may be determined by the National Historical Commission, proposes to punish violators with one-year imprisonment and a fine ranging from P100,000 to P1,000,000.

Escudero said no one should spend public money as if it were theirs for “personal and political vanity, like prematurely campaigning for reelection all year ‘round.”

He added: “Filipinos have entrusted their money to the government by way of taxes; it is the people’s money, and not the public officials.’

“Their offices are merely given the authority, privilege and right to identify, administer, implement, coordinate or propose a government project. Thus, laying personal claim to it should be deemed criminal.”


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Daghan kaayo ang gitudlo ni GMA kang Noynoy--gitudlo unsay dili angay buhaton.

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surely most, if not all, of our legislators and other government officials have traveled out of the country.  they must have learned much about how some places have either regulated billboards (i.e. from the size, color, distance from the urban area, spaces in-between, etc.) or have banned them outright.  those places do not insult one's senses.  they're a pleasant sight and are psychologically welcoming.

but then, before this good news of a ban on having project billboards carry an official's name, it looked like those officials never thought that their own names and faces were unpleasant billboard sights, so regulating these were beyond them.

are we really, truly, finally entering a new age of proper officialdom?
 

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Yes, the rest will palusot...

  - nawong sa palusotero

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     SO HAPPY TO HEAR THIS!   

      SO HAPPY TO BE BACK, TOO!

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