Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares summarizes what is wrong with the approved 2015 budget with the acronym PPP: wrong Policies, wrong Priorities, and huge Pork barrel.
Progressive lawmakers decry railroading of ‘pork-full’ 2015 budget
Tags: 2015 budget
Alcala faces grilling for withholding emergency aid to storm-ravaged farmers
A whopping 68 percent of the Agriculture department’s budget for Yolanda victims were still unreleased, even as the Yolanda-affected areas remain largely unassisted.
Makabayan bloc slams ‘budget blackmail’ by ruling party
“We should have an honest to goodness analysis of the national budget because we owe it to the Filipino people, who want the pork barrel system and lump sums abolished.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
Congress has only ‘power of the coin purse’ due to pork in 2015 budget – former national treasurer
“We will have an election budget filled with lump sums and one that does not adequately address social development.” – Leonor Briones, former national treasurer
No pay hike for government workers in 2015 proposed budget
“They need pay hikes now, not in 2016.” – ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. Antonio Tinio