by Peter Paul D. Eting
There
is no doubt that Philippines is better now in some aspects, as I observed
government is very sincere of fighting the corrupt practices in different
agencies, in fact there are many high profile figure were sent to Jail or some
have been removed to their offices, others are forced to resigned from their
position. This is good news for the Filipino people especially to the next generation,
who are anticipating better future and job in their adulthood.
Political
analyst said that corruption can be a practice in any agency of any
organization and it is impossible to stop it, but at least we still have hope,
there are still peo
One
of the trending issue today in the Philippines is the corruption of the
lawmakers, they called it the Priority Development assistance Fund (PDAF) this money is from the tax of people
which is in the hands of the government, for the purpose of development in the
different areas of the Philippines, it covers agriculture, livelihood,
infrastructure projects for the benefits of the common people, the intention is
very good but what makes it problematic, the people who are given the authority
to implement this program was blinded by their personal interest, this private
and public officials are having a manipulation of that money and this money was
only went to the pocket of few individuals, this is violation of the Law and
there is moral accountability to the life of people and the Nation.
The
latest is the collision of the two branches of the government, when the Supreme
Court declared that part Disbursement Accelerated Program (DAP) is
unconstitutional. This DAP is created by the executive branch to have authority
to spend the “savings” of the government for immediate needs of the people in
times of calamities and other unexpected
disasters. The Supreme Court said that the congress has only the authority to
declare budget based on their approval, the executive is the implementing body,
the executive said they did nothing wrong because they use it for good of
people (Yolanda victims), the Supreme Court answered that they are not saying
that spending it is wrong but the way it was done was wrong process. Many
people asked if it is moral to use the money without the approval of the congress.
The executive says it is also moral if we will wait something happen before we
take action during calamity relief operations? Others said that this is another
way of pocketing the money of people? I am grateful to learn from your opinion,
please give your comment.
Questions:
What
do you think of the position of the Executive judiciary branch?
Did
the Supreme Court fail to exercise their moral judgements?
Resources: (From my reading and
watching)
ABS
CBN news TV.
PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER
First of all, I would like to appreciate it if more info and direct link were given here. But anyway, I was one of those who protested against corruption during the "Million People March" last year. I specifically chose the word "corruption" here because that is what I am really against. The PDAF and DAP are not evil laws. However, the misuse of them becomes the act of corruption.
ReplyDeleteThe executive and judiciary branch of our government are facing moral dilemmas. I could not accuse them at once of doing moral judgments. The reason for this is because, if and only if DAP and PDAF are constitutional, and they in their pure nature do not contradict any Scriptural principle (this has to be written for those who would like to include religious discussions), then they are not evils.
I could only accuse both branches of the government of lack of moral judgment if they are only using these issues public to sway people from more crucial issues and if they know exactly what to do constitutionally yet intentionally violated their moral conscience or became apathetic in enforcing righteousness and professionalism in their work, for this matter.
As of this point, I decide to only go this far with my comment on this issue, as posted in this blog.