Shoving VAT to the people’s faces.
From GMA-7 online
Losing senatorial candidate Ralph Recto was appointed on Wednesday as the new director-general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
Radio dzBB’s Nimfa Ravelo reported that Executive Sec. Eduardo Ermita made the announcement during his weekly press briefing. He justified Recto’s appointment saying he is qualified for the job.
“Former Sen. Recto (has been appointed) director-general of NEDA effective immediately… The appointment was signed by the president is already forwarded also to Congress for CA (Commission on Appointments) approval,” Ermita said.
“My golly, he’s qualified naman… I mean he’s an economist for one thing, alam naman ninyo,” Ermita said, when asked why Recto was named for the position.
Recto was the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means and the author of the Expanded Value Added Tax.
A graduate of Commerce from the De La Salle University, Recto has two master’s degrees – one in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and another in Strategic Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.
Incidentally, Recto is also the latest defeated senatorial candidate who ran under the administration’s Team Unity last year to get a government post.
Earlier, the Palace appointed former Sen. Vicente Sotto III to head the Dangerous Drugs Board.
Another defeated administration senatorial candidate, Michael Defensor, was also recently appointed to head a task force handling the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.
There are also talks that other defeated administration senatorial bets will be appointed to top government posts, with Teresa Oreta being eyed as Department of Education secretary and Prospero Pichay Jr as Customs commissioner. There are also reports that Pichay is being considered to head the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
In the briefing, Ermita fended off speculations that Recto’s appointment was a “payback” for losing senatorial candidates of the administration.
“Hindi naman natin mapag-aalis that people will always have something to say about the appointments being made by the President. Every time the President makes a significant appointment, we always get a reaction,” Ermita said.
“What is important there is we recognize that the President is the appointing authority provided for in the Constitution. The President alone will know the qualifications of those people she thinks could help her in governance. And therefore hindi naman gagawa si Presidente ng appointment na hindi makakatulong sa kanya. So let’s give it to the President also,” he added.
Ermita also appealed to critics to hold off criticisms on Recto.
“I’m very sure the President knows the qualification of the former senator. Alam din naman ni former Sen. Recto what is to be expected of him. So let’s just see that now that he will be in the executive branch. Siguro mapag-aralan niya mabuti the kind of actions and measures, policies that he can craft to help the President as a member of the economic team. Let’s observe the conduct of former Sen. Recto given his experience for six years in the Senate,” Ermita said.
The report said that with Recto’s appointment NEDA acting director general Augusto Santos will return to his former post as the agency’s deputy director-general.
Santos occupied the top NEDA post in an acting capacity, replacing former NEDA chief Romulo Neri who was moved to head the Commission of Higher Education and was later appointed as president of the Social Security System (SSS). – Amita Legaspi, GMANews.TV
Gloria’s Gallery of Losers:
Ralph Recto:Mr VAT to NEDA
Tessie Aquino: Dancing Queen to Dept of Ed.
Tito Sotto: Mr Eat Bulaga to Dangerous Drugs
Mike Defensor:Jun Lozada’s “friend” to NAIA task force.
Pichay:green revolution
Mr. e-VAT to Neda. Expect the worst. Lahat ng illigal projects ni Gloria Korap ay ‘approve without thinking’.
NEDA employees, wawa naman kayo…tsinelas na lang ang role ninyo!
Oh my! This is getting to be more and more interesting. So Gloria is really trying to round up the money by putting trusted and reliable subalterns in place, eh?
Mongolian lawmakers walk out of session
7/23/2008, 7:23 a.m. EDT
By GANBAT NAMJIL The Associated Press
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) — Opposition lawmakers walked out of a Mongolian parliamentary session Wednesday before they were to be sworn in, saying they refused to participate because last month’s election was fraudulent.
http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-29/1216808045187170.xml&storylist=topstories
Tito Senator para sa Kagawaran ng Mass Hallucination???
Nakakatakot nga yan! 😛
Nelbar:
Imposible iyan sa Pilipinas. Sa Mongolia, may hiya pa sila. Sa Pilipinas, pakapalan ng mukha! 😛
Nelbar:
Imposible iyan sa Pilipinas. Sa Mongolia, may hiya pa sila. Sa Pilipinas, pakapalan ng mukha! 😛
Ex-senator losers in the last election would accept any position which would allow them the much needed public appearances and perhaps amass enough money to spend in the next election. Don’t these losers know when the game has ended for them?
That’s true MRG. When you are in public office, you are always in the news. But what they don’t know is even if you are known, that doesn’t mean you are liked. Look at Mike Defensor, he was in the news every day then as Gloria’s spokesman and what happened to him last election? Rejected big time. Same with this Recto.
I’m sure they will run again. And they will be rejected again.
But then, they must be laughing all the way to the bank.
Nelbar, with opposition leaders like Chiz Escudero, that will never happen here in the Philippines.
Baka si Ping Lacson at Jamby Madrigal lang. Si Sonny Trillanes pa.
Another show of abuse of power, bad governance, and total disregard of public outcry against her administration, Gloria Arroyo is again showing to the whole world “to hell with you if i appointed a losing senatorial candidate for a very delicate position in the government.” She must be real crazy!!!
It pays to be with the Evil Bitch’s team. Even if you lose in the election, you would be rewarded with a position. Let them enjoy their new appointment…until 2010. Damn!
BTW, what’s Gloria to show asking the Kenny-ng buri mo making comments on what she should and should not say in her SONA? Wow! Truth is I have never heard of any US ambassador doing the same in Japan or they offend the other ambassadors of other major countries having relationship with Japan even when the US may try to give the impression that it is in control of Japanese affairs.
Bilib ka rin sa apparent colonial mentality still in existence in the old country ha. Dapat doon sa isa pang nagudunung-dunungan ambassadress ng America na umuwi na siya sa America, for surely Obama, if he wins the presidency, will kick her out especially when majority of Filipinos will write to him to stop meddling in Philippine affairs as he says he will make a US policy to leave people of countries in the Middle East, and even the Philippines, I guess, to make decisions on issues affecting their counteies on their own, and that Americans will not meddle in their decisions, just support them if they are right and will not adversely affect America and not be good to all peoples of the world.
Dito iyan, you can bet your bottom dollar newspapers here will be flooded with letters to the editor if a US ambassador makes such comments as those uttered by Kenny on the SONA of the midget asking for her removal from her post. Aba abusada din pala ang ambassadress na iyan ha?
Correction, please. This should read: “What Gloria trying to show…
Grizzy:
Aba! noong nakaraang taon eh ang CEO ng Supreme Court na sinasabi ni Miriam na dapat ay katabi raw ni GMA sa SONA?
Ngayon naman ay itong Managing Director ng US Embassy?
Totoo ba iyan, Nelbar? Hindi ba may upuan ang mga diplomatic corps doon sa SONA? Pag pinatabi iyong Managing Director ng US Embassy kay Gloria Dorobo siyempre maiinggit iyong taga UK, Japan, etc. Mga gago talaga! Tignan kung may inabot na sobre para masumbong sa head ng US Senate at US Congress. Laking scandal iyan pag nagkataon!
The GMA government has become an employment agency for her losing candidates. What a shame!
When you lose the election step aside, that means the people don’t want you. This Pandak appointed Recto as head of a powerful organization. What for? Same thing what she did to David (Philippine Ambassador to the U.N.) Out of the million Filipinos, there is no better than the choice of that fake President? She sure know how to irritate the masses.
Saan ba itong University of Asia and the Pacific? Sa Pampanga? At ano ba itong Strategic Business Economics? Si GMA ba ang naging teacher niya?
mga talunan at sip-sip na ang mga naka-upo sa mahahalagang puesto sa Gobyerno….eh si Chavit Singson saan kaya ipupwesto….Baka sa Customs ! pero mas malamang sa PAGCOR.
This is the grandson of the late great Claro M. Recto.
The father is Rafael Recto, loyalista ni Macoy. Now, Ralph the son of Rafael is a loyalist of GMA.
Rafael used to give long-winded illogical justifications about Macoy, which prompted Bono Adaza to state the pun that: “This Recto is not Claro.”
Since Ralph joined the Evil Bitch’s team, his name has been changed to Ralph Rectum.
Si Recto hindi bagay sa NEDA. Mas bagay siya sa NADA. Doon siya mag-oopisina sa VATcave.
Now showing: VATMAN the Dark Knight.
What more can we expect from someone who got her position by subverting the people’s mandate? The appointments of these losers clearly is a slap on our faces, these were politicians who inspite of their machinations, spending so much om their campaigns, were rejected resoundly by the people. They can now gloat and say to us “wala kayong magagawa, we have all the aces!” and maybe “just wait till 2010, you’ll see…”
Gloria Dorobo is in fact insulting the mentality of the Filipinos who did not vote for these losers that she is now appointing to this and that position, and the really thick faced she is placing where she can siphon funds for her attempt to prolong her term with a ChaCha that Panganiban seems to be warning everyone to take care will not happen before 2010 and even after as long as the Arroyo have secured their permanent control of Philippine politics now nd after 2010.
When the losers did not win despite the cheating, that means, Filipinos do not like to see their faces ever again in the Philippine political arena. Kung ina-appoint pa rin sila ni Dorobo, aba e insultong malaki na iyan. Kakapal pa ng mga mukha, lalo na iyong rumored sobra ang sipsip na kamag-anak ni Brenda. It should be stopped and protested by everyone concerned and patriotic Filipinos.
Nakakasawa na ang ginagawa ng ungas. Walong taon nang ginagawa ng ang mga kabalbalang ito. Patigilin na, puede ba?
Kapal din ng mukha ni Recto pag tinanggap niya ang inaalok ni Gloria Dorobo. Hindi ba nahihiya ang pamilya niyan sa ginagawa niya? Sa totoo lang, reading records of his grandfather’s performance na mukhang maingay lang naman, I am not impressed, at hindi naman kataka-takang magkaroon ng inutil ding apo. Filipinos should in fact blame those politicians who have created dynasties running the Philippines like hell since 1946 for what the Philippines have become. Kasama diyan si Claro M. Recto, et al. I can’t understand why Filipinos should idolize them na sa totoo lang wala naman silang ginawang napakinabangan ng Pilipinas. Walang mga foresight sa totoo lang.
Kung may delikadeza itong Recto na ito, hindi niya tatanggapin ang panakip butas na position na inaalok ni Gloria Dorobo. Pero mukhang wala. Just now, I read in Inquirer a blog supposedly written by Recto. Kukulo ang dugo ninyo if you read what he has supposedly written at this blog, http://ralphrecto.com.
Ralph was out of job for a year after his defeat. He worked as Gov. Vilma Santos’ adviser. His ego might have pushed him to beg for a government job.
From http://www.ralphrecto.com
Yikes! here’s more…
http://ralphrecto.com/2007/05/03/5-ways-to-economic-prosperity.aspx
Notice his economic prosperity focuses only on getting money from people, no mention of proper accounting or transparency.
I really hope it was not him who wrote on this blog.
Double taxation pa ang gustong gawin sa mga OFW ha? Buti pa ang US, if Americans are taxed in Japan, they are not taxed by their government. It is because there is a reciprocal agreement between Japan and the US on this taxation thing so that Americans employed by Japanese companies are not double taxed.
Sobrang swapang talaga ng gobyerno ni Gloria Garutay. Highway robbery ang ginagawa sa taumbayan!
Naghihirap na ba si Kuya Vi?
NEDA will not erase his E-VATness. Mas talo siya sa susunod na senatorial election (kung meron) dahil sa dalang kahirapan ng kanyang VAT.
Si Recto hindi bagay sa NEDA. Mas bagay siya sa NADA. Doon siya mag-oopisina sa VATcave. – Tongue
Bwahahahahaha!
Don’t these losers know when the game has ended for them?- MrG
Mana sa among korap Gloria.
They are all employed at the “Kagawaran ng Mass Hallucination”.
CEO ng Supreme Court noon, Managing Director ng US Embassy ngayon… ang sabi ni Miriam na dapat ay katabi raw ni GMA sa SONA. – Nelbar
Hahaha! Ayos na ayos, nelbar.
Reyna sasayaw?
Ang alam ko lang na sirenang sumayaw ay itong si Marian.
At bakit naman sya sasayaw, aber?
Bakit reyna ba sya? …
Si dyesabel na lang.
So we have a new hero – the VATMAN! his superweapon is the rectal jackhammer that affects the victims visual clarity and makes them castratis…
Dito sa Amerika maraming politicians din na inutil. Congress has 8% approval. Karamihan ay Democrats tulad ni Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi at marami pa. Wala din kaming magawa kasi maraming botanti na walang alam kundi mag welfare. Kaya sila Democrats para makaisa sa govierno, puro dole-outs and gusto. Kung manalo itong si Itim seguradong maging third world itong country nang U.S.A. The Democrats are working toward Socialism and what is next to Socialism is Communism. Tapos birahan pa kami nang Nukes nang Iran ay tudas na. Kausapin lang daw ni Itim si ahmadenajab para maaawa sa America. Aywan kong papayag si Ahme. Kasi ang ambition is to be the world power tulad din ni Arroy iyon.
Ha Ha Ha Ha.