WHY WE ARE BEING DITCHED

August 18, 2009 from the EMAIL BOX

The implementation of the Zero Base Budgeting (ZBB) process was short-lived. It was discarded when the Presidential Appointees of the Dictator Ferdinand Edralin Marcos realized that ZBB made it extremely difficult to bloat their respective budget requests, and hide their "provisions" in the usual accounts.


The Incremental Budgeting (IB) process is at the core of the unrestrained bloating of the budgets in both the National Government and LGU levels.


IF the NEXT President will truly be responsible about government spending, ZBB must be re-installed effective 01 JULY 2010.


It should be expected that there will be loud protestations from the ranks of government employees. They know that their "secrets" in their respective budgets will be out in the open for public scrutiny.


The Budgeting Process is the crucial area where the COMMISSION ON AUDIT (COA) had been remiss all along. This is simply due to the fact that COA is constitutionally independent ONLY in theory. For as long as the power of appointment of COA commissioners shall be exercised by the President of the Philippines, there is no way for any supposed to be constitutionally independent commission to be truly independent.




JM