The proposed 2025 budget of P6.352 trillion is nothing to be shocked about. It reflects the long-standing bias against health and agriculture– which both got hefty declines in allocation– showing that these crucial aspects of Philippine society are apparently not in the radar of our legislators and, perhaps, even those in the executive departments.

Lamentable priorities as budgets for DoH, DA reduced

Last August 14, I came across a story that Sen. Raffy Tulfo (though I am no fan of the brothers) asked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to stop legitimizing “quotas” or rackets for traffic enforcers to do their jobs, calling them instead as “incentives.”

Stop legitimizing quotas for enforcers

Last July 31, I read in Business Mirror the plan of the National Economic and Development Authority to have a name change o Department of Economy, Planning and Development (DepDev) to  help address the issue of linking national plans to the budget and improve evaluation of government projects, according to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan.

NEDA renaming useless

Wealth does not define class and having money does not define a person’s character and attitudes.

What makes a high class person

I have always been a firm admirer of wealthy and influential people who live humble, simple and frugal lives instead of the majority, who with a little bonanza at hand would splurge their fortune on fame, fortune and ostentatious display of material stash.

Warren Buffets’ Gospel of Frugality

I came across this article in Bilyonaryo.com which said that the Philippines and three other Southeast Asian countries have been recognized as top choices for expatriates based on the survey of the InterNations’ Expat Insider.

Weak currency naturally attracts expats, tourists

At the rate humans have encroached on the habitats of wildlife– forcing wild animals to live side by side within the limits designed by humans– half of the wildlife land would be taken over resulting in the disappearance or extinction of 22,374 species.

Human-wildlife overlap seen by 2070

Habits and behaviors change as one transitions from financial struggles to wealth– of course through hardwork and perseverance– and those that have successfully traversed this path have found that abandoning certain ingrained habits from their past was crucial to financial success.

Habits wealthy people abandon after leaving poverty

A twin plague– at the extreme end of each other but bound by a common desire for the right kind of nutritional food– stalks the Filipino consumers. On the one end is the problem of obesity (the result of indulging in the wrong kind of foods) and on the other extreme is the undeniable malnutrition especially of the youth and those in the poverty level (whose incomes are inadequate to access a proper diet).

Twin plagues haunt Pinoy consumers

Big business in the retailing sector just won’t stop demonizing the meteoric expansion of Dali Everyday Grocery of the Hard Discount Philippines Inc., funded up to $25 million by the Asian Development Bank and Switzerland-founded Dali Discount AG up to P4.67 billion.

Big Pinoy firms ganging up on Dali?

The Bare Truth column by OpinYon News columnist, Rose De La Cruz.

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