• Office of Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
• 0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137
• Official Website: http://www.edcellagman.com.ph
• 31 May 2011

           The resignation from government of an errant presidential friend like former Director Ernesto Diokno of the Bureau of Corrections will not compensate for the improvident and partisan exoneration of other appointees who have breached the law or committed culpable negligence in the present administration.

           Moreover, the agenda of vindictiveness aggravates the erosion of President Aquino’s popularity and trust ratings, while partisan propaganda cannot cover up for the feeble leadership and absence of economic vision of the Aquino administration.

           Even as all economic indicators are bleak like investors’ and consumers’ confidence, gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, unemployment, business competitiveness and the corruption index, President Aquino gloats over contrived savings and cash surpluses.

           Appropriated funds should not be immobilized in a showcase, but must be released with dispatch and utilized with reasonable alacrity to finance government operations and prime up the economy.

           Forced savings are like drugs locked up in a medicine cabinet while an epidemic rages.