Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Stuff below the fold

The PhilInquirer discusses how to get rich as a politician in the Philippines...

What is believable is a moneymaking scam which involves the connivance of national officials with local government units. It is called “downloading” and it involves the transfer of funds from the different departments to provinces and municipalities through facilitators who get between 40 percent and 50 percent of the amount for them and their patrons.

With 40-50 percent already taken off, what usually happens is the projects will never be implemented...

Among the most notorious departments linked to this scam are the Department of Agriculture and its agencies, including the National Irrigation Administration; the Department of Public Works and Highways, through the road right of way settlements and the Road Users Board; and the Department of Agrarian Reform, through the VOS (voluntary offer to sell).

The article is about the Amputuans who massacred their political opponent (and 27 reporters)...but it explains why a certain politician went after his opponent in our town, an action that killed one of our relatives who was a bystander.

Follow the money...

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