Government out to fool the public with a so-called stimulus package
It has been almost two months since the last time I wrote for my blog. The Christmas and New Year celebrations, and the extended holiday period thereafter, seemed to have held me and I have not found the time to write in these past few weeks.
Now there is all this talk about a government stimulus package. Remember folks that even in the early months of the financial crisis during October and Novermber last year, the Palace-dominated House of Representatives has already been deliberating the budget for the fiscal year 2009. The President’s allies railroaded the process without even putting into account the core issue of the crisis which is about to hit the country this year. Malacanang and Congress were so confident that the country would not be hit hard despite the rest of the world were already moving to a direction in preparation for a tumultous 2009.
It is amazing, therefore, that our leaders are jumping into the stimulus bandwagon virtually telling the public they had it all figured out. Conservative senators were even apalled when the President declared to the public they had a multibillion peso stimulus package in store when in fact no one mentioned about this in the halls of Congress when the budget was being debated.
Iraqi Shoe Thrower Hogs the Headlines
Somebody should congratulate US President George W. Bush for his quick reflexes in ducking two shoes hurled at him during a press conference in Iraq.
The assailant, an Iraqi TV reporter named Muntadhar al-Zeidi, tried to hit Bush with his shoes, but missed on both occassions. Nobody was quite sure what triggered al-Zeidi (not to be confused with al-Qaeda), but reports said that disdain over the US occupation of Iraq prompted the journalist to fire the leather missiles.
