Things are looking grim on RP's economy; Power crisis looming

Hmmm... during the 2004 election campaign, GMA and her surrogates claimed na the voters should elect her because she was doing a good job in improving the economy -- even though we were worse off under GMA than we were 3.5 years ago, during Erap's time.

She lied of course, but she wouldn't have gotten away with it without the help of the Mainstream Media like the Inquirer-GMA7 combo and ABS-CBN (VP Noli's station). These media giants aka "gatekeepers of information" help foist the canard that we are on the right track and that the economy is doing very well with "millions of jobs created" (and not explaining that most of it is from the agricultural sector, meaning inflated ang numbers ng jobs created) during GMA's 3 year term.

So now GMA has admitted that our financial situation is in a much more critical condition than previously claimed by her and the admin's media surrogates.

GMA's brilliant solution of course is to raise more taxes.

Uh-huh. Sorry you never mentioned anything about raising our taxes sa campaign pledges mo. Bakit ngayon mo lang sinasabi sa amin yan?

And why would most people support this new tax measures when we saw how this corrupt GMA admin wasted and misused our taxpayer money (via the 2003 re-enacted budget, giving her P100 Billion for discretionary spending) on her presidential candidacy?

Napunta ito sa mga "walking ads", TV ads, bribe money para sa mga pro-GMA local officials at mga talent fees ng mga bayaran na artista.

And what happened to the Philhealth cards na pinapamigay mo sa mga campaign sorties mo? Hindi ko na nakikita ang mga Philhealth commercials na yan. Are the health insurance cards still valid? O ginamit mo lang yan para lokohin ang mga masa voters?

But if they are still valid, then saan natin kukunin ang pambayad para diyan? OH YES, I REMEMBER, TATAASAN PALA NI GMA ANG BUWIS NATIN.

After CODENGO, Telecoms scam, PIATCO, PCSO scam, Jose Pidal, and the recent elections, bakit pa matutuwa ang mga tao sa balitang tax increase kung mapupunta lang ito sa mga kurakot sa Malacanang?

And with a power crisis looming, it's possible na babalik na naman ang 6-12 hour brownouts:

The days of gas rationing, power outages, abbreviated work hours may be making their return soon.

This was hinted at by Energy Secretary Vincent Perez, who was quoted yesterday by the Asian Wall Street Journal (AWSJ) as saying the Philippines may limit the use of private vehicles in a package this week of energy-conservation measures.

Perez, however, refused to comment on these measures, or on his quote in the AWSJ, saying he does not want to preempt President Arroyo, who he said is scheduled to unveil the energy conservation measures.

Siguro gustong lampasan ni GMA si Cory for being the most incompetent Malacanang occupant ever.