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Taxes: By The People, For The People
Am I right? No doubt that recession is already in the Philippines. I can still remember the video footage I saw in the news about VAT, people rallying with streamers against VAT.
How about the local governments? I wonder if they’re affected of global financial crisis when most lower class families continues to struggle on their daily lives looking for food to eat. How about the small businesses? Every year, taxes continue to increased. I guess, its not enough but the councilors continue to author “money generating” city ordinances, special permits and penalties that businesses will shoulder. In the long run, small businesses will be gone eventually. The worst part is… when time comes and US recovered from global financial crisis, Philippines will be left behind.
Taxes paid by the people should be felt by the people. I smell election already.
No Classes On People Power Anniversary
It was announced that there will be no classes in all levels nationwide on February 23, 2009, Monday in celebration of People Power anniversary. The exact anniversary is February 25 , a Wednesday… do you think people will celebrate the anniversary on Monday? I don’t agree to R.A. 9492 (economic holiday) in this case. Also, it is still a regular working day, only the students don’t have classes.
R.A. 9492 provides that holidays, except those which are religious in nature, moved to the nearest Monday unless otherwise modified by law, order or proclamation.
The way I see it, the announcement is just their way so that they won’t received any negative feedbacks of omitting Edsa Revolution from the Official Non-Working Holidays for this year (Proclamation 1699). Is that so? What will happen to students on Wednesday if rallies is everywhere? With the present corruption and other issues we have now… tsk. tsk. tsk.
Iba Na Ang May Pinagsamahan
The title is taken from famous SMB commercial tagline, “Iba na ang may pinagsamahan” is about friendship.
Attending a high school reunion is exciting, to see the changes in the faces you used to know during high school days, how they’ve been all this time and mingle with them again just like the old days. Most of my batchmates were not here in the Philippines, some settled abroad, some are OFWs… and the others are here.
Its sad to know that some people are using this so-called “excitement” to their advantage. A hidden agenda was exposed to some batchmates, financial issues left questionable and some batchmates don’t want to attend again. No wonder why some attendees of 1st reunion didn’t show up again on the 2nd reunion. We did elected board of directors and no officers yet. Does that mean that they have the right to collect contribution and pledges?
Yes, they organized the first and second reunion and we paid them for their services… unnecessary clowns, hip-hop dancers, streamers, tarpaulins and other expenses. If everything was accounted and acknowledged, where was the financial report?
Php 300 and Php 500 is small amount of money to the happiness we felt when we saw the others but there is such thing as “trust”. They could told us beforehand that they will charge us a certain fee for organizing such reunions. Honestly, I don’t think pancit canton, fried chicken, a glass of iced tea is worth Php 300 per head. Business is business… this is their business but this is our batch, not their batch.
No wonder why some people prefer not to attend the reunions. I doubt if the planned outing/reunion will push through. I will not attend anymore if there was still no officers, no board meeting and everything is not settled.
Last week, I spent time and money to contact the board on their available day for board meeting. When everything is okay, organizers are not available. We already invited them thrice and we received last minute notice of cancellation. I’m getting tired of this sick behaviour.
Be transparent, my dear. We already have the board, please let them settle things. Don’t appoint yourself to a position that you don’t deserve. We will have our election and let the others decide if they will entrust you their hard earned money. FYI, I’m not interested of any position, its just that I heard most of the negative feedbacks.
Holidays In The Philippines 2009
I googled for year 2009 non working holidays in the Philippines in preparation for school vacation. The list below is based on Proclamation 1699 signed in December 24, 2008 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Regular Holidays:
April 6 (Monday) – Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) moved from April 9
April 9-12 (Thursday to Sunday) – Holy Week
May 1 (Friday) – Labor Day
June 12 (Friday) – Independence Day
August 31 (Monday) – National Heroes Day
November 30 (Monday) – Bonifacio Day
December 25 (Friday) – Christmas
December 30 (Wednesday) – Rizal Day
January 1 (Friday) – New Year’s Day
Special Non-Working Days:
August 21 (Friday) – Ninoy Aquino Day
November 1 (Sunday) – All Saints Day
November 2 (Monday) – All Souls Day
December 24 (Thursday) – Christmas Eve
December 31 (Thursday) – New Year’s Eve
Where’s Edsa Revolution from the list? February 25 holiday was omitted from the list. The Edsa People Power Anniversary this year falls on a Wednesday. Last year, I attended Misa Para Sa Katotohanan, I don’t heard any announcement as of this time but I’m planning to hear mass for the celebration.
I wonder if there’s something to celebrate when we are number 1 in most corrupt countries. Or the government is avoiding rallies?I guess, there will be more people now. The hot issue last year was the ZTE-NBN controversy, correct me if I’m wrong but I think issue vanished and another corruption exposed… and another… and another…
Are we there yet?
