Aquino cabinet raided by Big Business*
How Is This ‘Daang Matuwid’?
The League of Filipino Students views with great concern the announcement of incoming President Noynoy Aquino of prominent personalities of the big business and landed elite, and old government technocrats that had long pursued the policy of limiting the role of government in the delivery of social services and access to basic infrastructure such as electricity, water and petroleum products.
Incoming NEDA Director-General Cayetano Paderanga had fully supported the full liberalization and deregulation of the economy during the Aquino and Ramos administrations that resulted in the further collapse of Philippine agriculture vis-à-vis our South East Asian counterparts.
Current Meralco president Jose “Ping” de Jesus, Maynilad Water Services CEO Rogelio “Babes” L. Singson, Manila Water Co. president Jose Rene D. Almendras all support the full deregulation of water, electricity and oil industries that had resulted in the skyrocketing of water, oil, and electricity prices since the industries’ deregulation during the Cory administration.
Also, Makati Business Club’s Alberto Lim and retained DFA Sec. Alberto Romulo both represent the full opening of the Philippine economy to foreign interests, such as the perfection of planned free trade agreements with the United States.
We posit that the continuation of these economic policies represented by these appointees serve as the clear basis of the continuing poverty of our people in the last nine years of the Arroyo government and might prevent Mr. Aquino from completely delivering on his promises of change in the next six years.
On the other hand, President Aquino chose two heads of private educational institutions to lead the supposed government regulatory on education. Clearly, Bro. Armin Luistro and Dr. Patricia Licuanan would be displaying a serious conflict of interest in the dispensing of their function, especially in view of student demands for the implementation of clear regulatory powers to stay the unrelenting increase of tuition and other fees that had stunted the access of the youth to education.
Except for the appointment of Sec. Leila de Lima in the DOJ, most of the appointments are nothing but disappointments and might detract from the real path to genuine change in lives of our people.
Url: http://www.lfs.ph/2010/06/30/aquino-cabinet-raided-by-big-business/
Incoming NEDA Director-General Cayetano Paderanga had fully supported the full liberalization and deregulation of the economy during the Aquino and Ramos administrations that resulted in the further collapse of Philippine agriculture vis-à-vis our South East Asian counterparts.
Current Meralco president Jose “Ping” de Jesus, Maynilad Water Services CEO Rogelio “Babes” L. Singson, Manila Water Co. president Jose Rene D. Almendras all support the full deregulation of water, electricity and oil industries that had resulted in the skyrocketing of water, oil, and electricity prices since the industries’ deregulation during the Cory administration.
Also, Makati Business Club’s Alberto Lim and retained DFA Sec. Alberto Romulo both represent the full opening of the Philippine economy to foreign interests, such as the perfection of planned free trade agreements with the United States.
We posit that the continuation of these economic policies represented by these appointees serve as the clear basis of the continuing poverty of our people in the last nine years of the Arroyo government and might prevent Mr. Aquino from completely delivering on his promises of change in the next six years.
On the other hand, President Aquino chose two heads of private educational institutions to lead the supposed government regulatory on education. Clearly, Bro. Armin Luistro and Dr. Patricia Licuanan would be displaying a serious conflict of interest in the dispensing of their function, especially in view of student demands for the implementation of clear regulatory powers to stay the unrelenting increase of tuition and other fees that had stunted the access of the youth to education.
Except for the appointment of Sec. Leila de Lima in the DOJ, most of the appointments are nothing but disappointments and might detract from the real path to genuine change in lives of our people.
Url: http://www.lfs.ph/2010/06/30/aquino-cabinet-raided-by-big-business/
