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People won’t buy GMA’s SONA

An activist umbrella group yesterday said President Arroyo will have a hard time “selling” her State of the Nation Address (Sona) to a people reeling from an economic crisis.

“We doubt if her Sona speech could restore public confidence in her administration. The people have consistently rejected her. All the signs indicate that she has to go. She had better step down for the good of the nation,” Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr., in a statement, stressed.

The group also assailed Malacañang for claiming that government would rather do what is right, than what is popular.

“What Malacañang is actually saying is that they are right and everyone else is wrong. They are right on the VAT (value added tax) and everyone else is wrong in asking for its removal. They’re saying they are right on oil deregulation and everyone else is wrong to ask for price regulation,” Reyes noted.

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Panic-struck Palace summons oil firms

Apparently in a fit of panic, the government called yesterday a meeting with oil companies after fuel prices made the biggest jump for diesel, the fuel used by jeepneys and buses, yesterday, a day after a survey showed President Arroyo’s satisfaction rating as the lowest ever for a Philippine president.

Oil companies implemented yesterday the biggest price increase on a string of weekly price hikes undertaken this year with a P3 per liter jump in the cost of diesel.

Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes said yesterday he will meet with heads of local oil companies. Local oil firms have been raising their prices almost weekly, but the latest hike yesterday raised hackles because it came despite a drop in international oil prices.

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Joc joc Bolante tells his tale of woe to US paper

President Arroyo’s former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-joc” Bolante isn’t talking to the Philippine media, but from a news report from the Chicago Tribune, it appears that he prefers telling his tale over his supposed fear of being assassinated if he returns to the Philippines.

The Chicago Tribune, in a July 14 edition, said, from an interview with Bolante, who is currently detained in Kenosha county jail, that the former undersecretary argued that the threats he has been receiving against him are “very real.”

Bolante was quoted as citing dozens of political murders in recent years that, according to US State Department reports on the Philippines, have included judges, journalists and priests.

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Mar Roxas: Who says VAT is only source of revenues?

BY JP LOPEZ - THE government should stop deceiving the public that the 12 percent value-added tax on oil is the only source of funds for its pro-poor programs, Sen. Mar Roxas II said yesterday.

“Are we relying solely on VAT on oil to implement these pro-poor programs and at the same time, to cut the deficit? Are they telling us that this VAT on oil is the be-all, end-all of our collection system?” Roxas asked.

Instead of relying too much on the oil VAT, Roxas said the government should implement efficient tax collection and review its spending program, and re-channel funds from items that are “usually there but actually useless to the people,” to programs aimed towards immediate relief and ensuring food security.

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Safeguard funds, outgoing SSS head calls on members

BY JIMMY CALAPATI - OUTGOING Social Security System president Corazon de la Paz yesterday called on the fund members and public to be vigilant in safeguarding the pension funds but had some kind words for incoming SSS president Romulo Neri.

“I know him for quite some time though I’m not very close and I know him to be very intelligent. He had better knowledge and experience to plan for our country’s future. Neri has what it takes to be a good SSS president,” she said.

But she did say that her resistance to proposals to use SSS funds for programs not defined in the SSS charter may have rubbed people the wrong way.

De la Paz appealed to the public to give Neri a chance to serve the SSS. But she acknowledged it would be hard to erase the public perception on the many controversies that hounded Neri.

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Jeepney, bus fares up P1

BY WENDELL VIGILIA - THE government approved yesterday a P1 increase in jeepney and bus fares, to take effect as early as tomorrow or Friday.

Because of the unabated increase in cost of fuel, the National Economic and Development Authority board led by acting chief Augusto Santos approved the fare hike petition recommended by the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board during the weekly Cabinet meeting with President Arroyo.

The P1 increase means jeepney fare will now be P8.50 for the first four kilometers, with an additional of 25 centavos for each succeeding kilometer.

The LTFRB allowed a 50-centavo provisional fare hike last May 19, which allowed jeepney operators to charge a minimum fare of P8.

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Bishops join call for review of VAT

BY GERARD NAVAL - THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines yesterday called for a review of the government’s economic policies in the light of escalation of prices of oil and basic commodities.

Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, CBCP president, said the poor bear the brunt of high prices.

Asked at a press conference at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati City whether they are looking at repeal of the oil deregulation law, as various sectors have been calling for, Lagdameo said: “Siguro yun ang dapat natin pag-aralan, yung oil deregulation na pinalabas nung una pa. Pero kinakailangan pag-aralan mabuti yan.”

Another policy that should be looked into is the imposition of a 12 percent value added tax on oil products, according to Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo.

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