Monday, October 17, 2011

Fiscal autonomy is the end and not a means?

Fiscal autonomy for the judiciary and the constitutional commissions is not an end in itself but a means that is supposed to help render the best services to the people who are the Boss. When agencies declared unused appropriations for unfilled positions at the end of the year as savings and grant the same to the officials and employees as bonuses and sometimes used it for MOOE, that is an abuse of fiscal autonomy which deprived our people the services that would have been rendered by those government workers who should have been hired but were not! With due respect, all the three branches of our government should never forget that the reference point of all their prerogatives like fiscal autonomy is the rights of the people for good governance and this is the END. Will the prerogatives in performing the respective jobs of the laundry woman, the driver, the cook or the security guard be over and above the good of the house owners? If the answer of some of them is YES, no wonder we Filipinos are poor and suffering and there is a serious and urgent clamor for good governance!

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