Disappointment and reset

subtext of persecuting personali concrete steps towards the national vision he laid out when he ran for president. Time is running out because after another year of this governance crap, the pull of the mid-term election will release plays that will confuse the average Juan will all sorts of BS.

Empower regional governance now

change, must happen so that a chance at unity towards a better say that empowering regional governance now through executive fiat is a much better call than to threaten a “revolutionary government for the remainder open genuine debate, rather, it engenders dissent, fear, anger, hopelessness, etc. and ultimately opposition based on personalities who said this or that, not the about to move forward for the is not only unnecessary, but it legacy of systemic change.

The proposal therefore to improve governance now is to empower the existing regional development councils and transform them into It will be recalled that such bodies and authorities are already included in Article X, Section 14 of the Constitution. (The President shall provide for regional development councils or other similar bodies composed of heads of departments and other gov from non-governmental organizations within the regions for purposes of administrative decentralization to strengthen the autonomy of the units therein and to accelerate the economic and social growth and development of the units in the region.)

- manage the central government functions that have not been devolved to the local government units supervise the faithful implementation of all laws that should see the national government - - ment, particularly if the desire is to unleash human potential.

Thus, national policy direction on economic development, environmental and natural resources, - tion and culture, justice, etc. will be set by the national government through the various Cabinet secretaries and the President, but the translation to regional and local action plans and budgets will be done by the regional develop the transformation of toothless nation-building with real budgets and power is something that can be legally done by presidential executive order without need for legislation as the constitutional language is such that it is self dynasty provision).

What RDAs can manage

In short, it is proposed that authorization to manage, on its behalf the following functions: districts in the region, strictly enforce people’s participation and the E-commerce Law by having supervise the PNP units in the and local land use and sustainable directly supervise the regional line agency directors to ensure support

Imagine the Filipino potential that will be unleashed when regional line agency functions, talents and budgets are now programmed by the regional development actors and aligning these budgets with the budgets of the programmed from regional bud better aligned with regional development and at the same time

A typical regional development council has a membership 75 percent from the government, which - ernors, mayors of chartered cities 25 percent from the private sector,

- any one or two existing political dynasts of component cities and provinces as they would be greatly outnumbered and none of the power handles ( police, control over budgets) will be under their discretion. In fact, on the contrary, these local warlords will see their powers clipped dramatically, allowing more rational develop sub-regional level.

percent of the total government budget is spent by the regional the spending is dictated by the national and not the component regional local governments. For that huge amount of money and democratize it and at the same money. This alone can dramatically change the direction and tone of political discourse nationally and in each of the 17 regions