THE PRESIDENT IS CONTRADICTING HIMSELF

By Bayawanon

The president is making some steps to get rid of some agencies which overlap functions with other bureaus by defacing the same in line with his program of downsizing the bureaucracy. This act of the chief executive of the land is very laudable since the government can economize by way of such acts.

But it is clear that he is contradicting himself because he is promoting FEDERALISM, since this type or system of government bloat the bureaucracy. Imagine if the Philippines would be divided into several regional states, there could be several executive departments, there could be several judicial departments and there could also be several legislative departments.

If the president is really serious in streamlining the government then he must forget FEDERALISM, for such type of governance, promotes gargantuan and gigantic government. It is true that the current Philippine state may gain something out of the present streamlining of bureaus by the Office of the President but the Philippines would lose big time in founding many states out of the current unitary system of governance, since in the creation of those newly federated states, we need a sizable sum of money for the realization of the same.

In connection to this, I support the president in streamlining the present bureaucratic system so that the government would save enough money out of the overlapping of functions of some existing agencies, but I oppose the planned adoption of FEDERALISM for it promotes big government, since big government means BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING.

I hope that the president would reconsider his proposal to shift our system of governance from unitary to federalism for the same may tantamount to a wastage of government money and may also result for the president contradicting himself, he being a sponsor of the streamlining of government bureaucracy and at the same time an advocate of federalism.

In conjunction to this, the president should not just make decisions hastily, for haste makes waste. He must instead thoroughly study matters before deciding since his position is not an ordinary position and his decisions have a big role in making or breaking a nation.