Lets Chop Their Pork essays

Let's Chop Their Pork essays Lets Chop Their Pork Last August, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced that our country is in a fiscal crisis. In simpler terms, we are facing financial problems. And it is evident that our government is trying to do something about this. But is it really working? What could be done to really solve this? Or at least lighten up the load regarding monetary problems? One thing our government is trying to do is cutting down Internal Revenue Allotments, better known as IRAs by 30% and honoraria allocated for public leaders and workers (Disaster A8). But what they are trying to do is not going to get us out of our predicament soon. First, what is this IRA and honorarium our government is trying to cut? Internal Revenue Allotments are the funds given to Local Government Units (LGUs) by the National Government as their (the LGUs) part of the National Budget. It is the fund used for Municipal and Local projects such as town plazas, infrastructures, public schools and the like. Honorarium on the other hand, is Public Leaders (or professionals) pay or the fee for the service they provide as defined in the MSN Encarta. And Public Leaders would not allow it, the IRA and honoraria, to be cut as it seems to appear in the development of this proposal. As a matter of fact, Metro Manila mayors have only agreed to freeze their IRA increase for the next two yea rs, not the exact idea of our government. They say that IRA cuts will have adverse effects on the services they would want to provide their constituents (Chavez 8). In addition, IRA is the lifeblood of LGUs and if it would be cut, people in poor provinces and municipalities will suffer according to the League of Governors in the Philippines. They add that they commit to use their IRAs for projects that would provide development and benefits (Maglalang 2). On the part of honoraria cuts, it would be not much of a help too even if we try cutting them ...