Abolish Congress for 3 Years...Arroyo Lawyer--Philippines (WMW)

[Gloria]

4//The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines Updated 00:59am (Mla time) Oct 08, 2004
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=14206



ABOLISH CONGRESS FOR 3 YEARS, SAVE P67B—ARROYO LAWYER

By Juliet Labog-Javellana, Inquirer News Service

How about abolishing Congress?

This had been suggested before, of course, but not in such great detail.

Yesterday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's election lawyer proposed that the country go "Congress-less" for three years -- from 2007 to 2010 -- to save at least P67.7 billion that could help the country squeeze itself out of financial difficulties.

SNIP

Macalintal proposed the "radical" step of amending the Constitution so that the election of new members of Congress and 12 senators in 2007 would not be held as scheduled.

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[Gloria]

1. This article part of the new WMW, at the DU url (GD):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2464683

[Ediacara]

2. That's only $1.2B

They're in that much of a crunch that they'd get rid of the government to save so "little?"

[arcos]

3. unfuckingbelievable...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[w4rma]

4. That would give Arroyo lots of time to lock in HIS laws without opposition

Hopefully they won't go along with this.

[Judi Lynn]

5. This is bizarre, isn't it?Who would expect to see it in the 21st century?

I thought we were all getting far more civilized and democratic than that! Where WOULD she get this idea? Hmmmmmm.