Last week July 24, 2023, President BongBong Marcos aka BBM has addressed his 2nd Sate of the Nation Address (SONA) which is a yearly address where the President address the updates on the country’s current situation.
If you want to check Marcos’ first SONA and my thoughts on it, you can check out my article here…
Anyhow…
What has happened and what are the things that BBM has addressed this year? Let us see through it…
1. More & More Taxes!
BBM has stated that he asked the congress to support his progressive tax policies as he requested the following:
Mr. Marcos once again asked Congress to support his priority measures, including the excise tax on single-use plastics, value-added tax on digital services, rationalization of the mining fiscal regime, and the motor vehicle user’s charge, as well as the proposed reform of the pension system for military and uniformed personnel (MUP).
The digital taxation is intriguing as the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is planning to make a tax system for digital services/providers specifically international ones such as Google or Amazon. Well let’s hope BBM and co. do not plan to tax the local digital providers as that might increase our local prices and man we already lost plentiful from the COVID lockdowns.
2. Digital Digital Digital!
One of the main talking points that BBM has emphasized is to digitalize further the Philippines. Here are some excerpts from the SONA on it.
Digitalization is the call of today; not the call of the future—but of the present. It is here. It is needed, and it is needed today.
Government must fully embrace digitalization to provide better service to the people, through its vital frontline services and its back-end functions.
Digitalization will support the government’s data-driven and science-based planning and decision-making. It is the greatest, most powerful tool, not just to improve the ease of doing business, but also against many forms of graft and corruption.
Data shows that digitalization, in conjunction with government’s streamlining efforts, has significantly boosted efficiency. Notable examples are in the areas of government payments, company and business registrations, issuance of permits and licenses, loan applications, and revenue collection.
Digitalization in which he includes the digitalization of our money and economy in general
All our digitalization efforts will be linked to our payment systems, whose digital transformation has been accelerating at a remarkable rate.
Digital payments accounted for 42 percent of the total retail payments made in 2022, whether by businesses or individuals or by the government. Its high trajectory is now well-positioned to achieve Bangko Sentral’s target of 50 percent of total retail payments by this year.
The eGov PH app has also been launched. As envisioned, all key government services are to be integrated into this single and centralized mobile app, for the convenience of the general public.
The National ID system will be at the core of this digitally transformed network of government services. It will fundamentally change the lives of each Filipino. At 87% total registration, we are now closer to establishing a complete, accurate, and reliable digital database of our own for the entire population. This has already been integrated into the eGov PH app, and can be now accessed by our citizens.
Yes, the Philippine Gov’t has iniated a Super Digital App YIPPIE
Don’t also forget digital money promotion brought to you by the Philippine Central Bank
It seems as if BBM wants to build a digital panopticon I would say just like where the whole world is heading to when it comes to the digital money/CBDC agenda & all other things digital brought to you by globalist think-tanks like everyone’s favorite the World Economic Forum gang and the central of the central banks: Bank of International Settlements (BIS).
If you want to know more on the CBDC and digital money dystopia in general
My article on globalist agendas and digital currency I made not too long ago
3. Healthcare & Welfare
During the SONA, this is what BBM stated in regards to the state of Philippine Healthcare:
Our healthcare system is undergoing structural changes.
Public health facilities are being increased, both in number and in capability. Last year, more than 3,400 projects were completed. To improve capacity for specialized medical treatment, specialty centers in various fields are being established and integrated into our government hospitals. In the last year, additional 60 specialty centers have been opened to the public.
Just last week, we inspected the site of what will soon be a 5-hectare multi-specialty center in Pampanga, which will specialize in pediatrics, cardiology, kidney, and cancer treatment. [applause]
We are working for a more direct, efficient delivery of services, through integrated primary care providers and networks, in partnership with the LGUs and our partners in the private sector. These shall of course be supported by what is now a better and more efficient PhilHealth.
To address the current shortage of healthcare professionals in our country, and to help us achieve our goal of universal healthcare, we are greatly expanding our medical and nursing education programs. We will push the envelope even further. We are helping nursing graduates hurdle their board exams, so that they will obtain their licenses and join our pool of healthcare professionals.
We have launched convergent programs to address hunger and nutrition-related issues amongst our people, especially the children, like stunting and wasting. Last week, we introduced the pilot Food Stamp Program (FSP), which seeks to supply the nutrition needs of the million most food-poor Filipinos. [applause]
The FSP shall complement our nutrition continuity programs, such as the First 1,000 Days program which ensures nourishment for the first three years of a child’s life. The Supplemental Feeding Program is for our children attending daycare centers. The K-to-6 Program will feed Kindergarten to Grade 6 public school students, who are suffering from wasting and severe malnutrition
Alright let us dissect what has been said here.
First of all BBM promoting universal healthcare is a big red flag. While universal healthcare might sound like a very good thing on paper, with a corrupt healthcare system such as PhilHealth in which has a history of shady corruption and legal issues and on top of this had and actually still have a circular in which whenever a patient is declared with COVID during the “pandemic” and has a PhilHealth insurance, PhilHealth can pay up to P786,000 to the hospital.
Talk about organized crime during a “pandemic” instead of giving folks the proper treatment.
PhilHealth & DOH COVID “pandemic” scandal
Looking at this recent shady actions of PhilHealth especially during the “pandemic”, BBM giving the keys of Universal Healthcare especially to a big and shady healthcare system like PhilHealth is like making Jesse Pinkman of Breaking Bad a head counselor of drug rehabilitation. Yes you can build a big hospital in Pampanga with all the fancy medical equipment, but is quiet on healthcare corruption especially that has been rampant from censorship during COVID to promoting biowarfare in the bivalent “vaccines” in which has ties to the war machine yet we still promote it. The article I wrote earlier this year talks about its biowarfare links and is still being promoted until now.
Bioweaponry on the Filipino people
Now let’s go to food welfare…
With BBM’s administration adopting recently a Food Stamp Program (FSP), they will provide a feeding program kids & students in daycare centers & public schools. It sounds good just like universal health care…But as always the devil is in the details.
“Electric” food credits
The food program seems like it is a trojan horse for the digital agenda that I emphasized earlier in this article and it’s also possible that the poor can be taken advantage being attached to big state welfare credit.
In addition, we have gotten support from Asian Development Bank for this meaning we got more loans and that means more debt in which we have over P14 trillion in. Well I guess we have to rely on the Maharlika Investment Fund in which BBM has not even explained in detail and vaguely in fact in the SONA .
Yay!! MORE DEBT
While there were other topics discussed, these were the key important points to note especially going forward as a nation. A SONA full of flowery words yet empty and going towards a “globohomo” agenda. While there have been mixed reactions on the SONA from what I have heard.
However, a commentary from Global Talk News Radio, a pro-Marcos independent news media, were very frustrated with BBM so far especially in not answering the food crisis and the economic issues from debt to inflation.
That is something if you ask me.
More debt, higher taxes, full-blown digital economy, globohomo agenda, no problems am I right?
What great plans will Marcos do now post-SONA?
Oh right….
P.S. More on the EU x Marcos meet-up soon. Will keep you updated on it.
The Philippines president finally said the Covid nonsense is over.
https://www.rappler.com/nation/marcos-lifts-covid-19-public-health-emergency-july-22-2023/
All prior Orders, Memoranda, and issuances that are effective only during the State of Public Health Emergency shall be deemed withdrawn, revoked, or canceled and shall no longer be in effect,” Marcos said in Proclamation No. 297 which he signed on Friday, July 21, and was made public on Saturday, July 22.
THE REAL FACTS THEY DON'T MENTION
The Philippines president of course never mentioned the 3 year Covid statistics are considerably LOWER than the normal yearly Philippines deaths from Tuberculosis, upper and lower respiratory infections and pneumonia. That total is over 100,000 yearly. Also he did NOT mention the yearly deaths from STARVATION of children ages 0-19. The number #1 cause of their death is STARVATION at over 100 a day! The 3 year total for starvation is over 115,000 . Compared to the 3 year total of Covid at 66,500.
Another interesting Philippines FACT is the yearly deaths from UNKNOWN CAUSES tops all of the above at 150,000!
The Philippines government never did an investigation or showed any concern in years past when 150,000+ people were dying yearly from UNKNOWN CAUSES. You would think that would be a huge RED FLAG! Another surprising statistic is the 3 year total for car accidents and Murders actually surpass the pandemic totals! Anyone can verify these FACTS by visiting the official vital statistics website and search previous year reports.