President Benigno Aquino 3rd was stunned and blew his top yesterday over his – erstwhile? – ally, former Senator Panfilo Lacson’s revelations that the 2015 Budget has a huge component of P424 billion in so-called “lump-sum appropriations.”
These are the kinds of nearly discretionary funds Aquino and his camp could easily use to build up political mercenary support and to siphon off funds into their campaign kitty for 2016.
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