President wannabes, speak out against obscene 2016 budget

UP’s Professor Emeritus of Public Administration Leonor Magtolis Briones, former national treasurer and a Times columnist on leave, heads Social Watch Philippines. It is a vigilant and deeply knowledgeable organization of patriots seriously monitoring how government is being run, specially how people’s money is being used--or abused,

Prof. Briones and her group have explained in detail to audiences of policy makers, public administrators and students of governance and social policymaking the arcane details of national budgets and what could be wrong in them, so that the public may help prevent or arrest abuses.