To solve the worsening budgetary deficits that push our country deeper into economic collapse and social misery, President Arroyo should aim for bulls’ eye action instead of carrying on a press-release advocacy.

By admitting that corruption in the bureaucracy and administrative inefficiency in the collection of taxes are the two big holes in the fiscal bucket, Mrs. Arroyo would have no other recourse but to plug them. This would require swinging the presidential axe wider on dishonest functionaries like graft suspect Army Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia.

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