SANDRO MARCOS (2)

HAYAAN ninyo ituloy namin ang record ni Majority Leader Sandro Marcos sa Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan, o House of Representatives. Sa huling pulong ng LEDAC, o Legislative Executive Advisory Council, binanggit ni Sandro ang mga napipintong pagbabago upang palakasin ang agrikultura at food security. Kasama ang mga amendment sa Rice Tariffication Law, Fisheries Code, at Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund Act Kasama sila bilang mga prayoridad sa gawain ng Kapulungan upang palakasin ang produksyon, patatagin ang merkado, at pangalagaan ang mga magsasaka at mamamayan.

Sa kalusugan, binanggit ni Sandro ang mga nakabinbing reporma sa Universal Health Care Act upang mapalawak pa ang pagbibigay ng kalinga sa mga maysakit. Sa edukasyon, may mga pagbabago sa Classroom-Building Acceleration Program, Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act at Local Government Code hinggil sa special education fund bilang bahagi ng mga prayoridad ng Kapulungan.

Sa social welfare, itinuro ni Sandro ang ga pagbabago sa Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Act at Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino Act bilang mga solusyon ng Kapulungan upang pangalagaan ang pamilyang Filipino na kapos sa kalinga ng gobyerno. Maliban sa agrikultura, kalusugan, at edukasyon, itinuro ni Sandro ang mga nakabinbin panukalang batas mga pagbabago sa Bureau of Immigration, at ang National Land Use Act, ang panukala ng buuin ang Independent People’s Commission, the Presidential Merit Scholarship Program, ang second waste-to-energy bill on the broader regulatory framework, the proposed excise tax on single-use plastics, at Philippine Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Act.

May mga panukalang pagbabago sa Bases Conversion and Development Authority, disaster risk financing insurance, amendment sa Magna Carta for MSMEs, Right to Information bill, at reprogramming ng Seal of Good Local Governance, ang general tax amnesty bill, ang panukalang batas sa online gambling, at masterplan para sa infrastructure at national development.

Kasama rin ang progressive Budgeting for Better and Modernized Governance Act, ang panukala sa antipolitical dynasty, Cybersecurity Act, the Digital Payments Act, ang panukalang batas sa fair use of social media, artificial intelligence, and internet technology in elections, at Magna Carta for Barangays. Mayroon rin panukala sa pagbabago ng Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Law, Biofuels Act, at alisin ang waive bank secrecy a mga lingkod bayan, at mga amendment sa Anti-Money Laundering Act, the Citizen Access and Disclosure of Expenditures for National Accountability (CADENA) Act, at Party-list System Reform Act. (END)

Binigdiin ni Sandro Marcos ang panukalang batas na alisin ang travel tax sa Presidential Decree No. 1183 at Tourism Act of 2009. Pahirap ito sa mga mamamayan, aniya. Pinapatawan ang bawat manlalakbay ng ?2,700 sa first-class at P1,620 for economy-class passenger.

“Removing it sends a clear signal that the government is serious about mobility, recovery, and competitiveness,” aniya. “We are prepared to do our part to ensure these priority bills move without delay,” aniya.

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PAMINSAN-MINSAN, mga malalim na kaisipan naman:

“The human race had the wisdom to create science and art; why should it not be capable to create a world of justice, brotherliness and peace? The human race has produced Plato, Homer, Shakespeare, and Hugo, Michelangelo and Beethoven, Pascal and Newton, all these human heroes whose genius is only the contact with the fundamental truths, with the innermost essence of the universe. Why then should the same race not produce those leaders capable of leading it to those forms of communal life which are closest to the lives and the harmony of the universe?” – Leon Blum

“The philosopher Alistair Maclntyre, in After Virtue,’ was among the first in recent times to diagnose the moral paralysis which seems to have beset Western thought. From sociology and anthropology we have learned that values and beliefs are a relative affair; from philosophers of science, that scientists are never less to be trusted than when they announce that they have established something with absolute certainty According to Maclntyre, we have sunk into this comfortable relativism— the philosophy of ‘anything goes’—as into a treacherous quagmire, and we are already up to our necks. His message was that those who still believed in rationality (in the difference between truth and falsity, good and evil) had better start looking around for whatever pieces of driftwood they could find with which to pull themselves out.” – Pambungad na salita sa aklat “The Sane Society” ni Erich Fromm