It will surpass the campaign kitty of even the wealthiest of the aspiring presidentiables as MAKABAYAN’s allotted budget for the upcoming 2010 election was discovered to be pegged at one billion pesos. For a seemingly patriotic coalition that has just recently surfaced in the country’s political arena and that has ironically bannered an anti-TRAPO stance, the revealed budget of MAKABAYAN would shock even their closest allies as they would all wonder why they were still asked for financial support when MAKABAYAN is in fact capable of sustaining their own electoral campaign.

Said whopping electoral budget was first revealed in a cover story of (name of media practitioner tapped) that was published on (name of broadsheet). According to said report, MAKABAYAN is ready to shell out a total of one billion pesos to specifically finance the expansion of party list groups such Bayan Muna, Gabriela Women’s Party, Anakpawis, Kabataang Pinoy, Act Party List and Courage Party List among the various barangays in the country and to fund the respective senatorial bids of Satur Ocampo, Liza Masa, Rafael Mariano and Teddy Casiño. Apparently said budget is already in the bag even before last year as these were culled from the respective PDAFs of said progressive solons – majority of whom served for three consecutive terms thus explaining the accumulated hefty resources – and as their comrades in the countryside punched in some overtime work to increase their take home “pay” from the various companies and civilians they extorted from.

The document further revealed that MAKABAYAN is allotting a humongous 600 million pesos to easily “guarantee” that its allied party list groups will be given its expected number of votes during the actual canvassing. Would this then mean that they plan to use such funds to pay their way in Congress since they have ironically proclaimed that their poll watchers are all allegedly mere volunteers who would “ensure” that we will have a clean and honest election? We all know that this is not an entirely impossible feat to do considering that we all recognize that cheating or otherwise known in the Tagalog jargon as “dagdag-bawas” is almost always implemented during the counting of ballots. Never mind that the upcoming elections would be automated since the 600 million peso-budget can surely finance such a grand plan and provide to their party list groups the actual number of seats they have initially targeted and even assure that their four progressive senatoriables will all be successfully positioned to their hearts desire.

We should now then empathize with the lowly rebels who are sweating it out in the countryside as they regularly force their way into homes of the already deprived peasants so that they can partake of the already meager resources of these people just so they can eat meals and be able to sustain the armed struggle that their leader in absentia, Jose Maria Sison, has adamantly instructed them to carry out for four long decades. Surely, a billion pesos is more than enough for these rebels to enjoy even once what Sison is now enjoying in The Netherlands – a decent meal and a decent bed.

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