Cutting Budget on SUCs

Cutting the budget of the State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) makes it obvious that that the Administration of President Abnoy does not prioritize education. He instead wants to concentrate on giving a band aid solution to the problem of poverty in our country through his CCT program. Yes, it’s a band aid solution because it will never ease or get rid of the poverty in our country. I am very against the CCT program because it encourages the culture of mendicancy. People will not anymore work for their living because they’ll wait for their monthly stipend from the government. Instead of giving large chunks of its budgets on the CCT program, President Abnoy’s government should invest on infrastructure building that could pump up economic activity and create jobs for many.

However, President Abnoy has been underspending that triggered the economic slowdown. If he spent on infrastructure, he could have avoided building the culture of laziness in our society. As the philosophers would say, “Teach man how to fish and you’ll feed him for lifetime”. People should work for their bread and giving them money is not sustainable. There will be a question in the future on where they should get the taxes to sustain the CCT program. Unfortunately, there’s even a glitch in its implementation.

With the current trend of cutting the budgets for the SUCs, don’t be surprised if we have low quality of graduates. Our Universities could not even make it to the Top 100 Universities in the world anymore. The misplaced priorities of the current administration will not help either.

President Abnoy’s CCT program is his political tool to survive. It is his way of bribing the poor people to support his government. The problem with this program is that he’ll alienate the middle and the upper class tax payers. Remember, most of these poor people who are beneficiaries of the CCT programs do not pay taxes. Why reward individuals who do not pay taxes and punish the taxpaying citizens by giving them the burden of additional taxes.