Lacson to next PH President: Apply now, suffer later

Senator Ping Lacson has given some tips to the next Philippine President as the 2022 national elections draw near.

Lacson said that the next President will be facing a number of challenges once s/he assumes office.

The senator ran for Presidency in previous elections but lost.

In a Twitter post, Lacson said that among the crucial concerns the next President would have to confront would be the country’s bad economy, the mounting dispute in the West Philippine Sea, arresting the spread of the COVID-19, the national debt, corruption, drugs, peace, and order, among many other critical issues.

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“The next President will deal with the following:

Bad economy
West Philippine Sea
Covid-19
P12T national debt
Corruption, drugs, peace and order
50% increase in IRA
17.7% unemployment rate
30.7% hunger rate
MUP (military and uniformed personnel) Pension (P9.6T seed fund)
Low tax revenue

“Apply now, suffer later,” Lacson tweeted.

The tweet comes after President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that the country’s economy is in bad shape.

Duterte lamented that the Philippines is losing Php2 billion a day due to the restrictions imposed against COVID-19.

“According to the Secretary of Finance, araw araw ngayon hanggang matapos ‘tong COVID, araw araw we are losing P2 billion na pera para sana ‘yun sa mga tao,” Duterte said in a speech on Monday night.

Duterte said that the Filipinos could’ve started earning money but the economy itself prohibits them to do so.

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“The workers, the Filipino workers would have earned that money kung ang ekonomiya natin gumagalaw,” he added.

The National Economic and Development Authority said that Filipinos lost Php1.4 trillion in 2020 due to quarantines.

“Lahat ng bayan ngayon ng buong mundo, bagsak. Talagang bagsak. Tayo, maganda na sana. No’ng hindi dumating ‘yung COVID we were doing fine. Hindi naman very good. We were doing good. Tapos dumating ‘yung COVID. Walang kita,” Duterte said.

The Philippines also recorded a -9.5% gross domestic product last year. The worst since 1947. (TDT)

The next President will deal with the following:

Bad economy
West Philippine Sea
Covid-19
P12T national debt
Corruption, drugs, peace and order
50% increase in IRA
17.7% unemployment rate
30.7% hunger rate
MUP Pension (P9.6T seed fund)
Low tax revenue

Apply now, suffer later.

— PING LACSON (@iampinglacson) February 1, 2021