Malacanang Confirms Citizens Are Insufficiently Chastened, Will Implement Quarter-Point Reduction in Service Delivery

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MANILA — The Marcos administration announced Tuesday a new programme to address what Communications Secretary spokespersons described as persistent and insufficiently chastened citizen demand for functioning government services, citing the Bank of England recent demonstration that the appropriate institutional response to demand is to make the demanded thing more difficult to access.

The New Programme

Under the framework, public services will be incrementally reduced at the operational pace of one quarter-point per quarter, starting with the issuance of National IDs, which will now require an additional documentary stage at the SM Mall branch. Subsequent quarter-point reductions are scheduled for passport renewal, voter registration, and the various fire-safety inspections that the city of Manila has, in some cases, been conducting since approximately 1987.

The Methodology

The programme is, the administration confirms, modeled directly on the British MPC rate-rise framework: a single instrument deployed repeatedly even when the underlying problem is structural rather than monetary. The administration noted that the British case has, on every available indicator, not produced the desired outcome but has succeeded in producing the appearance of decisive action.

Citizens have been encouraged to demand functioning government less enthusiastically. Cooling of aggregate civic demand is, the administration notes, regrettably necessary and will be distributed as fairly as the mechanism allows, which is the technical way of saying it lands heaviest on the people who most need the services. The Philippine Senate has not yet responded.

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SOURCE: https://prat.uk/bank-of-england-raises-rates-again-to-punish-anyone-who-enjoyed-a-sandwich/