Poor excuse EDITORIAL 06/22/2010

Poor excuse

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/22/2010 The incoming president, Noynoy Aquino, rejects the idea of announcing his line-up of Cabinet appointees at this time — save for the earlier ones who had already announced their entry in the Aquino ll Cabinet. Noynoy claimed his reason for not identifying his picks for the Cabinet at this time is that it will be unfair to some four others being considered for the same Cabinet positions to be known since they may be pilloried by the media and others who would want to land the job, too. That is certainly just an excuse — and a bad one at that. What is more likely is that Noynoy has either remained undecided about his choices — which is a sign of indecisiveness — or those he had approached for a job offer may have turned it down, for whatever reason. What, after all, is wrong with the incoming Malacañang tenant making public his choices and alternatives, and having criticisms or praises for those choices he makes? That’s part of politics, and a path toward transparency. And doesn’t Noynoy want the public to know if his Cabinet picks have skeletons in their closets? But it does not appear to matter to Noynoy that some of his appointees to his Cabinet are stained with corruption — the evil he claims he would be slaying. Take the case of his appointed Social Services secretary, Corazon “Dinky” Soliman. The fact that she and her NGOs scammed the Filipino people of P35 billion in their PeaceBonds in 2001 and netted for themselves a cool P1 billion, tax free, with no auditing from the Commission on Audit, certainly does not speak well of his pledge for a corrupt-free government under his stewardship, but protection of his allies.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100622com1.html

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