Aquino gets back at GMA for quizzing ‘Dinky doleouts’
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/15/2010Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo is being told by her successor and former student, President Aquino, to practice “professionalism” after questioning Social Welfare Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman on the proposed P21-billion budget that his government intends to allocate to reinforce the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.
Both Soliman and the CCT are remnants of Arroyo’s nine-year presidency which apparently prompted Aquino to think that his predecessor was taking it personally against him and Soliman who left
her during one of the critical periods of her administration.
Soliman also served as secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under the Arroyo administration.
The CCT project, meanwhile, originated during the Arroyo presidency. based on a proposal by her DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral who patterned it after the successful poverty alleviation programs of other third world countries specifically Brazil..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101015hed5.html
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