Extended Halloween
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
There is depth and relevance in the next two days celebration of the Catholic Church’s dogma on the “communion of saints” — namely, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. Evening news about real ghosts is overturning the tables of media ratings away from the regular horror movies and TV shows so characteristic of media and entertainment fare these days of cemeteries and memorial parks.
Top rated is the “ghost family beneficiaries” or the fake beneficiaries of Malacañang’s multibillion-peso cash doleout under the P21 billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, to be managed and disbursed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), under the scam-laden Code-NGO Arroyo handed over to Secretary Dinky Soliman.
It is too ghostly and ghastly for such a noble department that caters to the poor and underprivileged in our society, that requires a “heart,” especially that of a woman and mother, one that has always been a valedictorian compared to other executive departments in corruption rankings, or one that has alway been wracked with so minimal a budget compared to education and the military, to be at the center of much negative focus.
Secretary Dinky Soliman should be made to realize that she is unnecessarily dragging the whole department down the drain, and therefore, should take a leave..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101031com6.html
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