Recipe for corruption
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
It is to his yellow allies that budgets have been increased and in the case of Dinky Soliman’s Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) budget, it is a 100 percent increase.
In other cases, budgets were slashed, and dramatically, yet not too long ago, he spoke of wanting to do justice to all Filipinos, but he slashed the budget for the judiciary — mainly because he is allergic to the Supreme Court owing to the appointment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, instead of his choice, which would have been either Justice Antonio Carpio, or his cousin, Conchita Carpio Morales.
In the case of the Vice President’s budget, this too, was slashed in half, along with his budget for the housing department, part of which went — not surprisingly — to Soliman again. So what does the DSWD have to do with housing?
And oh yes, there too went part of VP Jojo Binay’s housing budget to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), which really should have nothing to do with housing..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101020com2.html
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