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Noy under fire over luxury Porsche 01/14/2011

Friday, January 14, 2011

Noy under fire over luxury Porsche

01/14/2011
The claimed “straight path” of President Aquino has led him to the luxurious path of a P4.5-million luxury Porsche sportscar amid a population mired in poverty and a hunger rating of Filipinos going higher under his government along with the tragedy of the flood-stricken and landslide victims who have been rendered homeless.

Not even his claimed prudent management of public funds speaks of the “righteous way, with a President, all decked out in very snazzy German Porsche, speeding it up in a race track.”

Aquino admitted yesterday he had splashed out on a luxury Porsche sportscar, sparking criticism
in a country where a third of the population live on less than a dollar a day.

“It appeared to be out of character. He had campaigned against luxury cars and here he is, buying a Porsche,” Milo Tanchuling, secretary general of the activist group Freedom from Debt Coalition, told Agence France Presse..... MORE

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