It pays to be in power
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It pays to have a relative as president in Malacañang.
Not only is there a bill being crafted in the House that would circumvent the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, which would benefit the Cojuangco-Aquino owned Hacienda Luisita, but also even a government built for free Luisita “private interchange” is still making oodles of money collecting toll fees from motorists — and with no receipts given, to boot.
The Aquino-Cojuangcos always benefit, that is for sure, and despite Noynoy Aquino’s constant attacks against Gloria Arroyo and her administration, they certainly benefited a lot from her administration, as not only was the hacienda raw land sold to government for right of way road grossly overpriced — which sum was not even divvied up between management and the hacienda farmers, since the whole sum went to the Cojuangco-Aquino hacienda management — but also from that private interchange, paid for by the government, which means the people’s money..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110531com1.html