Arroyo lectures Aquino on good gov’t, budgeting 10/10/2010

Arroyo lectures Aquino on good gov’t, budgeting

10/10/2010
From one failure to another, the camp of former President Arroyo hit back at President Aquino for incessantly blaming his predecessor for the slow process of reforms in his administration, latest of which was in Aquino’s 100-day report wherein he again recounted the many problems he inherited from the past administration.

Arroyo’s son Ang Galing Pinoy Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo lashed back at Aquino charging him with changing the government for the worse in what could be the strongest denunciation so far of Aquino by a member of the Arroyo clan.

In a text message, Arroyo said Aquino’s statement saying his biggest challenge was to change the old system which had become worse for the last 10 years, lacked substance and concrete basis nor plan for his six-year administration and contained nothing but empty rhetorics.

“I find President Aquino’s statement saying his biggest challenge is to change the old system vague. What system is he referring to? Does changing the old system mean the government is abandoning its social responsibility to the people as manifested in its slashing of the budgets of the DoH (Department of Health), the DepEd (Department of Education), the Ched (Commission on Higher Education), DFA (Department of Foreign.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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