Gloria makes sense
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Gloria Arroyo, the Pampanga representative, made a lot of sense in questioning the doleout program of her Social Welfare secretary and now Noynoy’s, Dinky Soliman, costing P21.9 billion, which is being termed as conditional cash transfer (CCT) that is being envisioned as the main government tool to pull out majority of Filipinos from poverty.
Gloria should know about the scheme because it was started during her term. Despite all the hype it got as being effective in reducing poverty and being patterned after the Bolsa Familia in Brazil, the cash transfer program had limited success under Gloria’s administration for the basic reason that the government did not have the resources to see it through.
Gloria’s cash transfer as with Dinky’s CCT, obligates recipients to send their children to school and have them and their mother undergo vaccinations but the program ended up as Gloria’s vote buying scheme in the past elections, which incidentally, is certain to happen in time for the 2013 elections, where many of Noynoy’s anointed are likely to run for elective offices.
Gloria, taking the floor at the House, described Dinky’s CCT as too ambitious and too difficult to implement and made mincemeat of Guimaras Rep. Joaquin Carlos Nava, who was sponsoring the bloated Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) budget that included the CCT.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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