With the country sinking further, the Philippines must be a cursed nation.
FRONTLINE |
Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Adding more years in the school’s curriculum is the key to winning the battle against poverty, claimed Noynoy Aquino yesterday during a foundation project on education.
Wasn’t the eradication of corruption in government the proclaimed key to winning the battle against poverty, as he kept on claiming during the presidential campaign, with his slogan of “kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap?”
During the budget hearing, where Dinky Soliman obtained a huge P21-billion budget for her Conditional Cash Transfer program, this was being hailed by her and Noynoy, along with his lackeys in Congress, as the solution to the problem of poverty in the country. And take note: Some P4 billion from the P21 billion will be spent on hiring workers for the CCT program.
The military, for an addiitonal 20 percent earmarked for salaries to complete the number of soldiers, only needs some P3.5 billion, yet there is Dinky with a P4-billion budget for CCT hires..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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