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Why, oh why? EDITORIAL 04/10/2011

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Why, oh why?

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04/10/2011
Noynoy and his administration cannot just shrug off and innocently ask the public “I wonder what happened?”, after an independent survey showed self-rated poverty and incidence of hunger having reached unseen levels.

In addressing the scraping issue, Noynoy half-sounded like Gloria Arroyo, the difference being only in his denying the data. Noynoy expressed disbelief while Gloria would have likely outrightly presented data taken out of her Enchanted Kingdom to dispute the result of the survey.

For starters, Noynoy should start accounting for the P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT) program under the budget for this year which, if the poll is correct, is not realizing its target of putting food on the table, much less reduce poverty..... MORE

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