Crying Dinky
Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman being interviewed from out of the country (Singapore?) and reportedly lamenting the brickbats that her proposed P21-billion conditional cash transfer fund has been getting.
Sorry, but we are constrained to say that Soliman’s lachrymose efforts are not working. She apparently wants to portray herself as crying for the “poor†who would not have their fill from the P21 billion she wants to dole out. That tear-jerker of an interview could only be interpreted as a Soliman-ic tantrum of one who was used to getting what she wants from the sitting President.
Soliman apparently wants to portray the critics of her P21-billion dole-out fund as anti-poor. That’s trash. Soliman’s crying bouts should not distract us. It is clear to everyone that she wants to spend P21 billion of our hard-earned money for a dole-out binge that does not have any clear benefit either to the poor or to us who will be made to spend for the money Soliman wants to give away.
Is Soliman crying because her P21 billion give-away fund is being scrutinized and questioned? This is childish. She should realize that what she wants to give away to her “poor†is our money. As such, we have the right to ask how spending our money would benefit the country. How that money is to be given away. By whom, through whom.
Soliman should heed the wisdom of Senate President Enrile who told media that the P21 billion “is the money of the people; none of it belongs to us in governmentâ€. Soliman should not portray herself as the only Filipino whose heart bleeds for the poor in this country. We cry for them too and we want to help alleviate their plight.
We are also willing to have our money spent for them. But it must be done right. And maybe, not by Soliman.
We hope our good senators do not succumb to the apparent emotional manipulation strategy of Soliman. Her crying bouts should not serve as a smokescreen to the many defects apparent in this P21-billion scheme. She has to stand up and face scrutiny. Tears cannot take the place of direct and transparent answers that satisfy all of us who are funding her itch to play Santa Claus to the poor.
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