Philippine Star: Wasted DAP money could have saved Zamboanga

The stolen DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program) money could have been enough or more than what will be required to rehabilitate Zamboanga City.

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Philippine Star says as a solution, congressmen and the Department of Budget and Management will no longer be taking out DAP money and instead redirect the funds to Zamboanga City. So what Mr. Abad? The original lost DAP money can no longer be recovered.

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How very conscientious this move by those wonderful people indeed. However, even if the originally misplaced DAP funds can no longer be returned by thieving politicians and the master thief of them all, the occupant of the house by the Pasig River, there ought to be sanctions and these sanctions must not be light, like we're treating special mongoloid children with kid gloves. Poverty haunts this country, even more so during this administration. The occurrence of death, illness, starvation, because of the lack of money among the poorest of the poor, is very frequent. You will be shocked at how long the waiting lines of the impoverished are that seek free medical assistance at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office at the Lung Center Annex Building in Quezon City.

It is, as COA Chairman Grace Pulido Tan describes as, kahindik hindik. And yet, too many of the patients being sought assistance for just die because of red tape, charity fund quotas, priority assistance for the children, relatives and friends of Congressmen, Senators, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and high ranking officials with the relatives of the beneficiaries of such behest guarantee payments giving large amounts of cash gifts, delicious food gifts, jewelries, among other bribes to the government Charity organization just to speed the processing of their huge medical benefits.

Despite the DAP, the PDAF and other stolen money, these animal, merciless politicians and bureaucrats still have to compete with the poor in taking out charity medical assistance from PCSO. When ever will their greed and corrupt ways ever stop? Too ruthless, too cruel, too cold. For their own welfare, but possibly for their own coming demise as well.