By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI Chairperson, Human Rights Committee National Democratic Front of the Philippines A sure sign that the Arroyo regime and its coterie of ?trapos? have really become morally…
Contrary to the Arroyo government's claims of a social payback in exchange for new tax measures, only 17 centavos out of every peso in revenues are allocated in next year's budget for health, education and housing services. In the budget, funding for government hospitals was slashed by 12 percent. By contrast, the Department of National Defense will get thrice as much as the health department.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is not yet off the hook. She may have to face her day of reckoning as a private citizen, probably even before her term ends in 2010.
Who committed the beheading and why did the perpetrators commit such act is a very controversial and sensitive issue that should have been responded to with discretion rather than warmongering. For weeks, it is as if every Muslim has to answer for it.