Charitable with others’ dough
It’s nice that even in the absence of the right to reply, the Inquirer gave sufficient space to Deputy Speaker Giorgidi Aggabao for him to respond to the Aug. 19 report titled “Why Congress won’t act on call for probe.” The facts as stated by Representative Aggabao in his Aug. 27 letter may be all true. However, the Constitution did not establish Congress as or to be an eleemosynary institution.
It was with personal uneasiness that I read the line in his letter which stated that the assistance members of Congress give to the “dirt poor” (or the great unwashed as one writer describes them) is a “lifeline” and hence, it would be a pity to stop the Priority Development Assistance Fund. If we are to be charitable, let’s not use other people’s money.
—EMMANUEL O. SALES,
