Names on relief goods bare pathetic exploiters

Does a name have to appear on packages of relief goods delivered to those who need them the most? Politicians come out so pathetic when they exploit tragedies to advance their political agenda even as disaster victims are dying and starving.

The fact is the victims don’t care whose name is on the bags, they just want to eat and have water to drink and get much-needed medicine. And this is what’s wrong with the Philippines today: Many in position of power, invoking “togetherness” and a sense of “kababayan,” in fact just want to promote their selfish, political interests.

—MAXWELL PASCUAL,

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