How do you argue with a man who has already made up his mind?
“We were given an opportunity to bring delayed services to the people using government savings. That is what DAP is.”
This was what President Benigno Simeon Aquino III said during his July 14 national address, wherein he highlighted the benefits that the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) brought.
The DAP, though, had been tagged as the “President’s pork” and has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
But Aquino is having none of that.
In an ANC report, he was quoted as saying, “Walang pananagutan sa batas ang nagpatupad ng kautusan kung ginawa ‘in good faith.’ Sa SC ruling, ipinagpalagay na walang good faith (We don’t have to answer to the law if we did something ‘in good faith.’ The SC ruling, though, assumed there was no good faith).”
Aquino concluded by saying, “Mabuti ang DAP. Tama ang intensyon, tama ang pamamaraan, tama ang resulta (DAP is good. The intention was right, the execustion was right, and the results were right).
Screengrab of a campaign photo
