Asinine loyalty

“If you want loyalty, buy a dog—not a politician.”

This political advice rings clearly amid the twists and turns of the wrongly named Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) of the Aquino administration. Renato Reyes Jr., sec-gen of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, for instance, made a perfect description of the DAP when he said, as reported by The Manila Times, “it was used to channel funds to buy politicians’ loyalty to the administration.”