Arroyo’s US ‘Food Trip’ Reflects Poor Policies, Arrogance

Arroyo’s US ‘Food Trip’ Reflects Poor Policies, Arrogance

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO

MANILA — Fish paste, vegetable leaves, instant noodles. These are the usual food that one would find on the dining table of the Monicario family of Sitio San Isidro, an urban poor community along Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.

These are almost nothing compared to the dinner that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her entourage had at New York City’s Le Cirque Restaurant and Washington DC’s Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, where the dinner tabs amounted to $20,000 and $15,000, respectively.

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