While the Filipino people are mourning over the death of the former President Corazon Aquino and after the issuance of word of sympathy by President Arroyo, news has it that Arroyo’s entourage had dinner in Le Cirque in one of the expensive French restaurants in Manhattan. The dinner incurred a bill of almost $20,000 or almost one million pesos according to The New York Post on August 7, 2009. What are the list of menus ordered by them? Although the palace issued already a statement that it was a blow-out gift by Representative Martin Romualdez to the couple, it still didn’t seat well among the Filipinos.

I will let this up to you on whether it is appropriate or not for them to have this kind of dinner despite many Filipinos who don’t even have a decent foods on their table. One million can already feed 10 thousand hungry Filipinos, thousands of cheap insurance for those who belong to below-poverty-line families and maybe five classrooms and medicines for those confined in some government hospitals who don’t even have money to buy Paracetamol.

Are they proud of it?