TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL THE PIG...

It cannot be denied that the “Pork Barrel” does a lot of good to many poor Filipinos, and of course, a lot of profit to corrupt officials and to some enterprising, evil-minded private individuals who invented bogus NGOs and bogus foundations. You need not be a rocket scientist to see how this kind of racket works; a bogus NGO/Foundation funnels back to the congressman/senator the pork with obviously prearranged agreement on how to share the juicy fat…yuck!

If you can remove the profit that goes to the corrupt and the evil geniuses that invent NGOs and Foundations and retain the “lot of good that goes to the poor,” the pork barrel fund will have served its purpose. It is precisely what the government plans to do. A member of the house recommends to the government their pet projects that will benefit their constituents. The government agencies involved approve/disapprove and implement/deny these projects without a single cent passing through the office of the house member. Abad, in the following piece of news, defends why the President’s Pork should not be abolished. I recommend everyone to read it because I don’t think many of us really understand where the president’s pork goes. 

Abad defends retention of President’s pork | Inquirer News:

Abad defends retention of President’s pork

By Julliane Love De Jesus
INQUIRER.net

The budget chief backed the lump sum nature of the presidential pork, saying it is needed to allow the Palace to respond promptly to “emergency situations.”

Included in the presidential pork funds are:

·         Calamity fund for typhoon victims

·         Contingency fund for overseas Filipino workers affected by unrest abroad

·         Money for emergency response by the police and the military

·         Pension funds

·         Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of LGUs

·         Debt servicing

“It is not practical for the executive branch to go to Congress during an emergency situation to get the appropriate budget that’s why special funds are created in the budget,” he said.

Abad appealed to those “claiming to be experts on the budget” to stop putting the President in bad light by muddling the issue on the abolition of the pork barrel system.

Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/473631/abad-defends-retention-of-presidents-pork#ixzz2csyG4rHe 
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