There is another million-man march in the making for the pig and its barrel of killer fat. The president has already declared that there will be no Pork Barrel, as in ‘Read my lips’; no more pork barrel now and in the future. If you look at the people leading the Million-Man March, they are the same people you see repeatedly on television who make it a hobby of making noise against any issue that is making the headlines.
So okay, let’s kill the pig, but how about the poor that draws benefits from it, which reminds me of the biblical story where Prophet Abraham (a.s.) asked God if it is just for the innocents to die with the sinners before the destruction of the city of Sodom.
There was the Pork Barrel, the Malampaya Funds, and now, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). I always believed that the Philippines is a poor country, but wow, I think I am wrong…very wrong. I get dizzy with all these billions being tossed around, but hey, why make so much ado about it if it goes to the people? Take, for instance, the government savings that it put into the DAP that some pathetic politicians are threatening to impeach the president with. First, this money is a government savings which only proved P-Noy’s campaign slogan: “Kung walang kurap; walang mahirap.” Let us be joyful that, unlike previous administrations, it did not end up in secret bank accounts in Switzerland and the Caribbean. Second, P-Noy redistributed the money to different departments to spur the economy, and for the first time, possibly because of that, the economy boomed beyond expectations. Increased government spending is the easiest way to boost the economy. You build roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, government buildings, and lend to the banks to provide capital for business. Thanks to P-Noy, there were 137 billion government savings to do all that. To be called a ‘Tiger-economy’ is no small feat for any president. Only 9% of the government savings went to pork-barrel projects, on the assumption that congressmen know better the needs of their constituents. What is important beyond any politicking is that the money went to development projects that provided jobs and infrastructure benefiting the people, so what’s the fuss? To impeach the president for doing the right thing that no other president ever did in the past is not only idiotic; it’s treason.
Obviously, some senators and congressmen abused their pigs, so let’s hang them and hang them high for animal cruelty.
NK
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