Friday, August 23, 2013

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT: don’t abolish the “PORK”

I have always suspected from the very beginning why the freedom of information (FOI) act is not being passed: it is like a criminal passing laws that will look into its criminal activities. With the burning issue of the “Pork Barrel” scum; I have at least proven to myself that my suspicion was right.
Don’t abolish the “Pork Barrel” but pass the Freedom of Information Act. The media will have a field day in the future. They will be the vanguard of the people to make sure that every cent of tax payer’s money especially the IRA goes rightly to where it is supposed to be spent but there is a catch: do we have a media of unquestionable integrity. Do we have enough people in the media to police both the national and local government units? Some of the people in the media will fall to bribery, some to bullets but there are dedicated people out there who are willing to take the risk. I say again; don’t abolish the Pork but pass the Freedom of Information Act. I think with the threat of abolishing the “Pork”; both houses will now pass the bill…it’s a win-win solution. 



Legarda, Sotto turn backs on PDAF, Chiz wants it abolished
August 22, 2013 10:56 pm
by JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA AND LLANESCA T. PANTI 
REPORTERS

TWO senators on Wednesday said they will no longer use their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) even as their colleague filed a bill that will do away with the PDAF for good.
Senators Vicente Sotto 3rd and Loren Legarda said they will not wait for Congress or the President to abolish the PDAF because they have decided not to touch their share of thepork barrel.

“Whether they abolish it or not, I will no longer avail of my PDAF starting next year and thereafter,” Sotto said.

Legarda too said she will forego her PDAF until her term ends in 2019.

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