On its face‚ the pork barrel system appears to be a democratic way of apportioning government resources. Inherited from the United States‚ this scheme is supposed to allocate funds equally to every congressional district to be used for the residents’ most urgent needs. And who know the needs of these congressional communities better than the people they elected to represent them? Legislators’ job. True‚ the main job of legislators is to enact laws for the common good‚ not to build roads‚ school
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Pork barrel started in the American era. In the book The Senate 1789-1989: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate‚ former US senator Robert Byrd wrote that the term “pork barrel” refers to the national treasury from “which government officials dip for pork‚ or funds for local projects.”( Robert Byrd. The Senate 1789-1989: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate) And also‚ defined by a Civil Society group in the Philippines‚ PDAF Watch‚ “pork barrel funds are those allocated
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from the way the pork barrel system originated in the Philippines‚ it is easy to see that its path will not be a smooth sailing one. The pork barrel system originated in 1916‚ when Americans used the funds to divide and rule the Philippine Assembly. The Americans used it to appease the Filipinos who wanted the country’s independence. Even from the start‚ it has been a way of buying off people’s support. During Martial Law‚ former President Ferdinand Marcos abolished the pork barrel system in the country
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A study on the abolition of the Pork barrel I. Introduction The issue on the Pork Barrel has been the subject of conversations for quite a period of time. Countless comments‚ startling news reports and interviews were heard and seen by the people of the Philippines. Pork Barrel is the system used in the Philippines to allocate funds coming from the taxpayers’ money for the betterment of the country. The funds are distributed to various sectors
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“Makibaka Wag Magbaboy” The Pork Barrel System in the Philippines Casunuran‚ Ivan Rhey O. De Ocampo‚ John Robert S. Veloso‚ Victor Luis C. III Table of Contents Pork Barrel and its History……………………………………………………………………… 3 Usage of the Pork Barrel………………………………………………………………………… 6 Officials that uses the Pork Barrel……………………………………………………………….. 7 Importance of Pork Barrel………………………………………………………………………. 8 For abolition or continuation………...…………………………………………………………. 10 Conclusions
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Priority Development Assistance Fund scam I. Issues on Problems: The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam‚ also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam‚ is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF‚ popularly called "pork barrel")‚ a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development projects of the Philippine government‚ mostly
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about "abolish pork barrel system" but something seems missing. Has anyone suggested any alternative? But is pork the real root of corruption? Let us say a person is convicted of rape. When asked why he did such crime‚ he would say it is because he found the lady beautiful and tempting. Should everyone go and kill all beautiful women so that rape will end? That logic may sound oversimplified and childish but that is what the call is saying. The controversy on the pork barrel scam sheds light
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Napoles has been alleged of having engineered a PHP 10 billion scam over the past decade by using the pork barrel funds of 5 senators and 23 Congressmen for ghost projects. She was even tagged as the alleged mother of the PHP 10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles’ firm was allegedly tapped for government-funded projects that were later found questionable. The “so-called projects” include the PHP 728 million funds for a fertilizer project for poor farmers. It was alleged that the fund was diverted
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P10-B Pork Barrel Scam: A Reflection The Philippines was completely shaken when the news about the Napoles P10-B pork barrel scam dominated the different forms of media throughout the country during the third quarter of 2013. The Filipinos‚ although lacking knowledge about what the scam was all about‚ were enraged by this news. Demonstrations‚ rallies and other kinds of public display were staged by concerned citizens in condemnation to this distressing report. One of these was the massive demonstration
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and started bombarding it with diverse opinions regarding the alleged Pork Barrel Scam. Arguments float up from the various sectors from the government as well as its constituents. Many institutions and individuals hunger for its abolition to bring corruption into a halt. The mayhem burst out when a certain businesswoman‚ by the name of Janet Lim Napoles‚ was identified as having trapped as much as P10 billion in pork-barrel funds channeled through charged ten spurious non-government organizations
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