Pork barrel scandal tHE SHOCKING P10 BILLION PORK BARREL SCANDAL HAS OCCUPIED THE PUBLIC ATTENTION IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS SINCE IT FIRST EXPLODED IN MID-jULY. tHE NEWS HAD BEEN COVERED IN BOTH PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA‚ AS WELL AS IN SOCIAL MEDIA VIA THE INTERNET. iT IS INTERESTING TO LOOK BACK AT WHAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST AND RELATE THEM WITH THE PRESENT AS THE EVENTS UNFOLD. lET US USE tHE mILLION pEOPLE mARCH HELD AT THE lUNETA(rIZAL pARK) HELD ON AUG. 26‚ 2013 AS A REFERENCE DATE. tHE
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“Negrenses and Bacoleños urged: Join No to Pork Barrel Rally” By: Mark Jason M. Berio Over thousands of angry Filipinos marched through out the different cities in the Philippines to demand for the abolition of Pork Barrel‚ the misused fund for legislators’ pet projects. The biggest protest due to official corruption was aimed to Benigno Aquino’s administration. Negrenses and Bacoleños urged to join the rally for the total abolition of the “pork barrel” to manifest their continued protest for
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REACTION PAPER Submitted by: Cortez‚ Diana C. BSN-III NICOLET “THIS IS MY COUNTRY” I am an average teenager‚ but I am aware of what is happening in the country. One of the big problem that our country encounters today is CORRUPTION. “Pork Barrel” is the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative’s district. The usage originated in American English. In election campaigns‚ the term is used in derogatory fashion
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graft-tainted pork barrel fund in the largest demonstration since President Benigno Aquino was elected in 2010 on a platform to fight corruption. Calls for protest began circulating on Facebook and Twitter about two weeks ago after a series of exposés by the Philippine Daily Inquirer about a mammoth scam involving Congress’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). The PDAF is money allocated for lawmakers to be used in their pet development projects. Critics charge that they fund “pork barrel” projects
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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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which commonly called the "pork barrel" has been the subject of much public criticism in which following exposes on abuses by the members of Congress on use of the fund in 1996 and 2013. As the number one subject of the critics this days‚ we can not avoid that people will spar about removing the pork barrel. But in your opinion should the government abolish it or retain it????? “The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF)‚ better known as “Pork Barrel”‚ is a regular allocation
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THE HISTORY OF THE PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT ASSISTAANCE FUND(PDAF)/PORK BARREL • The term pork barrel politics usually refers to spending which is intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support‚ either in the form of campaign contributions or votes. In the popular 1863 story "The Children of the Public"‚ Edward Everett Hale used the term pork barrel as a homely metaphor for any form of public spending to the citizenry. After the American Civil War‚ however‚
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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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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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