The OFWs in Rome, Italy call on the people to strongly protest the shameless plunder of public funds and recommend its total abolition.
For so long, we have been told that the PDAF or pork barrel is necessary to deliver public service. What has actually happened is that this system has stood as one of the biggest sources of corruption, with public service becoming a mere excuse for plunder.
Aquino seeks to downplay the impact of the PDAF scam, even saying that it is small compared to the scams during the time of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. What he is not saying however is that the scams from the time of Arroyo have persisted even up to the time of Aquino and so far no one has been held accountable. There is continuity and impunity in massive corruption such that Aquino’s claims of ‘daang matuwid’ are exposed as nothing but rhetoric.
Pending investigation, Aquino’s P1 trillion pork in the form of lump sum and unprogrammed funds should be scrapped in the proposed 2014 national budget, or else put to better use through the re-channeling to social services, including direct services and welfare assistance to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), considering the continuous decline in the quality of social services under Aquino’s term.
This is especially more scandalous for OFWs who have been getting a share of less than one percent of aggregate funds in the national budget since 2010. Each OFW only gets roughly P260 per capita spending per fiscal year. Is this injustice against the migrant sector the kind of thanks we get from the government after bringing in $21 billion in OFW remittances?
STOP THE PLUNDER OF PUBLIC FUNDS AND RELEASE THE FUNDS FOR BETTER SOCIAL SERVICES TO THE PHILIPPINE PUBLIC !!!
DELETE AQUINO'S ONE TRILLION PDAF IN 2014 BUDGET !!!
JUNK PORK BARREL !!!
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