A Study on the Abolition of the Pork Barrel
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 for soft projects such as educational scholarships and livelihood programs as well as for hard projects like the widening of roads and building of bridges. PDAF also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund on the other hand is an incarnation of the Pork Barrel. The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam that took more than 10 billion pesos of the taxpayers’ money boomed sometime on July 2013 which is believed to have been masterminded by the now infamous Janet Lim Napoles led to the abolition of the pork barrel system in the Philippines.
According to Monsod (2013), the pork barrel system in the Philippines is an institutionalized corruption and a grand conspiracy to steal the taxpayers’ money that continues to flourish in spite of the fact that its costs are much greater than its benefits.
This study states the ideas and opinions of some professionals regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel in the Philippines.
Surveys in the form of questionnaires were distributed to five professionals from different fields of work to answer and give their ideas and opinions regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel system in the Philippines.
II. Body
This part of the study will discuss the ideas and opinions of the five professionals from different fields of work regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel system in the Philippines.
One hundred percent of the people who answered the
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 for soft projects such as educational scholarships and livelihood programs as well as for hard projects like the widening of roads and building of bridges. PDAF also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund on the other hand is an incarnation of the Pork Barrel. The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam that took more than 10 billion pesos of the taxpayers’ money boomed sometime on July 2013 which is believed to have been masterminded by the now infamous Janet Lim Napoles led to the abolition of the pork barrel system in the Philippines.
According to Monsod (2013), the pork barrel system in the Philippines is an institutionalized corruption and a grand conspiracy to steal the taxpayers’ money that continues to flourish in spite of the fact that its costs are much greater than its benefits.
This study states the ideas and opinions of some professionals regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel in the Philippines.
Surveys in the form of questionnaires were distributed to five professionals from different fields of work to answer and give their ideas and opinions regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel system in the Philippines.
II. Body
This part of the study will discuss the ideas and opinions of the five professionals from different fields of work regarding the abolition of the Pork Barrel system in the Philippines.
One hundred percent of the people who answered the
References: Inquirer News (2013) Timeline: PDAF and Napoles. Retrieved from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/531557/timeline-pdaf-and-napoles Monsod, S.C. (2013). Pork Barrel: costs and benefits. Retrieved from http://opinion.inquirer.net/56945/pork-barrel-costs-and-benefits Tamayo, A.M. (2011). Philippine Democracy Online. Pork Barrel, Philippine Politics and the Economy. Retrieved from http://philippine-democracy.blogspot.com/2011/07/pork-barrel-and-philippine- politics-and.html