No to pork in the general appropriations act
Iloilo city
August 25, 2014
Ilonggo activists join their voice with counterparts all over the Philippines for a people's initiative to ban pork barrel in the national budget. They signed the petition to the Comelec for people's initiative to abolish the pork barrel and capped their forum by marching from the venue to Plazoleta Gay in downtown Iloilo City.
The pork barrel system is a major cause for underdevelopment of the Philippines which has no money for basic social services like health, education and water but has plenty of it when it comes to corruption, debt repayment, and even infusion to the Bangko Sentral, a bank which does not need taxpayers' infusion, but has been given P30 billion in 2013, for what?
Those are some of the nuggets of thoughts that Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate (Bayan Muna) shared with militants of Iloilo in today's forum launching the "peopple's initiative" to ban the pork barrel and all its derivatives and aliases in the GAAs (general appropriations acts).
The animal is defined by Bayan Muna as a "lump sum" in the national budget whose disbursement (amount, project, beneficiary, manner and time of implementation, etc.) rest on the discretion of a single person. This practice is prone to thievery.
Abnoy and company, facing snowballing popular rage triggered by the pork barrel, floated the plots of "cha-cha"
(charter change), six-year extension, and even no-el (no election), as a way of "extending reforms" which is actually, to save Abnoy and company from jail after their term as the people's wrath mounts, which led to the jailing of his predecessor, the bogus president Goyang Nakatlan.
The forum caps with a rally under the drizzles. Many opted to stay away because they still have to catch the last trip to their homes to as far as Capiz, Aklan and Antique.
While this writer, a senior citizenn almost, opted to risk a few minutes under the drizzle to shoot some pics, before retiring home.
Bwisit nga Franklin Drilon, prince of pork!
August 25, 2014
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| Rep. Zarate (Bayan Muna) rallying support for two campaigns, one, the people's initiative to enact a law banning pork barrel in the national budget and, two, for the impeachment of Pres. Benigno Simon Aquino III> |
Ilonggo activists join their voice with counterparts all over the Philippines for a people's initiative to ban pork barrel in the national budget. They signed the petition to the Comelec for people's initiative to abolish the pork barrel and capped their forum by marching from the venue to Plazoleta Gay in downtown Iloilo City.
The pork barrel system is a major cause for underdevelopment of the Philippines which has no money for basic social services like health, education and water but has plenty of it when it comes to corruption, debt repayment, and even infusion to the Bangko Sentral, a bank which does not need taxpayers' infusion, but has been given P30 billion in 2013, for what?
Those are some of the nuggets of thoughts that Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate (Bayan Muna) shared with militants of Iloilo in today's forum launching the "peopple's initiative" to ban the pork barrel and all its derivatives and aliases in the GAAs (general appropriations acts).
The animal is defined by Bayan Muna as a "lump sum" in the national budget whose disbursement (amount, project, beneficiary, manner and time of implementation, etc.) rest on the discretion of a single person. This practice is prone to thievery.
Abnoy and company, facing snowballing popular rage triggered by the pork barrel, floated the plots of "cha-cha"
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| Makabayan vice president, Siegfred Deduro welcoming participants to the forum. Makabayan is an alliance of progressive party list groups |
(charter change), six-year extension, and even no-el (no election), as a way of "extending reforms" which is actually, to save Abnoy and company from jail after their term as the people's wrath mounts, which led to the jailing of his predecessor, the bogus president Goyang Nakatlan.
The forum caps with a rally under the drizzles. Many opted to stay away because they still have to catch the last trip to their homes to as far as Capiz, Aklan and Antique.
While this writer, a senior citizenn almost, opted to risk a few minutes under the drizzle to shoot some pics, before retiring home.
Bwisit nga Franklin Drilon, prince of pork!
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