Currently, the philippine senate and congress is already drafting the budget for 2014 and it’s roughly Php2.3trillion. Yes, that is our country budget and that is made up of all the taxes that everyone paid. That is almost US$57.5B. That is a lot of zeros. Every year, the pork barrel allocates Php200M for EACH senator and Php70M for EACH member of the congress. There are: 24 Senators with 6-year terms maximum of 12-years 288 Members of Congress with 3-year terms maximum of 9-years 1 Senator x Php200M x 6yrs = Php1.2Billion per Senator for his full 6-year term. 1 Congressman x Php 70M x 3yrs = Php210M per Senator for his full 3-year term Because all senators and congressmen are very patriotic and want to serve our country to their maxed out terms, let us do the math again: Php1.2B x 2 = Php2.4B in 12-years pork barrel per senator Php210M x 3 = Php630M in 9-years pork barrel per congressman These are the amount of each senators and congressmen allocated to them in their respective tenures Alvin tama ba !!
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:42:56 +0000
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