Hwag natin kalilimutan ang DAP at ang Pork Barrel na itinago nila sa ibang pangalan! The hated pork barrel is alive and well in the 2015 national budget submitted by Malacañang to Congress. Not only alive, but much bigger—P500 billion no less. The proposed budget has a P500-billion lump-sum appropriation. All lump-sum appropriations are pork funds spent by the President at his whim for anybody and for any purpose he wishes. It is as if these lump-sum appropriations are his own private bank. This violates the exclusive power granted by the Constitution to Congress to appropriate funds for projects. This is PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund) and DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program) in still another disguise. Read more: opinion.inquirer.net/77206/pork-barrel-in-2015-budget#ixzz3H888lp8S Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:05:42 +0000
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