Who will guard the guards themselves?

“Who watches the watchmen?”

“Who will watch the watch-guards?”

It seems nobody is willing to do so or unable to do so!!!

The pork barrel scandal will just die a natural death or swept under the carpet! This is more or less official as per latest report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

This development really upset me. In my mind’s eyes I feel that no one can be trusted in the Government. Everyone is tainted with the whiff of corruption by not doing anything to pursue and progress the investigation into the P10billion pork barrel scandal.

Hello! 10 Billion pesos is 150 Million British pound sterling or 231 Million Dollars!

Can any of the governing people grasp the concept of this amount in terms of new housing for estero dwellers, feeding the starving poor, providing medical care for the sick, schooling the illiterates, cleaning the Pasig River, dental care, improving etc, etc, etc.

Perhaps these people elected are no longer in touch with reality. They are more concerned with what to wear during a senate summit.

Forget bullying China, our enemies are within!!!

Most Filipinos allegedly believe is that the Government is a chamber of horror, where corruption starts at the top. Investigation into the pork barrel will be like Pandora’s Box. All manners of evil doing will be let loose!

To my kapwa Filipinos, you should not let corruption to continue. You all deserve a better government, a government for the people, not a self-serving one.

Many are corrupt and those who are not are too weak and bury their heads in the sand. It is time for us to let them know that enough is more than enough!!!

We want transparency and the enactment of the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT IS LONG OVERDUE! CALLING GRACE POE, SHOW US YOUR METTLE!!!

JXXX
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Senate won’t probe P10-B pork scam

By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The Senate will not use the hearings on the P2.26-trillion national budget for next year to dig into the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam, but Sen. Francis Escudero expects the issue to come up when senators scrutinize allocations for governmental agencies.

“[The] priority is the budget and performance and we intend to pass the budget on time.  But I’m sure the question will come up,” Escudero told the Inquirer when asked if he would take advantage of the budget hearings to look into the alleged channeling of P10 billion in pork to phantom projects through bogus nongovernment organizations (NGOs) over the past 10 years.

Escudero, the chair of the Senate committee on finance that will examine the administration’s national expenditure program for 2014, earlier filed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the scam.

Senate President Franklin Drilon and some other senators, however, disagreed with a Senate probe into the scam because of the involvement in the scandal of at least six senators from both the majority and the minority.

Escudero said he would not ask his colleagues to adopt his resolution for an inquiry into the scam.

“It’s up to them.  They are big enough to decide for themselves what is best.  Not for me to convince them one way or the other. Ultimately, it’s the people who will decide who did or did not do his or her job,” he said.

Escudero said he would leave it to the majority to decide what to do with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), or pork barrel, after the exposure of the corruption that attended its use over the past decade.

Drilon earlier said that the pork barrel could be effectively abolished if Congress did not allocate funds for the PDAF in the national budget.

“I am open to whatever the majority will, in its wisdom, decide.  Personally, I think we can provide stricter rules and mandatory disclosure to prevent abuse,” Escudero said.

In an interview over radio station dwIZ on Friday, Escudero said he wanted the budget to prescribe the use of the PDAF mainly for the poorest areas of the country.

“We will be stricter and I want to remove the alignment of funds to NGOs… that can’t be monitored,” Escudero said.

Escudero said he would also push for stricter transparency measures such as the publication of how the senators and the representatives used their pork.

“Just be transparent and, as they say, hide nothing.  Stand by where you allocated your funds and you should be proud that you were able to help your fellowman.  One shouldn’t hide and that document shouldn’t be kept a secret,” Escudero said.

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