As I See It
What we have learned from the pork barrel scandal
By Neal H. Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
9:57 pm | Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
What have we learned so far from the pork barrel scam, the DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program), and the plunder of the Malampaya fund? That the government is very liberal in releasing funds and does not make sure where the money will go; that the Department of Budget and Management distributes millions of pesos as if it were distributing centavos; that the original sin was committed by the budget secretaries, past and present, who treat the people’s money as if it were their own to scatter here and there like so much chicken feed; that it is easy to concoct names for bogus nongovernment organizations and have these accredited by government agencies, and easy as well to invent names for lump-sum appropriations like the DAP, as easy as it is to draw up names for bogus party-list organizations and have these accredited by the Commission on Elections; and that government agencies are given budgets bigger than their needs.
How else explain the huge amount of savings that the DBM accumulated from the savings of different government agencies and turned into Budget Secretary Florencio Abad’s own pork barrel, the DAP?
It is shocking to learn that while the administration pleads “insufficient funds” for its failure to serve the people well, there are billions of pesos in savings with which the DBM “bribes” favored lawmakers in P50-million tranches. The DAP alone has P72 billion. The total lump-sum appropriations of the national government—which are, in reality, also pork barrel allocations—are estimated at almost P1 trillion (yes, trillion).
Abad claims that the DAP is meant to increase the “absorptive capacity” of the government to boost the economy. Translated, it means the government is not spending the people’s money fast enough, so it is being distributed to lawmakers—notorious as big spenders—for them to spend any way they like or, as many suspect, put in their bank accounts. How can that expand the economy?
To think that there are thousands of classrooms needed by students, hundreds of thousands of homes needed by the homeless, many kilometers of roads needed by people in the rural areas but cannot be built because of “lack of funds,” millions of Filipinos who are out of work because there are not enough factories to employ them, and millions of young people who cannot go to college because they have no money for tuition.
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