"And yet, to hear it from the representatives of these groups, it’s as if only the usual traditional politicians and their partners in crime, like Janet Lim-Napoles, had their hands inside the PDAF jar. Bayan Muna’s justification for taking the money? Because it was already in the budget. And the money went to good projects anyway. But, in the light of the widespread public disgust at the pork barrel, these groups were among the first to loudly denounce the system, which is well and good, but with their own participation in it now conveniently left out. And no wonder—if they pleaded good use of their PDAF, they’d be unwittingly aligning themselves with Malacañang, which continues to insist that something good can come out of the discredited pork barrel. The PDAF stench has exposed not just the rotten state of government, but the hypocritical lengths to which those that fed on it—no matter the contrary rhetoric—would go to exculpate themselves. Good thing the people themselves seem to be acutely discerning of the collective guilt present in this issue."
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:55:11 +0000
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