INQUIRER.net: UP profs say all pork, not just PDAF, must go

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UP profs say all pork, not just PDAF, must go Sep 8th 2013, 00:46 MANILA, Philippines—Pork by any other name is just as fat and harmful, and it's time to strike it off the menu for good.   This according to two economists from the University of the Philippines (UP) who stressed the need to abolish not only the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF)—more commonly known as the pork barrel—allocated to legislators but the entire system of appropriating funds to lawmakers for abuse-prone local projects.   Abolishing the pork barrel does not end with scrapping the PDAF from the General Appropriations Act (GAA) but with removing the power from senators and congressmen to identify which funds should go to which projects,... Keep on reading: UP profs say all pork, not just PDAF, must go Media files: winnie-monsod.jpg (image/jpeg)

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