Have you ever experienced having a person you trusted to? The person you thought, without any doubt, will never break your trust? The person who gave you assurance that he will serve you honestly and just. It is hard to find a person as same as that, is it not? Government nowadays is nothing different in finding a person whom the people can trust. Trust with their work, trust with their money, and trust with their lives. Approximately 3 million Filipinos are now experiencing a poor living because of what the Philippine Government is doing. Graft here, corruption there, stealing everywhere. One example of it is the pork barrel scandal.
Pork barrel, according to western dictionary, is a government projects or appropriations yielding rich patronage benefits. It is the term which Filipinos used to call their taxes or in Tagalog term "pondo". The government collect taxes of every workers, even the old people who have sari-sari stores as their source of living to have funds for the people including for the hospitals, schools and infrastructures. It has become a law to the Philippine constitution that every citizen must pay his tax. The project has been productive for the past years as the government reached out for the needs of every Filipinos. But lately, the Philippine economy is decreasing that results to poverty. Unfortunately, the primary reason behind it are the people we call our leaders. Recent news said that government leaders are the suspect for the pork barrel scandal.-stealing the funds of the Filipino citizens. Approximately P10 million fund was stolen by some senators, businessmen and public leaders. It shocked many Filipinos as they did expect it coming.
In conclusion, it is sad to know that even though the Philippines is in democratic government, the government, whom the people thought as their leaders, are the ones who made the lives of the Filipinos turned into poverty because of their selfishness and abusive used of their power.
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