Corruption institutionalized in Bicam’s Budget Act

OKAY, the call to stop the corrupt use of taxpayers’ money by removing lump sum appropriations in the multi-trillion-peso 2015 budget was probably an impossible dream—a “suntok sa buwan” (throwing a punch at the moon) as the vivid Tagalog expression says.  After all, the direct beneficiaries of the pork are the lawmakers themselves, the guys who are passing the law.

But, one would have thought that the matter of redefining “savings” as desired by President BS Aquino and Budget Secretary Florencio Abad was a challenge to the higher levels of our lawmakers’ consciences.