Remember President Aquino’s blatant hijacking of the budget in 2012 to 2013, masked as the Disbursement Acceleration Plan (DAP)?

It raised the hundreds of millions of pesos in pork barrel-like funds, which, with the regular pork barrel money,  “convinced” the 20 senators to remove from office Chief Justice Renato Corona on the flimsy ground of his incomplete SALN (Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth). It also rechanneled funds to finance such Aquino whims as the P2-billion road projects for his home province of Tarlac and the P9 billion to bribe officials of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao to support his BBL fantasy.

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