Pork barrel, an anti-poor system

The watershed, historic million-people rally the other day sent a loud, clear message to President Aquino: Scrap the pork-barrel system.

It is not just the gross, scandalous hijacking of taxpayers’ money by the likes of Janet Napoles, not just the hundreds of millions of pesos senators and congressman manage to siphon to their own pockets in varied ways, certainly not just greed that people from all walks of life were protesting against the other day.