The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), known to all as pork barrel, was created with the most noble of intentions. Since senators and members of the House of Representatives always have to meet with their constituents who bring with them all sorts of problems that they expect the lawmakers to solve, the need for funds to dispense to them became an unofficial part of the solons’ work.

Constituencies often have no clear idea as to the nature of the work of lawmakers. They believe that as elected officials, their senators and congressmen are capable of finding them jobs, taking care of their children’s educational or hospital expenses, and building basketball courts and parks in their communities.

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