send in the clowns (update three)
(reposting to include the latest pork barrel scam worth, hold your breath, billions of pesos. billions , dahlins, billions! ) even the most callous, passive, apathetic, jaded among us were moved (angered, sad, mad) after reading the billions of pesos in public funds that allegedly went to the pockets of corrupt government officials, lawmakers and their cohorts in the private sector who created fake non-government organizations to siphon off those billions. that the president refused to abolish the so-called pork barrel funds allocated every year to lawmakers and their pet projects (the money is not released directly to legislators but to their chosen or approved infrastructure facilities) made the people even angrier. this is because the president -- the only son of the edsa heroes ninoy and cory aquino -- ran and won under the platform of tuwid na daan (straight path), alluding to his administration's efforts to tread the narrow, thorny but righteous ...