There are campaigns now to look at the pork barrel of solons and or to eliminate the same. The CDF (countryside development fund, aphorism for pork barrel) as it is called totals billions.
The budget for a senator is PHP 200 million a year.
Are they put to good use?
Are they the source of graft and corruption?
Do they help alleviate poverty and promote countryside development really?
Look at one such project sponsored by a senator
What do you think?
