THERE'S more than one way to skin a cat, as the saying goes, and more than one way to insert a "pork barrel" in the government's spending program.

We weren't born yesterday to believe that the P5.768-trillion national budget for this year is "free from the shadows of pork barrel," as House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez claimed in November when the chamber turned over to the Senate the General Appropriations bill it had approved.

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