IT is coincidental that one, 2019 has been designated as the ‘year of the pig’ in the Chinese calendar, and two, that our public life today is roiled by quarrels over the so-called pork barrel in the national budget.
Seriously, it is a mark of naiveté and amateurism of Philippine politics that Filipinos, politicians and citizens alike, remain fixated on the term “pork barrel” and everything unpleasant associated with it.
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