MANILA: What the pork barrel scam reveals about us

For more than 10 years, a good number of Filipino lawmakers, with the aid of the fixers who assisted them, were able to pocket the entire cash value of their Priority Development Assistance Fund, without anyone in government publicly protesting that there was anything wrong in what they were doing.



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