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“Makibaka Wag Magbaboy”
The Pork Barrel System in the Philippines
Casunuran, Ivan Rhey O.
De Ocampo, John Robert S.
Veloso, Victor Luis C. III
Table of Contents
Pork Barrel and its History……………………………………………………………………… 3
Usage of the Pork Barrel………………………………………………………………………… 6
Officials that uses the Pork Barrel……………………………………………………………….. 7
Importance of Pork Barrel………………………………………………………………………. 8
For destruction or continuation………...…………………………………………………………. 10
Conclusions and Recommendations……………………………………………………………. 15
Pork Barrel
It is the appropriation of polity spending for localized projects secured solely or originally to bring money to a delegated's district. (Wikipedia, 2013) It is the used of commonwealth funds for projects designed to acquire votes.
History
The term pork barrel political economy usually refers to spending which is intended to utility constituents of a politician in return for their political support, either in the con~ation of campaign contributions or votes. In the plain 1863 story "The Children of the Public", Edward Everett Hale used the denomination pork barrel as a homely similitude for any form of public expenditure to the citizenry. After the American Civil War, however, the term came to be used in a depreciative sense. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the modern sense of the term from 1873. By the 1870s, references to "pork" were common in Congress, and the call was further popularized by a 1919 portion by Chester Collins Maxey in the National Municipal Review, which reported on certain legislative acts known to members of Congress while "pork barrel bills". He claimed that the dub originated in a pre-Civil War habitual performance of giving slaves a barrel of saline pork as a reward and requiring them to be rivals among themselves to get their parcel out of the handout. More generally, a barrel of sarcasm pork was a common larder in like manner in 19th century households, and could be used as a measure of the kindred's...
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