Abolishing the pork barrel is well and good, but the sociopaths behind large-scale corruption will just find some other flaw in the system to take advantage of. Not just removing the pork barrel, but the system needs to be reworked to bake in transparency (all transactions made public knowledge BEFORE implementation not just on request as per FOI bill) and accountability (all transactions have a well-defined set of people who would be held liable in case of shenanigans)
Ritchie Tiongson
Transparency AND oversight. This is what happens when we make up a fund disbursement method without checks and balances.
Roy Tang
Oversight would be nice, but I expect that with a fully transparent system, the media and the public would provide all the oversight needed and then some
Ritchie Tiongson
Media and public don't have the authority or means to immediately ACT upon that oversight though. Rather, whatever oversight is officially put in place would have the media and public backing them up with full transparency in place. Ideally, both would enhance each other.
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