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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
That silly party-list system will have to go, sometime in the near future, because clearly, it has been abused through the years, and will continue to be abused — even by the so-called “cause-oriented groups.”
What this system has become is for many party-listers to enter Congress through the backdoor and end up having the congressional perks and more importantly for them, raking in millions — in pork barrel funds, which do not necessarily go to those constituents they claim to represent.
The truth is, even those party-listers who claim to represent the poor and the marginalized, as well as the leftists who do not seem to want anyone else other than their groups and those ideologically attuned to them, to become members of Congress, never once bared just where their pork barrel funds go, because for all the years that they have been serving as congressmen and getting all that pork, the same claimed marginalized groups they say they represent are still living under the same poverty-ridden conditions. Besides which, when they are aligned with the elite majority, their voices are voluntarily muted as they are in support of the administration — until they cut off and join the opposition forces.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100722com2.html
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