PDAF: Constructive or Destructive?

                2013 was a year of controversies and calamities that our country had faced and still facing up to now. War in Zamboanga, earthquake in Bohol and Cebu, super typhoon in Leyte and Samar, and the PDAF or Pork Barrel Scam. The latter had a great impact on our country and really affected all citizens that were concerned with the sake of our economy.

                Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF is the money allocated to “soft” and “hard” projects of representatives of different district areas here in the Philippines. “Soft” projects include scholarships, medical assistance, livelihood support programs and other assistance to local government units while “hard” projects include infrastructures like buildings, roads, bridges and the like.

                PDAF would be useful if it was used in a proper and clean way. But with the way our government was being governed by other corrupt officials, this fund would only go to their pockets.

                To prevent this kind of corruption, the Filipino citizens wanted it to be abolished. It (PDAF) would only lead to severe problem that may be added to the burden that we’re carrying. We hope and pray that this anomaly would come to an end.