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Francis Darwin Eugenio

3 ChE-D

The 10 Billion Priority Development Assistance Scam, popularly known as the Pork

Barrel Scam, is a major scandal involving the alleged misuse by multiple lawmakers of their

Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"). I’ve first heard

about this scam while reading an issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in our school library last

July 2013. At first I was unaware of the magnitude of the issue, so I didn’t take time to read

much of the article. I only became indignant and curious after I’ve learned the staggering amount

of money involved is around 10 Billion pesos! Imagine, these politicians and their cohorts

managed to steal 10 Billion pesos from the national treasury. What kind of morality these people

have? Do they still have a conscience? They have forgotten the Principle of Stewardship which

states that people should cultivate God's gifts responsibly. They were given money to be used to

develop the country, but they wasted and stole the said money in direct violation of the 7th

Commandment.

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