Argument for scrapping the CDF

Government
Not scrapping it would be encouraging the unlawful use of pork barrel

Issue- Considering that there is corruption with the pork barrel, would the masses be better off without the CDF?

Premise- There are corrupt legislators, and even though the percentage of those who are corrupt aren’t clear, the fact that they exist is already enough of a reason to scrap the pork barrel.

Why? The number of corrupt legislators will increase

Why? It will be evident to the non-corrupt legislators that the corrupt ones are getting away with it

How? The corrupt ones are hiding under the justification that some municipalities are almost solely dependant on their CDF allocation. While the people continue to believe that that fact is reason enough to keep the pork barrel, the corrupt ones rejoice.

So what? The non-corrupt may start using some of the funds for themselves,

Why? Legislators are not corrupt because they are evil. They are corrupt because of the strong culture of corruption. To many government officials, it’s be corrupt or starve. It is incredible difficult to not use the money given, especially when one is still lacking basic necessities. And it is incredibly easy to take some of the money especially when you know you can get away with it.

I’m not defending corruption. I’m merely emphasizing that for an honest official, it’s a frustration to see a corrupt legislator get the same CDF allocation, while the honest one is suffering.

So what? For the non-corrupt, they will start out small. They would justify it by saying; it’s not as much as official A. Next, It’s not as much as legislator B. Then, It’s not as much as Senator C. Soon enough that official would just be as corrupt as the next.

That doesn’t mean that it’s not wrong. Therefore, this thinking should be eliminated. Scrapping pork barrel would do that. Keeping it would be allowing the corrupt officials to walk and encouraging others to fall into corruption as well. There will come a point in time when it is clear that the majority of the legislators are corrupt and that single justification that a municipality or two solely rely on pork barrel, that justification will no longer fly.

So now, ladies and gentlemen, we ask: are you going to wait for that point in time, when it is clear that corruption is abundant and the people are half-jobless and half-homeless? Or will you act now, and end the corruption existing with the CDF before it grows?