Ten Billion Pesos (TBP)

A 10-year-long pork barrel scam that reportedly defrauded the government of some Ten Billion Pesos has aroused the imagination and curiosity of people. Just what can TBP do?

TBP could have bought peace of mind for the Philippine Air Force over the need to protect the country’s rights in the Scarborough Shoal and confront the bullying of China. The amount is enough to give them the much needed 8 Korean FA-50 fighter jets valued at 29 million US dollars each. The PAF does not have a single fighter jet in the last 5 years.

TBP could have saved the face of the National Irrigation Administration in the presence of President Pinoy during its recent anniversary by creating additional 34,000 hectares of irrigable land, restored another 34,000 hectares and rehabilitated 87,000 hectares more.

TBP could have advanced the flood control and calamity mitigation program of the government by allowing the relocation of some 55,000 informal-settler families at 18,000-peso “rental subsidy” each.

TBP could have significantly lessened the power shortage in Mindanao by providing 8 units of 10-megawatt solar farms or power plants similar to what will be built in Surallah, South Cotabato.

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ducation Secretary Armin Luistro jump with pride by wiping out the classroom shortage of 5,921 rooms twice over and by reducing teacher shortage from 11,648 to only a little more than a thousand.

TBP could have hired some 13,000 doctors at a competitive salary of 30,000 pesos a month for a year to solve the lack of doctors in the country especially those serving the poor giving the government ample time to put in place a more permanent solution to the medical brain drain that warns of health crisis for the people.

TBP could have made the Commission on Higher Education ecstatic by allowing them to grant more scholarships for additional 250,000 students through a 4-year course in college. The increasing number of out-of-school youth in the country is becoming a big social liability that impacts on health, peace and order and the economy.

TBP of people’s money channeled to bogus NGO’s just merited a series of headline stories in a major national newspaper and sent shock waves across party lines and put the entire government on the spot. This can turn into a political black hole that will suck everything into its deadly belly from national figures to local executives.

TBP can pay for the best law firm and skillful public relation practitioners in the country to defend what is indefensible in the eyes of the public. It can mystify what is simple fact and deodorize what terribly stinks.

And finally the TBP with all of the bizarre images it created in everyone’s minds challenges our national spirit, if it still resides within us, to put our foot down as one people and deliver a death blow to official corruption. That is, if we have not been yet intimidated and mesmerized by the incredible TBP.

My classmate who made the art of political campaign as his lifetime profession even thought that TBP can buy 10 million votes to grab the presidency. I have the gut feeling that this is impossible. Or is my intuition wrong on this one? •

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