Philippines: What is your comment that our politician are spending "our" money as rampant as this?

i'm not surprised with everyone else because senators do have a lifestyle to maintain... have more than one place to live, have a nice car, eat in the best restaurants, send their kids to the most expensive schools, pay the people who work for them... it doesn't necessarily mean it's all "our" money since most of them were already wealthy even before they became senators. i don't mind what they spend on as long as they do their job making useful laws. it's those idiots who do nothing in the senate but sit down (and talk about meaningless **** when given the chance) that bother me. which makes me wonder...

HOW THE **** DOES TRILLANES GET TO SPEND 17.2 MILLION PESOS IN DETENTION?

The bitter truth is, the money that these senators get to spend are all part of the package of being a senator. That is the reason why many want to become senators because they have a yearly budget of at least 200M each, and for a congressman at least 70M each. And mind you, they are not required to submit receipts to liquidate their spending, so who knows where all the money is really spent. No wonder they own expensive SUVs, and they get to travel so often, with accompanying family members and eat at very expensive restaurants. I don't think these politicians would spend this much if they are using their own hard-earned money. So for the coming elections, I am seriously contemplating on not voting for any senator as I don't want to be an instrument in putting anyone of them in the position where they will just be spending taxpayers money at will.

I'll just focus on one line:

"The senators had bigger expenses this year, with the TOP 10 spenders alone incurring expenses over P170 million."

Fact: There are about 90M Filipinos, 30% of which lives below the poverty line.

>If that P170M were given directly to the citizens, each Filipino should have been P1.89M richer.

>If 50% were used for various expenses (paying staff, doing research, 'official trips' etc) and the rest was equally divided among Filipinos, we should have been P940k richer.

Don't tell me these were used for building waiting sheds, road improvement, street lighting etc.

San naman napunta ang national budget?

Maybe for the coming election, let's not make the same mistake of voting for politicians with that same intention...

The fault of those voters are are willing to let themselves be "fooled" and make them "uto-uto" through promises and vote buying. It has been happening again and again and the voters never learned. When will they learn?

If that is what they teach you in school, the government must reform the schools drastically. It is out of date.

thats the reason why they want to become politicians

I hope they will die