It takes time to find out how money is going through different hands. Many people are asking themselves, where does our money go? A simple question but it takes a slightly long time to find out the answer. Government has a vital role. It is to secure and protect the people and at the same time, the nation. Its primary goal is to protect them not only physically but mentally and not only mentally, but emotionally and financially. It is their duty to hear how the nation is screaming loudly about their needs.
As what I have said, the government, as well as its branches and departments has the role to report what is happening to the nation as well as the whole country. And we, people have the right to listen and be observant on what's happening to their surroundings. Commission on Audit ave released its report about the PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund) that aims to help barangays and other areas that needs social help. From the term itself, the word Audit, means that they are the one who are responsible to create a computations and findings about what's happening to all the money given to senators. They reported properly the results on the pork barrel including tables.
Those tables are stating about the means of a "soft project" and "hard project" that was made by the local government units or LGUs. Soft projects are those who cover small and non-infrastructure projects. Non-infrastructure project involves scholarship, purchase of IT equipment, medical equipment and medical assistance for valued patient on the barangays. Small project involves water system, irrigation facilities, barangay electrification and construction repair of jails and fire stations. On the other hand, there are also called "hard projects" which involves public work projects such as roads, bridges, flood control, school buildings, hospital, health facilities and public market.
All of those are somewhat can be called as the primary needs of the people. But sad to say, some of the project, even soft or hard project that has been scheduled to do and to finish remains pending most of the time. Not because there's no enough funds provided to raise the said project, but it is more on ignoring the fund as a tool for making project and spending it for their own sake. There are times that a leader of a barangay is not being considerate in terms of leadership, they're always making themselves as their first priority and does not prioritize the people inside the community. I can't hardly imagine that, most of the people pay their taxes. Big or even small value added tax is always there, but where does the money of an individual tax payer go? Many people were thinking that, "I pay the right tax, so I must received a good in return". It should be worth it because they pay for it.
Moreover, people tend to imagine why do higher ranking officials are taking advantages to the community that they're serving? Not only as a leader, but as an individual they should try to put their feet on others shoes. Try to stand on other people's situation. Maybe we are all different on our appearance, having different class and being rich or poor, but we are all the same because we are human and we are individuals. We should treat each other equally and not being biased to other people on our surroundings. Try not only to prioritize ourselves but also the need of the people. Offices and officials of Commission on Audit (COA) did the right thing. They're good on evaluating the needs and the emotion on how's the senator and how they cope up on handling reports about financial status as well as the economy of the state. They did report on the things that are not commonly known by all and they serve the people right.
