More pork, nothing for teachers, says ACT Teachers on Aquino’s 2014 budget

(ACT Teachers Partylist Rep.) Tinio assailed President Aquino’s priorities as he said that while “there’s more money for pork barrel, nothing is allocated for salary increase of teachers.” He said government could not talk of success in education without giving decent salaries for teachers.

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Davao march vs. pork to continue, calls Aquino’s pork barrel scrapping ‘doublespeak’

Monday’s protest march against the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel will continue, despite President Benigno Aquino III’s statement that the pork barrel system will be abolished.

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Netizens parry Aquino’s pork abolition pitch: ‘SEBO’, ‘HOLDAF’, ‘GOLAY’, ‘LIEMPO’

President Aquino III’s announcement Friday that “it is time to abolish PDAF” or the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) spurred epicurean invectives from journalists, activists and academe all over social media. They’d rather call it by other edibles.

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