August 26, a national Holiday celebrating the National Heroes Day witnessed the gathering or more than 400,000 hungry (and hungry) Filipinos crying for justice. They all want to put and end to a culture that tolerates the “development assistance funds” of the members or the bilateral Philippine Congress, both the lower house (House of Representatives) and upper house (Senate) (READ: PDAF or infamously known as Pork Barrel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recently, the people of the Philippines became more aware of the irregularities of the pork barrel<\/a>, involving a number of individuals (including some known senators<\/a>. One even claimed that some people are doing this to destroy his name as he is considersing to run in the next elections<\/a> in 2016. The position would be, ehem, President. <\/p>\n

Although an estimate of the crowd is just about 400,000-strong, a number of similar protests happened around the world with a number of OFWs joined the cause<\/a> and voiced out their feelings as they are the people we call modern heroes as their remittances contribute a lot to the country’s financial growth.<\/p>\n

This is only the beginning. We will constantly remind the government that we are the boss of the Philippine president<\/a> and that he cannot disobey our commands.<\/p>\n

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Image source GMA NEWS Online<\/a><\/p>\n

We pay our taxes dutifully every month and we want an explanation how it is being spent, as much as how we demand a receipt when we purchase something.<\/p>\n

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