And Yet Possibly Another Anomaly Uncovered

[Mr Lee]

A billion here, a billion there, seems money was flying everywhere, but to the poor and to improvements for the country. P8B spent under GMA for ‘farm-to-pocket’ deal 09/19/2011 In its last six months in power, the Arroyo administration spent almost P7.5 billion of taxpayers’ money for a “farm-to-market” road project that did not even have a work program, Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.Drilon added the oversight committee on public expend-itures uncovered these alleged fund releases to the Department of Agriculture (DA) following the submission of various agencies of their respective liquidation reports recently.“We are deter-mining if the funds went to a ‘farm-to-pocket roads,’ ‘roads to my farm’ project or nothing has happened at all,” Drilon said.

[Jake]

A billion here, a billion there, seems money was flying everywhere, but to the poor and to improvements for the country. P8B spent under GMA for ‘farm-to-pocket’ deal 09/19/2011 In its last six months in power, the Arroyo administration spent almost P7.5 billion of taxpayers’ money for a “farm-to-market” road project that did not even have a work program, Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.Drilon added the oversight committee on public expend-itures uncovered these alleged fund releases to the Department of Agriculture (DA) following the submission of various agencies of their respective liquidation reports recently.“We are deter-mining if the funds went to a ‘farm-to-pocket roads,’ ‘roads to my farm’ project or nothing has happened at all,” Drilon said.

Yeah, the so-called "midnight deals", which includes the pardon of a few notorious characters.