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Why Do Contractors Get Billions While the Poor Receive Pennies?
Billions of pesos flow to contractors through government projects while senior citizens and the poor receive meager pensions. Corruption keeps Filipinos in poverty.
🚨 Editorial: Why do contractors get billions in funds while the poor receive only small pensions? Corruption robs Filipinos of progress.
Editorial | A Great Question for the Nation
Why is it that government contractors can easily secure billions of pesos in public funds, yet ordinary Filipinos—senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and the poor—receive only P2,000 to P6,000 in pension or assistance?
This stark inequality reveals misplaced priorities and the heavy cost of corruption. Agencies like the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Customs, and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) are allocated billions, much of which vanish into overpriced flood control and road-widening projects. Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Office for Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) struggle with limited budgets that directly serve the vulnerable.
If these billions are only siphoned off through collusion between contractors and officials, why not redirect them to programs that actually uplift lives?
A Conflict of Interest?
The public deserves transparency. Who are the contractors getting these projects? Do lawmakers or officials have financial stakes in them? Are congressional funds being used to benefit private interests over public welfare? These questions demand urgent investigation.
Corruption Keeps Us Poor
The Philippines remains poor not because its people lack ability, but because corruption bleeds the nation dry. Money that should build schools, hospitals, and housing instead enriches the few. Every peso lost to corruption is a peso stolen from the poor.
The Call to Action
Corruption must end. Officials who plunder must be punished—no matter their position. Public funds belong to the Filipino people, not to contractors or political allies.
To government leaders: prove that you stand with the people, not with corruption.
To the Filipino people: do not be silent. Speak, share, demand accountability.
Because as long as corruption thrives, it is always the poor who will suffer most.
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Why Do Contractors Get Billions While the Poor Receive Pennies?
