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Privatized Intelligence And Discretionary Funds
Annually, the local chief executive has the calamity fund, the gender fund, the intelligence fund, and the fun funds (the 20% development fund parlayed at the unfettered discretion of the LCE).
The Intelligence Fund can be spent without any control whatsoever and the COA looks the other way. If there has been [...]

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In the early 60s,  the clamor then was the emasculation of the Executive branch insofar as fund support for local governments is concerned.  It was then the heyday of Imperial Manila where one saw the spectacle of local officials making beelines to the Office of the President,  practically panhandling for local projects.  Diputados then were [...]

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