Pork barrel

Our politicians have a lot of levers in terms of exercising on Jew influence or discretion in this budget issue.

In retrospect, how do you read these allocables and non-allocables? Is this a mutation of the so-called silent, quiet, more surreptitious versions of the pork barrel back in the day.

Because the more open version of the pork barrel, the PDAF, is no longer there.

It's unconstitutional.

The Post-Enactment Discretion, the Belgica v. Ochoa case, more than a decade ago.

But what's happening with the allocables is that DPWs can determine each district, a certain amount, and then the legislators suddenly have a say on what would go into the determination of the NEP And then we'll talk about other insertions later on, including questionable insertions.

So what are we seeing here, Dean? Is it the failure of safeguards and guardrails? Or is this really a sign that we have one of the most entrepreneurial and a very high R&D capability when it comes to our political class?

I think the conclusion that I will get from all of this is what we're seeing is an evolution of the pork barrel.

... and we're gonna, we're gonna talk a bit of government and talk pork baron- barrelling.

Pork barrelling.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

We were talking pork before.

On the back of the hogs chat.

Now we're talking pork barrelling.

That's right.