"In the past year, Aquino could not avoid being at the center of the storm of the people's protests against the corrupt pork barrel system, as he insisted on defending Malacañang's own pork barrel of several hundred billion pesos in lump sum appropriations," pointed out the CPP. "While claiming to fight corruption, Aquino is defending the corrupt system of disbursing funds at his sole discretion, which he uses to line the pockets of bureacrat capitalists to buy their political loyalties."
"Sa nakaraang taon, hindi maiwasan ni Aquino na malagay sa sentro ng sigwa ng protestang bayan laban sa tiwaling sistema ng pork barrel, dahil sa pilit niyang pagtatanggol ng pork barrel ng Malacañang na umaabot ng ilandaang bilyong piso kahit walang aytem sa badyet," pagdidiin ng PKP. "Habang ipinamamarali ang paglaban sa korapsyon, ipinagtatanggol ni Aquino ang tiwaling sistema ng paggasta ng pondo na solo niyang kapasyahan, na ginagamit niya para langisan ang mga burukrata kapitalista at bilhin ang kanilang pampulitikang katapatan."