“Epal or not, it’s better for people to know where you put your money…I mean, right now everybody talks about anti-epal. But there’s also a necessity to inform the people, the constituents, where their money goes,” Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr is quoted as saying in this report from Inquirer. Dear politicians, we don’t think it’s okay to plaster your name or initials on public property, no matter how clever they are (example: “Linisin, Ikarangal ang Maynila” for LIM?). In any other country, that would be called vandalism.
