On the 25th day of July 2011, President Benigno Aquino Jr. held his Second State of the Nation Address (SONA) at Batasan Pambansa. He stated his "Wang-Wang" project that resulted into good outcome. He explained that it did not only eliminate most of the "Wang-Wang" minded politicians but it also helps our country to improve and aimed progress in our economy. Also he said that this project will boost the business industry, ensuring that the people’s money is in the rightful place that will give rise to the establishment of infrastructure thus, creating job opportunities for the Filipinos
During the campaign period, Pnoy exclaimed that “kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap”. This is how he got the sympathy of the Filipino people and finally got elected. According to him our country being free from corruption will make its own way to progress.
Among his accomplishments he cited in his SONA, is the decline of the self rated hunger to 15.1 percent, the high records on the Philippine stock market and, the improvement of credit ratings which means low interest rate on our debts.
“Personal talaga sa akin ang paggawa ng tama, at ang pagpapanagot sa mga gumagawa ng mali—sino man sila. At hindi lamang dapat ako ang namemersonal sa usaping ito. Personal dapat ito sa ating lahat, dahil bawat Pilipino ay biktima nito.” – this statement is a frontal attack to the past administration, emphasizing his determination to remove the corruption and his persistent search on the anomalies that have been occurred before and still occurring until now. During his administration, corruption cases committed by arroyo and government officials under her were discovered and exposed.. According to him those corruption issues must not let go, forget and even forgive. Corruption even occurred in other countries and the removal of it is very impossible or remote to reality, but the point here is his performance cannot be highly measured by the number of corruption cases that have been exposed to the public.
He made mention also the great number of foreign investors who are willing to participate in exploring and strengthening the country’s oil and natural gas resources.
He noted the increase of 15.6 percent in rice production was a result of the government irrigating an additional 11, 611 hectares of fields and rehabilitating around 212,000 hectares of land. The said accomplishment is a good start to their goals: to put an end the over importation of rice and; the rice self sufficiency, ensuring that the rice served on every Filipino’s dinner table is planted here, harvested here and purchased here
Another, is the decline of unemployment rate to 7.2 percent was the result of 1,400,000 jobs created last year. With regards to this, the government is looking forward to address the job mismatch occurring today.
Curricula will be analyzed, reviewed, and made further improvements for the students to experience the quality of education they needed thus preparing them for life. This will also be helpful to them in choosing their right career.
The president is also assured the nation that the country’s Armed Forces would be ready to respond to threats of invasion as upgrades and modernization of equipment will soon be at arm’s reach. In accordance with the Armed Forces, Pnoy mentioned that he started the housing project for the police and soldiers to prevent corruption amongst them.
These are the things the Pnoy Administrations tells the public, but is this the real score? During his first year as Philippine President, there are reported news happened. It makes public think that his first year failed. That he broke his promises. He promised to prosecute human rights violators and put an end to extrajudicial killings. But his first year as president registered higher incidence of extrajudicial killings which totaled to 48. In the labor sector, five workers and unionists, three urban poor were killed, compared to one under Arroyo’s first year in 2001.
Another one is the rich became richer. The richest Filipinos increased their net worth by 39 percent totaling to US$22.8 B from US$16.4 B in the previous year. On the other hand, the government – in order to boast about the decreased number of poor Filipinos – changed the poverty threshold from P54 a day to only P46 a day. Despite this, the number of poor Filipinos remained high at 23.1 million. The controversial Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) – a program which is more of a remedy than a solution – only lessened the incidence of hunger temporarily but failed to diminish the number of poor. High prices and low wages were being seen in our economy since first year. There are a lot of incidences that make every Filipino doubt on what Pnoy can do for our country
PNoy has miserably failed. His promised of straight path did not uplift the lives of the majority of people whom he called his BOSS. His boss were sent deeper into destitution, the poor were driven to streets to dwell and its workers to wallow from lower wages whose value keeps diminishing every day.
A year after, if ever there was straight path that PNoy government walked on, it was the path that was not clearly for majority of the Filipinos but for foreign capital and the richest few Filipinos. One year is over, and the direction the country is heading is apparently becoming no difference from the direction that the Arroyo administration took that he promised to change, a promise that catapulted him to Presidency. He failed in his first year.
Thus, in his second SONA, he has every chance and power to deliver not just the rhetorics but effect to realize the demands of the basic sectors: legislated substantial wage hike, clear and regular employment programs, genuine agrarian reform, prosecution of human rights violators and social services for majority of the Filipinos. These demands are just and undoubtedly possible if only PNoy will follow the straight path he promised to the people.
As student's we can't say we don't believe the entire thing the President Noynoy Aquino said ,it’s just we can't feel the effects of his administration. We can still see a lot of people who are not eating 3 times a day. There are also a lot of youth who are out in the street and are not studying due to poverty. Many Filipinos are still unemployed and electricity and water bills are still high. We guess that those who are just in power and those who are better off in life felt the effect of our so called developing economy but for regular Filipinos who just eat 3 times a day and has a regular job they can't feel the effects of our economy due to scarcity of resources that they have. Pnoy's motive of the termination of wang-wang gives Filipinos especially those who are in power discipline not to abuse their authority but the question is are they following it? Does wang-wang is the solution to eliminate poverty and eliminate our debts to other country? But try to think of it, big things really start to be small. __MAE:)
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