Full text of Arroyo’s 2008 Sona
Stat of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the 2nd Regular Session of the 14th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines
28 July 2008
Thank you, Speaker Nograles. Senate President Villar. Senators and Representatives. Vice President de Castro, President Ramos, Chief Justice Puno, members of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen:
I address you today at a crucial moment in world history.
Just a few months ago, we ended 2007 with the strongest economic growth in a generation. Inflation was low, the peso strong and a million new jobs were created. We were all looking to a better, brighter future.
Because tough choices were made, kumikilos na ang bayan sa wakas. Malapit na sana tayo sa pagbalanse ng budget. We were retiring debts in great amounts, reducing the drag on our country’s development, habang namumuhunan sa taong bayan.
Biglang-bigla, nabaligtad ang ekonomiya ng mundo. Ang pagtalon ng presyo ng langis at pagkain ay nagbunsod ng pandaigdigan krisis, the worst since the Great Depression and the end of World War II. Some blame speculators moving billions of dollars from subprime mortgages to commodities like fuel and food. Others point of the very real surge in demand as millions of Chinese and Indians move up to the middle class.
Whatever the reasons, we are on a roller coaster ride of oil price hikes, high food prices and looming economic recession in the US and other markets. Uncertainty has moved like a terrible tsunami around the globe, wiping away gains, erasing progress.
This is a complex time that defies simple and easy solutions. For starters, it is hard to identify villains, unlike in the 1997 financial crisis. Everyone seems to be a victim, rich countries and poor, though certainly some can take more punishment than others.
To address these global challenges, we must go on building and buttressing bridges to allies around the world: to bring in the rice to feed our people, investments to create jobs; and to keep the peace and maintain stability in our country and the rest of the world. Yet even as we reach out to those who need, and who may need us, we strive for greater self-reliance.
Because tough choices were made, the global crisis did not catch us helpless and unprepared. Through foresight, grit and political will, we built a shield around our country that has slowed down and somewhat softened the worst effects of the global crisis. We have the money to care for our people and pay for food when there are shortages; for fuel despite price spikes.
Neither we nor anyone else in the world expected this day to come so soon but we prepared for it. For the guts not to flinch in the face of tough choices, I thank God. For the wisdom to recognize how needed you are, I thank, you Congress. For footing the bill, I thank the taxpayers.
The result has been, on the one hand, ito ang nakasalba sa bayan; and, on the other, more unpopularity for myself in the opinion polls. Yet, even unfriendly polls show self-rated poverty down to its 20-year low in 2007.
My responsibility as President is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
Many in this great hall live privileged lives and exert great influence in public affairs. I am accessible to you, but I spend time every day with the underprivileged and under represented who cannot get a grip on their lives in the daily, all-consuming struggle to make ends meet.
Nag-aalala ako para sa naka-aawang maybahay na pasan ang pananagutan para sa buong pamilya. Nag-aalala ako para sa magsasakang nasa unang hanay ng pambansang produksyon ng pagkain ngunit nagsisikap pakanin ang pamilya. I care for hardworking students soon to graduate and wanting to see hope of good job and a career prospect here at home.
Nag-aalala ako para sa 41-year old na padre de pamilya na di araw-araw ang trabaho, at nag-aabala sa asawa at tatlong anak, at dapat bigyan ng higit pang pagkakakitaan at dangal. I care for our teachers who gave the greatest gift we ever received – a good education – still trying to pass on the same gift to succeeding generations. I care for our OFWs, famed for their skill, integrity and untiring labor, who send home their pay as the only way to touch loved ones so far away. Nagpupugay ako ngayon sa kanilang mga karaniwang Pilipino.
My critics say this is fiction, along with other facts and figures I cite today. I call it heroism though they don’t need our praise. Each is already a hero to those who matter most, their families.
I said this is a global crisis where everyone is a victim. But only few can afford to avoid, or pay to delay, the worst effects.
Many more have nothing to protect them from the immediate blunt force trauma of the global crisis. Tulad ninyo, nag-aalala ako para sa kanila. Ito ang mga taong bayan na dapat samahan natin. Not only because of their sacrifices for our country but because they are our countrymen.
How do we solve these many complex challenges?
Sa kanilang kalagayan, the answer must be special care and attention in this great hour of need.
First, we must have a targeted strategy with set of precise prescriptions to ease the price challenges we are facing.
Second, food self-sufficiency; less energy dependence; greater self-reliance in our attitude as a people and in our posture as a nation.
Third, short-term relief cannot be at the expense of long term reforms. These reforms will benefit not just the next generation of Filipinos, but the next President as well.
Napakahalaga ang Value Added Tax sa pagharap sa mga hamong ito.
Itong programa ang sagot sa mga problemang namana natin.
Una, mabawasan ang ating mga utang and shore up our fiscal independence.
Pangalawa, higit na pamumuhunan para mamamayan at imprastraktura.
Pangatlo, sapat na pondo para sa mga programang pangmasa.
Thus, the infrastructure links programmed for the our poorest provinces like Northern Samar: Lao-ang-Lapinig-Arteche, right now ay maputik, San Isidro-Lope de Vega; the rehabilitation of Maharlika in Samar .
Take VAT away and you and I abdicate our responsibility as leaders and pull the rug from under our present and future progress, which may be compromised by the global crisis.
Lalong lumakas ang tiwala ng mga investor dahil sa VAT. Mula P56.50 kada dolyar, lumakas ang piso hanggang P40.20 bago bumalik sa P44 dahil sa mga pabigat ng pangdaigdigang ekonomiya. Kung alisin ang VAT, hihina ang kumpiyansa ng negosyo, lalong tataas ang interes, lalong bababa ang piso, lalong mamahal ang bilihin.
Kapag ibinasura ang VAT sa langis at kuryente, ang mas makikinabang ay ang mga may kaya na kumukonsumo ng 84% ng langis at 90% ng kuryente habang mas masasaktan ang mahihirap na mawawalan ng P80 billion para sa mga programang pinopondohan ngayon ng VAT. Take away VAT and we strip our people of the means to ride out the world food and energy crisis.
We have come too far and made too many sacrifices to turn back now on fiscal reforms. Leadership is not about doing the first easy thing that comes to mind; it is about doing what is necessary, however hard.
The government has persevered, without flip-flops, in its much-criticized but irreplaceable policies, including oil and power VAT and oil deregulation.
Patuloy na gagamitin ng pamahalaan ang lumalago nating yaman upang tulungan ang mga pamilyang naghihirap sa taas ng bilihin at hampas ng bagyo, habang nagpupundar upang sanggahan ang bayan sa mga krisis sa hinaharap.
Para sa mga namamasada at namamasahe sa dyip, sinusugpo natin ang kotong at colorum upang mapataas ang kita ng mga tsuper. Si Federico Alvarez kumikita ng P200 a day sa kaniyang rutang Cubao-Rosario. Tinaas ito ng anti-kotong, anti-colorum ngayon P500 na ang kita niya. Iyan ang paraan kung paano napananatili ang dagdag-pasahe sa piso lamang. Halaga lang ng isang text.
Texting is a way of life. I asked the telecoms to cut the cost of messages between networks. They responded. It is now down to 50 centavos.
Noong Hunyo, nagpalabas tayo ng apat na bilyong piso mula sa VAT sa langis—dalawang bilyong pambayad ng koryente ng apat na milyong mahihirap, isang bilyon para college scholarship o pautang sa 70,000 na estudyanteng maralita; kalahating bilyong pautang upang palitan ng mas matipid na LPG, CNG o biofuel ang motor ng libu-libong jeepney; at kalahating bilyong pampalit sa fluorescent sa mga pampublikong lugar.
Kung mapapalitan ng fluorescent ang lahat ng bumbilya, makatitipid tayo ng lampas P2 billion.
Sa sunod na katas ng VAT, may P1 billion na pambayad ng kuryente ng mahihirap; kalahating bilyon para sa matatandang di sakop ng SSS o GSIS; kalahating bilyong kapital para sa pamilya ng mga namamasada; kalahating bilyon upang mapataas ang kakayahan at equipment ng mga munting ospital sa mga lalawigan. At para sa mga kalamidad, angkop na halaga.
We released P1 billion for the victims of typhoon Frank. We support a supplemental Western Visayas calamity budget from VAT proceeds, as a tribute to the likes of Rodney Berdin, age 13, of Barangay Rombang, Belison, Antique, who saved his mother, brother and sister from the raging waters of Sibalom River .
Mula sa buwang ito, wala nang income tax ang sumusweldo ng P200,000 o mas mababa sa isang taon – P12 billion na bawas-buwis para sa maralita at middle class. Maraming salamat, Congress.
Ngayong may P32 na commercial rice, natugunan na natin ang problema sa pagkain sa kasalukuyan. Nagtagumpay tayo dahil sa pagtutulungan ng buong bayan sa pagsasaka, bantay-presyo at paghihigpit sa price manipulation, sa masipag na pamumuno ni Artie Yap.
Sa mga LGU at religious groups na tumutulong dalhin ang NFA rice sa mahihirap, maraming salamat sa inyo.
Dahil sa subsidy, NFA rice is among the region’s cheapest. While we can take some comfort that our situation is better than many other nations, there is no substitute for solving the problem of rice and fuel here at home. In doing so, let us be honest and clear eyed – there has been a fundamental shift in global economics. The price of food and fuel will likely remain high. Nothing will be easy; the government cannot solve these problems over night. But, we can work to ease the near-term pain while investing in long-term solutions.
Since 2001, new irrigation systems for 146,000 hectares, including Malmar in Maguindanao and North Cotabato, Lower Agusan, Casecnan and Aulo in Nueva Ecija, Abulog-Apayao in Cagayan and Apayao, Addalam in Quirino and Isabela, among others, and the restoration of old systems on another 980,000 hectares have increased our nation’s irrigated land to a historic 1.5 million hectares.
Edwin Bandila, 48 years old, of Ugalingan, Carmen, North Cotabato , cultivated one hectare and harvested 35 cavans. Thirteen years na ginawa iyong Malmar. In my first State of the Nation Address, sabi ko kung hindi matapos iyon sa Setyembre ay kakanselahin ko ang kontrata, papapasukin ko ang engineering brigade, natapos nila. With Malamar, now he cultivates five hectares and produces 97 cavans per hectare. Mabuhay, Edwin! VAT will complete the San Roque-Agno River project.
The Land Bank has quadrupled loans for farmers and fisherfolk. That is fact not fiction. Check it. For more effective credit utilization, I instructed DA to revitalize farmers cooperatives.
We are providing seeds at subsidized prices to help our farmers.
Incremental Malampaya national revenues of P4 billion will go to our rice self-sufficiency program.
Rice production since 2000 increased an average of 4.07% a year, twice the population growth rate. By promoting natural planning and female education, we have curbed population growth to 2.04% during our administration, down from the 2.36 in the 1990’s, when artificial birth control was pushed. Our campaign spreads awareness of responsible parenthood regarding birth spacing. Long years of pushing contraceptives made it synonymous to family planning. Therefore informed choice should mean letting more couples, who are mostly Catholics, know about natural family planning.
From 1978 to 1981, nag-export tayo ng bigas. Hindi tumagal. But let’s not be too hard on ourselves. Panahon pa ng Kastila bumibili na tayo ng bigas sa labas. While we may know how to grow rice well, topography doesn’t always cooperate.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam , with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. So, we import 10% of the rice we consume.
To meet the challenge of today, we will feed our people now, not later, and help them get through these hard times. To meet the challenges of tomorrow, we must become more self-reliant, self-sufficient and independent, relying on ourselves more than on the world.
Now we come to the future of agrarian reform.
There are those who say it is a failure, that our rice importations prove it. There are those who say it is a success—if only because anything is better than nothing. Indeed, people are happier owning the land they work, no matter what the difficulties.
Sa SONA noong 2001, sinabi ko, bawat taon, mamamahagi tayo ng dalawang daang libong ektarya sa reporma sa lupa: 100,000 hectares of private farmland and 100,000 of public farmland, including ancestral domains. Di hamak mahigit sa target ang naipamahagi natin sa nakaraang pitong taon: 854,000 hectares of private farmland, 797,000 of public farmland, and Certificates of Ancestral Domain for 525,000 hectares. Including, over a 100,000 hectares for Bugkalots in Quirino, Aurora, and Nueva Vizcaya. After the release of their CADT, Rosario Camma, Bugkalot chieftain, and now mayor of Nagtipunan, helped his 15,000-member tribe develop irrigation, plant vegetables and corn and achieve food sufficiency. Mabuhay, Chief!
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Sinimula ng aking ama ang land reform noong 1963. Upang mabuo ito, the extension of CARP with reforms is top priority. I will continue to do all I can for the rural as well as urban poor. Ayaw natin na paglaya ng tenant sa landlord, mapapasa-ilalim naman sa usurero. Former tenants must be empowered to become agribusinessmen by allowing their land to be used as collateral.
Dapat mapalaya ng reporma sa lupa ang magsasaka sa pagiging alipin sa iba. Dapat bigyan ang magsasaka ng dangal bilang taong malaya at di hawak ninuman. We must curb the recklessness that gives land without the means to make it productive and bites off more than beneficiaries can chew.
At the same time, I want the rackets out of agrarian reform: the threats to take and therefore undervalue land, the conspiracies to overvalue it.
Be with me on this. There must be a path where justice and progress converge. Let us find it before Christmas. Dapat nating linisin ang landas para sa mga ibig magpursige sa pagsasaka, taglay ang pananalig na ang lupa ay sasagip sa atin sa huli kung gamitin natin ito nang maayos.
Along with massive rice production, we are cutting costs through more efficient transport. For our farm-to-market roads, we released P6 billion in 2007.
On our nautical highways. RORO boats carried 33 million metric tons of cargo and 31 million passengers in 2007. We have built 39 RORO ports during our administration, 12 more are slated to start within the next two years. In 2003, we inaugurated the Western Nautical Highway from Batangas through Mindoro, Panay and Negros to Mindanao . This year we launched the Central Nautical Highway from Bicol mainland, through Masbate, Cebu, Bohol and Camiguin to Mindanao mainland. These developments strengthen our competitiveness.
Leading multinational company Nestle cut transport costs and offset higher milk prices abroad. Salamat, RORO. Transport costs have become so reasonable for bakeries like Gardenia, a loaf of its bread in Iloilo is priced the same as in Laguna and Manila . Salamat muli sa RORO.
To the many LGUs who have stopped collecting fees from cargo vehicles, maraming, maraming salamat.
We are repaving airports that are useful for agriculture, like Zamboanga City Airport .
Producing rice and moving it cheaper addresses the supply side of our rice needs. On the demand side, we are boosting the people’s buying power.
Ginagawa nating labor-intensive ang paggawa at pag-ayos ng kalsada at patubig. Noong SONA ng 2001, naglunsad tayo sa NCR ng patrabaho para sa 20,000 na out of school youth, na tinawag OYSTER. Ngayon, mahigit 20,000 ang ineempleyo ng OYSTER sa buong bansa. In disaster-stricken areas, we have a cash-for-work program.
In training, 7.74 million took technical and vocational courses over the last seven years, double the number in the previous 14 years. In 2007 alone, 1.7 million graduated. Among them are Jessica Barlomento now in Hanjin as supply officer, Shenve Catana, Marie Grace Comendador, and Marlyn Tusi, lady welders, congratulations.
In microfinance, loans have reached P102 billion or 30 times more than the P3 billion we started with in 2001, with a 98% repayment record, congratulations! Major lenders include the Land Bank with P69 billion, the Peoples’ Credit and Finance Corporation P8 billion, the National Livelihood Support Fund P3 billion, DBP P1 billion and the DSWD’s SEA-K P800 million. For partnering with us to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit, thank you, Go Negosyo and Joey Concepcion.
Upland development benefits farmers through agro-forestry initiatives. Rubber is especially strong in Zamboanga Sibugay and North Cotabato . Victoria Mindoro, 56 years old, used to earn P5,000 a month as farmer and factory worker. Now she owns 10 hectares in the Goodyear Agrarian Reform Community in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, she earns P10,000 a week. With one hectare, Pedro and Concordia Faviolas of Makilala, North Cotabato , they sent their six children to college, bought two more hectares, and earn P15,000 a month. Congratulations!
Jatropha estates are starting in 900 hectares in and around Tamlang Valley in Negros Oriental; 200 in CamSur; 300 in GenSan, 500 in Fort Magsaysay near the Cordero Dam and 700 in Samar , among others.
In our 2006 SONA, our food baskets were identified as North Luzon and Mindanao .
The sad irony of Mindanao as food basket is that it has some of the highest hunger in our nation. It has large fields of high productivity, yet also six of our ten poorest provinces.
The prime reason is the endless Mindanao conflict. A comprehensive peace has eluded us for half a century. But last night, differences on the tough issue of ancestral domain were resolved. Yes, there are political dynamics among the people of Mindanao . Let us sort them out with the utmost sobriety, patience and restraint. I ask Congress to act on the legislative and political reforms that will lead to a just and lasting peace during our term of office.
The demands of decency and compassion urge dialogue. Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world. This was the message of the recent World Conference in Madrid organized by the King of Saudi Arabia, and the universal message of the Pope in Sydney .
Pope Benedict’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est reminds us: “There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love for neighbour is indispensable.â€
Pinagsasama-sama natin ang mga programa ng DSWD, DOH, GSIS, SSS at iba pang lumalaban sa kahirapan sa isang National Social Welfare Program para proteksyonan ang pinaka-mahihirap mula sa pandaigdigang krisis, and to help those whose earnings are limited by illness, disability, loss of job, age and so on—through livelihood projects, microfinance, skills and technology transfer, emergency and temporary employment, pension funds, food aid and cash subsidies, child nutrition and adult health care, medical missions, salary loans, insurance, housing programs, educational and other savings schemes, and now cheaper medicine—Thanks to Congress.
The World Bank says that in Brazil , the income of the poorest 10% has grown 9% per year versus the 3% for the higher income levels due in large part to their family stipend program linking welfare checks to school attendance. We have introduced a similar program, Pantawid Pamilya.
Employers have funded the two increases in SSS benefits since 2005. Thank you, employers for paying the premiums.
GSIS pensions have been indexed to inflation and have increased every year since 2001. Its salary loan availments have increased from two months equivalent to 10 months, the highest of any system public or private—while repayments have been stretched out.
Pag-Ibig housing loans increased from P3.82 billion in 2001 to P22.6 billion in 2007. This year it experienced an 84% increase in the first four months alone. Super heating na. Dapat dagdagan ng GSIS at buksan muli ng SSS ang pautang sa pabahay. I ask Congress to pass a bill allowing SSS to do housing loans beyond the present 10% limitation.
Bago ako naging Pangulo, isa’t kalahating milyong maralita lamang ang may health insurance. Noong 2001, sabi natin, dadagdagan pa ng kalahating milyon. Sa taong iyon, mahigit isang milyon ang nabigyan natin. Ngayon, 65 milyong Pilipino na ang may health insurance, mahigit doble ng 2000, kasama ang labinlimang milyong maralita. Philhealth has paid P100 billion for hospitalization. The indigent beneficiaries largely come from West and Central Visayas, Central Luzon , and Ilocos. Patuloy nating palalawakin itong napaka-importanted programa, lalo na sa Tawi-Tawi, Zambo Norte, Maguindanao, Apayao, Dinagat, Lanao Sur, Northern Samar, Masbate , Abra and Misamis Occidental. Lalo na sa kanilang mga magsasaka at mangingisda.
In these provinces and in Agusan Sur, Kalinga, Surigao Sur and calamity-stricken areas, we will launch a massive school feeding program at P10 per child every school day.
Bukod sa libreng edukasyon sa elementarya at high school, nadoble ang pondo para sa mga college scholarships, while private high school scholarship funds from the government have quadrupled.
I have started reforming and clustering the programs of the DepEd, CHED and TESDA.
As with fiscal and food challenges, the global energy crunch demands better and more focused resource mobilization, conservation and management.
Government agencies are reducing their energy and fuel bills by 10%, emulating Texas Instruments and Philippine Stock Exchange who did it last year. Congratulations, Justice Vitug and Francis Lim.
To reduce power system losses, we count on government regulators and also on EPIRA amendments.
We are successful in increasing energy self-sufficiency—56%, the highest in our history. We promote natural gas and biofuel; geothermal fields, among the world’s largest; windmills like those in Ilocos and Batanes; and the solar cells lighting many communities in Mindanao. The new Galoc oil field can produce 17,000-22,000 barrels per day, 1/12 of our crude consumption.
The Renewable Energy Bill has passed the House. Thank you, Congressmen.
Our costly commodity imports like oil and rice should be offset by hard commodities exports like primary products, and soft ones like tourism and cyberservices, at which only India beats us.
Our P 350 million training partnership with the private sector should qualify 60,000 for call centers, medical transcription, animation and software development, which have a projected demand of one million workers generating $13 billion by 2010.
International finance agrees with our progress. Credit rating agencies have kept their positive or stable outlook on the country. Our world competitiveness ranking rose five notches. Congratulations to us.
We are sticking to, and widening, the fiscal reforms that have earned us their respect.
To our investors, thank you for your valuable role in our development. I invite you to invest not only in factories and services, but in profitable infrastructure, following the formula for the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.
I ask business and civil society to continue to work for a socially equitable, economically viable balance of interests. Mining companies should ensure that host communities benefit substantively from their investments, and with no environmental damage from operations.
Our administration enacted the Solid Waste Management Act, Wildlife Act, Protection of Plant Varieties, Clean Water Act, Biofuels Act and various laws declaring protected areas.
For reforestation, for next year we have budgeted P2 billion. Not only do forests enhance the beauty of the land, they mitigate climate change, a key factor in increasing the frequency and intensity of typhoons and costing the country 0.5% of the GDP.
We have set up over 100 marine and fish sanctuaries since 2001. In the whaleshark sanctuary of Donsol, Sorsogon, Alan Amanse, 40-year-old college undergraduate and father of two, was earning P100 a day from fishing and driving a tricycle. Now as whaleshark-watching officer, he is earns P1,000 a day, ten times his former income.
For clean water, so important to health, there is P500 million this year and P1.5 billion for next year.
From just one sanitary landfill in 2001, we now have 21, with another 18 in the works.
We launched the Zero Basura Olympics to clear our communities of trash. Rather than more money, all that is needed is for each citizen to keep home and workplace clean, and for garbage officials to stop squabbling.
Our investments also include essential ways to strengthen our institutions of governance in order to fight the decades-old scourge of corruption. I will continue to fight this battle every single day. While others are happy with headlines through accusation without evidence and privilege speeches without accountability, we have allocated more than P3 billion – the largest anti-graft fund in our history – for real evidence gathering and vigorous prosecution.
From its dismal past record, the Ombudsman’s conviction rate has increased 500%. Lifestyle checks, never seriously implemented before our time, have led to the dismissal and/or criminal prosecution of dozens of corrupt officials.
I recently met with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US agency that provides grants to countries based on governance. They have commended our gains, contributed P1 billion to our fight against graft, and declared us eligible for more grants. Thank you!
Last September, we created the Procurement Transparency Group in the DBM and linked it with business, academe, and the Church, to deter or catch anomalies in government contracts.
On my instruction, the BIR and Customs established similar government-civil society tie-ups for information gathering and tax evasion and smuggling monitoring.
More advanced corruption practices require a commensurate advances in legislative responses. Colleagues in Congress, we need a more stringent Anti-Graft Act.
Sa pagmahal ng bilihin, hirap na ang mamimili – tapos, dadayain pa. Dapat itong mahinto. Hinihiling ko sa Kongreso na magpasa ng Consumer Bill of Rights laban sa price gouging, false advertising at iba pang gawain kontra sa mamimili.
I call on all our government workers at the national and local levels to be more responsive and accountable to the people. Panahon ito ng pagsubok. Kung saan kayang tumulong at dapat tumulong ang pamahalaan, we must be there with a helping hand. Where government can contribute nothing useful, stay away. Let’s be more helpful, more courteous, more quick.
Kaakibat ng ating mga adhikain ang tuloy na pagkalinga sa kapakanan ng bawat Pilipino. Iisa ang ating pangarap – maunlad at mapayapang lipunan, kung saan ang magandang kinabukasan ay hindi pangarap lamang, bagkus natutupad.
Sama-sama tayo sa tungkuling ito. May papel na gagampanan ang bawat mamamayan, negosyante, pinunong bayan at simbahan, sampu ng mga nasa lalawigan.
We are three branches but one government. We have our disagreements; we each have hopes, and ambitions that drive and divide us, be they personal, ethnic, religious and cultural. But we are one nation with one fate.
As your President, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people’s wellbeing. Hindi ko papayagang humadlang ang sinuman sa pag-unlad at pagsagana ng taong bayan. I will let no one – and no one’s political plans – threaten our nation’s survival.
Our country and our people have never failed to be there for us. We must be there for them now.
Maraming salamat. Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat.
khit pkinggan pa ng 100% ng population ng pilinas ang sona…
wla prin mngyayari sa pilipinas…
dhil,
hndi ni2 mabubusog ang kumakalam na sikmura ni juan dela cruz…
hndi prin uunlad ang pilipinas…
hndi prin mbibigyan ng pabhay ang mga pagalagala..
hndi prin mbbgyan ng trabho ang milyon-milyong katao na wlang trabaho..
wla sa pangulo o namumuno sa ibat ibang ahensiya ang problema,
kundi na sa ating mamamayan ang problema..
kailangan ntin magtulungan, at mg kaisa…
upang mpaunlad ang ating bansa…
after I have read the Sona of president Arroyo,..
there are things that disappointed me,..like
when she said that in 2007 we ended up
in strong economic growth, which I taught
that it wasn’t true,..The Philippines
is suffering from poVERTY AND CORRUPTION…
so how come it happened that way,… I adore
Pres. Arroyo in such way but there are times that
what she had toLD AND PROMISED TO THE
FILIPINO people does”nt happen… =(
wonderful speech!!!!…..
more power..,’
amvot sa imo aroyo…!
sus! i don’t think she should be relying our country’s progress on us. she’s actually the one who should instigate change. how would we even be motivated to move forward if corruption’s dominating our government. she has a lot of promises.. she’s irrationally idealistic. well, i think the first thing she should do is to accept the fact that she really isn’t an effective president. for goodness’ sake. >:-S
may nagwelga sa AC woohh.
i would like to thank you for this early written SONA. this is my assignment and this is a big help. God bless
I think the SONA of President Macapagal will give benefit to all of us.
I have question? kelan po ipapatupad ang walang tax sa emplayodo?
maraming salamat
Is that for real? :)))))))))))))))))) Ugly old president. What the hell!
I love you, PGMA.
The stand of President Macapagal Arroyo on not lifting the Value Added TAx (VAT) is absolutely reasonable, we need this taxes now and even another heavy taxes which can help us to hurdle the challenge of globalization and can avle our government to balace its BUDGET!
The state has the power to imposed taxes since it is the inherent power of the state, we Filipinos must be willing to carry this burden let us pay our taxes honestly. \ it is our responsibility to contribute money for our government “REMEMBER, the Arroyo Administration is not the government but we the people who composed the government our public officials is our agent or our represenatative ONLY thus as Principal being of this REPUBLIC it is our accountability to maintain the golden future of this country.
PLEASE, stop mediocrity let us shift our perspective in a much widen dimension let us support the Arroyo administration in fullfilliong their programs instead of going into Mendiola/EDSA just criticize the PRESIDENT to tell you honestly we have to be thankful that we have a President like President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo she is mighty and intellingent enough to sustain in the throne and able to save this country despite of formidable problems whether POLITICAL and ECONOMICAL..Let us support this administration for the next two years and I guarantee that we will reach the optimum success even as high as china did! “KUNG KAYA DI TAYO MAKAUSAD GAWA NG MADAMING PROBLEMA HINAHARAP ANG ATING PAMAHALAAN NA KARANIWANG DALA LAMANG NG MGA TAONG MAY PANSARILING INTEREST!!!
Wag tayong managamba kung ang pera natin ay mapupunta lang sa ibang bulsa dapat tayo magtiwala dahil ito lang ang tanging paraan para matulungan natin ang ating bayan.!
We have to save our nation before it is too late…Before our feet to be buried in our home because of unPATRIOTICism! “walang ibang tutulong sa atin kundi tayong mga Pilipino lamang”.
I’am willing to receive any comment just email me lagat3007@yahoo.com
enough of your lies madam!!!!!! u cant be trusted anymore!!!
I don’t even know If I opt to believe all of that but one thing I’m happy about
“Mula sa buwang ito, wala nang income tax ang sumusweldo ng P200,000 o mas mababa sa isang taon – P12 billion na bawas-buwis para sa maralita at middle class. Maraming salamat, Congress.”
hope its true!
action speakes more louder than words…!!!
madam press are you sure.. …why is it na ,sa text mo binigyang pansin bakit hindi tuition naming mga studyante………
A big congratulations to the President and to the Nation as well..:)mabuhay tayong lahat.
“sus! i don’t think she should be relying our country’s progress on us. she’s actually the one who should instigate change.”
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utak squatter. utak luma. umasa sa iba para sa sariling pakinabang. TAYO ang magdadala sa sarili natin sa lugar na gusto nating puntahan.
KAYA HINDI TAYO AASENSO DAHIL SA MGA MAKA-LUMANG PAG-IISIP NA INIASA SA IBANG TAO ANG SARILING PAG-UNLAD. ang kinabukasan ng isang bayan ay resulta ng pag-kilos at pag-iisip ng isang lipunan. ang liderato ay salamin lamang ng kalagayan ng lipunan. kung bulok ang liderato, ay dahil bulok ang lipunan. at ang lipunang hindi nagbabago, ayan, talak ng talak, reklamo ng reklamo, walang patutunguhan.
two quotes:
“How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.”
- V for Vendetta
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ”
- Einstein
Pagbabago at progreso, hanapin sa sarili mo!
poor Philippines!
poor Filipinos!
justice should reign!
enough for all the sweet words
politics here so such a mess
everybody’s guilty!
we’re already left behind,
i can’t see
i can’t feel
.. progress!
time to move on..
leaders, our excellency,.. hope you showed yourself worth it to be the one… to be the good mother of the country…
In fairness,
our president is so strong, I admire her for that
though, it’s time for her to stand for justice.
Nakakasawa na mga bad news niyo… kawawa naman kami!
Responsibility and Discipline!
We’re such a loser!
-Goodluck nga pala sa ating president for another year-
hope it would not be another year of famine!
waaaa……
MADAM ARROYO WHAT ABOUT THE QUEDANCOR!!!!! QUEDANCOR HELP THE FARMERS ALOT WHY THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT NEVER!!!!! HELP THE QUEDANCOR EVEN A SINGLE CENTAVO….. PLS MADAM… TAKE A LOOK… KAMI LANG ANG NAGPAPAUTANG SA KANILA NG DIRITSO HINDI KAGAYA NANG IBA DYAN…(MGA BINANGIT MO) DADAAN PA SA IBA YONG PERA…BAGO MAKARATING SA MAHIHIRAP..SANA MAPANSIN MO RIN KAMI….THANKZ..
Mr. Gutang??????
…….”shut up”……..
inuman nlang!!!!!!!
many of us Filipinos keep on blaming the president,, whoever we put in the position we always criticize, What if one of you will become a President, the task of being a President is not easy, magaling lang kayo sa salita mga anti arroyo, kasi kadalasan ng mga Pilipino gusto nila libre na lang palagi. gusto nila ang mga mayayaman magbibigay ng pera sa mahihirap o ang gobyerno mismo ang magbibigay ng pera para sa kanila. Ano klaseng Pilipino ka? dawlims? wala sa pagnulo ng bansa ang ikauunlad ng bansa natin but nasa mamamayan, kailangan magtulungan at magkaisa hindi puro na lang blaming sa current government, kung gayon hindi uunlad ang bansa. Sa mga taong kunti lang alam, dapat pagtuunan niyo ng pansin kung bakit naghihirap tayo. hindi naman si Presidente ang may pakana niyan, ang dahilan ng krisis natin ay bunsod sa pandaigdigang krisis sa ekonomiya. tingnan niyo lahat ng panig ng mundo di ba lahat nakakaranas ng krisis sa ekonomiya dahilan sa pagtaaas ng presyo ng langis… pag isipan niyo ng mabuti bago ninyo titirahin ang presidente…..
Ok ah… ang galing ng sona. Alam nyo mga tol, sa Manila lang naman nagiging successful yung mga projects nya. Dito sa MIndanao, di totoo yun. Yung mga pautang lang ang totoo… pinagkakakitaan nila kaming magsasaka.. Pauutangin ka medyo may kalakihan ang porsyento. Yung land Bank lang ang pinakamaliit.
Ang kulang talaga para sa aming mga farmers ay ang edukasyon para sa modernong pagsasaka. alam namin na di na angkop ang ilan sa aming paraan pero di namin alam kung papaano namin gagawin ang makabagong pagsasaka. Walan silbi ang Department of Agriculture kung di kami matuturuan. Dito sa mindanao, bale wala ang sona. Paki namin dyan. Ang importante dito ay infrastructure at edukasyon. Dahil sa kawalan ng edukasyon, napipilitan yung iba na gumawa ng karahasan pantawid sa gutom na nararamdaman. Dito sa Mindanao marami ang palayan pero dito pinakamahal ang bigas. ngayon Php 45 per kilo parin.
I agree with querube.. and also…….
we should be more responsible para naman umunlad itnog bansa natin..hindi nalang puro rally ng rally, mas lalong nasisira ang bayan natin…hindi naman tayo uunlad kung palagi nalang rally… tanga!!!!
let us be aware of what is the real score of our country.. let us not be blind of the POVERTY that we are experiencing…. but then let us not loose hope. still believe that in God’s time everything will be fine…..
ok i will make a summary of this and some insights (positive and negative)
I think what is important in our country today is the action not the word…….i mean there’s should be a need that the government must take some real actions which are effective for all but not any actions because there’s an action that might not for the common good. We sometimes live in the world of word. When somebody talks about something for the good of all, we decieve ourselves that that somebody had already taken some actions. And that’s what happen to our country today. Many people prefer to talk a lot than to take possible solutions for the problem.
Pwede ba tigilan na natin yan………!
Marami ang naghihirap dahil sa crisis……!
Marami ang napilitang magtrabaho kahit mababa lang ang sweldo…..
siguro yan ang dapat tutukan………
i did not mean that we don’t have to inform the society what our achievements are but note………..parang nakikita ang mga tao dahil sa kahirapn ngayon…..
Oo hindi mahirap maging presidente pero bakit mas lumala ang sitwasyon ngayon compare to the previuos years?
What can u say about the said corruption we hear from the TV or read from newspapers?
What can u say about the increasing prices in different goods in our country?
What can u say about abuses of many labores in some companies?
tumataas ang presyo ng mga bilihin pero hindi tumataas and sahod…..
what can u say?
Why is it that our country now is very poor?
Why is it that many become poorer while only few become richer?
Why is it?
Alam niyo, ang problema sa mga Pilipino?
Masyadong makitid ang mga utak… (sad reality, but true)
Mahilig magreklamo, wala naman tinutulong..
(Siyempre, hindi lahat ganito, pero let’s face it, madaming Pinoy ang ganito)
Before complaining sa hindi pag-unlad at kahirapan sa bansa..
May you just ask yourself, ano bang nai-ambag mo?
May nagawa ka bang productive para sa bansa? O puro pansarili lang?
Kung gusto niyo umunlad buhay niyo, kumilos kayo.. wag kayong parasite..
Lagi niyo inaasa sa iba ang buhay niyo..
Remember that our lives is our own responsibility..
Nagrereklamo kayo sa mahirap niyong buhay, pero ang tanong, gumagawa ba kayo ng paraan? Ang dami diyan, ang laki ng katawan, mga tambay, sugarol at lasenggo..
Sinasabi niyo lagi, kaya kayo walang trabaho dahil walang trabaho sa bansa..
Then you will start blaming our president.. Hindi lang si Arroyo ah.. Sa lahat ng naging mga presidente ginagawa niyo yan..
Let me just say this:
“Kung gusto may paraan, kung ayaw, maraming dahilan” getz?
Tska isa pa, the president may be the leader of the country, pero hindi siya super hero, at lalong hindi siya Diyos.. Tao lang kaya siya.. She can’t do everything in just a blink of an eye..
If you want changes in the country, start changing your own self and life!
“There is only one corner in the universe that you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self.”
ISIP-ISIP TAYO MGA NOYPI.. GAMITIN NATIN MGA UTAK NATIN PWEDE??
well,,another lies i think.. hmn ang galing nya tlga magsalita and i admire her, inded. wat do u spik anyway? she has a brilliant mind to fool us, ryt? but i hope magkaroon na xa ng heart hnd lng xa hah! kundi pati na sa legislative and judisciary,,stop the corution na..grabe na tlga, fyn lng sana ung e-vat pero kun mapupnta rin lng sa mga mukha pera wla rin mangyari mas mabuting tangalin nlang kc ang mahihirp lng ung nagssuffer.. bda..? sana rin e apply nyo na ung re-invinting gov’t. and re-enginering gov’t,,so that we face our problem.. accdng nga ky woodrow wilson we must separ8 the politics from administration par safety.. atleast ma minimize ung corruption.. mas lalong mabantyan.. ung mga pipz din sa legislative pa feeling safe as f d gumagawa ng kabblaghan.. mas worst pa nga kau kayb sa kay pres. gloria.. critic kau ng critic sa kanya pra d mapancn ng mga mamayan ung baho nyu.. stop na plz.. pagtuunan nyo nman ng pacn ung mga mmamayan.. kc worst come 2 worst.. so plz.. behave na poh.
yah.. i beliv to Simbakels Erlalets.. luzon lng nangyayri ung mga proj. nya.. but hir n mindanao nothing.,, dpt pagtuunan nman ung mga farmers dto.. ung agricultural land,, kc dto nman kumikta ng mlaki ung administration.. lyk sa ibng bansa ung pamahalaan rely care the farmers,,kaya nagkaroon tau ng shortge dhil na rin dyan.. as far as i know sa mindanao tlga kumikta ng malaki ang admistrastion tapos sa luzon lng na pupunta ung budget para sa mindanao..anuh bah kya ang dami ng rerebelde.. din ung politician din sa mindanao wag namang kunin ung pera d pra sa inyo.. kaya yumayaman kau.. ang dami ung cars pero d un nman nagagmit just 4 pasikat lng.. dpat ung sa administration wg naman kaung bigay ng bigay, pa mvitigahan un nman kng san na punta ung money..
i am just a student here…
- basing from the science of politics against the real economic condition of the country,
we should not be blaming the Government as if the very root of the dilemma, it should be the so called Public Administration that is…
MRS. PRESIDENT……….Sana inisip mo muna ang sasabihin mo bago ka magSONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hay nako!!! la nang pakinabang ang mga sinasabi ni gma eh???
AMBOT SA IMO!!!
just pls gumawa kayo ng paraan para mawala na itong paghihirap ng mga tao sa pilipinas lalo na ang mga mataas na bilihin,at ang mmhal ng gas at diesel!!!
hay nako!!!
hay nako…pinangakuan na nga kayo gusto nyo pa tuparin…anu ba yun?
Well..I think Filipinos get the GOVERNMENT they deserved. That’s the reason why I don’t exercise my right to suffrage kc wla namang mapagpilian..if we would only vote wisely then this would not happen. When was the last time we had someone who was guided by principles? Panahon pa yata ng mga lolo natin..Magsaysay right???
suporthan nln ntn mlay nio may mngyare?
lets c kun my pgb2go,,
nkta nmn ntn ung ibng projcts nea e successful
so,, ala nmn tau mg2wa
ms mgnda na ung mgtwala..
kelangan ln ntn ng unity..
well slmat sa pgpost nito..
nid q na xe 2,, 4 reaction paper..
tnx!
more power,,
kun my pgk2mli man dte,, pdeng itama at ituwid ang mga bluktot..
evryone dserves 2nd chance..
suportahan ntn xa..
haha,,
isang malaking joke ang cnb q..
haha,,
sus!
m2pad kea mga cnb ni pgma?
haha,,
mukang sa panaginip nln ah?
haha
walang kakwenta-kwentang sona!!!!!!!!!!
hoy wag nalang kayong mag english kung puro wrong grammar din lang kakapal niyo trying hard boooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if we want progress we must start the change within ourselves… regarding the SONA ‘08 of GMA….let’s not be blinded of true and lies..as ctizens we must be aware when to believe and when not to.
agree ako kay bench! mg tanga talga! OMG!
liar! its not true
manhid ka
sinungaling ka liars go to hell
disagree aq paano nia nasvi na umuunlad na tau
xah ang umuunlad sa kakuratan nia puno na sya ng grasya
ewan q sau its depends upon the people reaction
why is SONA inevitable?
anyway, as for me,we should not only focus on the bad side of what’s happening. shempre kelangan think positive parin.kahit papano may ginagawa din naman para sa progreso ng bayan. at shmpre bakit inaasa sa pangulo ang lahat ng paraan para magkaroon ng yaman. we should be like, a colony of ants.wala na talaga tayo, simula pa lang watak watak na e.moreover, there are still questionable projects involving overpricing thus corruption. *which i hear from my political tito*
owwwws…… talaga!?!
walang progress tayo since naging presidente ka!!!!
mas gusto ko pa kung c erap naging presidente……
bhala nah c GOD
im a college student at present… don’t Be an idiot blaming all this problems in our country to our president alone… UMUUNLAD NA TAYO, DI NINYO BA NAPAPANSIN?? BULAG ATA KAYO??? open your mind, don’t just compare our situation to other countries whose doing well in their economy.. HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COUNTRY, NOW THAT YOUR BLAMING THE PRESIDENT??? my goodness.. mgisip nga kayong mga Pilipino..
here’s my comment heheh mejo nosebleed pa ako:
Well, the facts and figures were fairly represented. The plans, if became a reality, will be a great help for us. The sweet words ar very enticing. Ger aims were good but on the other hand, we cannot assure the success of those because of the crises that we were facing, if not the crises, human intervention.
one thing i noticed was, people were tired of promises and plans, they sought action and solutions.Some may have been experience benefits but still not all can and still many people suffered poverty.
may pahabol pa yan:
I hope those promises / plans and solutions come ttrue
HEY GUYS. JUST WANNA SHARE SOME INSIGHT. :0
IM 16 YEARS OLD. AND I DONT CARE HOW YOUNG I AM OK? I HAVE EQUAL THE RIGHTS THE CONGESS HAS TO VOICE OUT MY FEELINGS.
AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED, I THINK THE PRESIDENT IS DOING ALL SHE CAN FOR THE COUNTRY. TOTOO NAMAN LAHAT NG MINENTION NIYA SA SONA, DBA? EVERYTHING WAS BASED ON FACTS, SUPPORTED BY SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF DATA. THEY WEREN’T JUST PICKED UP SOMEWHERE. THEY GOT BASIS.
P-GMA HAS DONE A TERRIFIC JOB, IN FACT. DONT GET ME WRONG, IM NOT PRO-GMA OR ANYTHING. ALL IM POINTING OUT IS THAT WE SHOULD APPRECIATE WHAT SHE DOES FOR THE COUNTRY. THERE ARE INDEED COUNTRIES IN WORSE SITUATIONS. BUTI NGA TAYO DBA? KAHIT PAPANO, MAY NFA RICE TAYO.
LETS GIVE THE PRESIDENT A BREAK. IF SHE DOESNT DESERVE TO VBE PRESIDENT, SHE WOULDNT BE THERE AFTER ALL. THE FACT THAT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO IS THE PRESIDENT MEANS THAT GOD APPOINTED HER TO LEAD THE COUNTRY. AND WE MUST RESPECT THAT. NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE DISAGREE WITH HER DECISIONS.
MADALI PARA SATIN ANG MAG-JUDGE SA KANYA. ANG SABAHIN KUNG ANO ANG TAMANG DECISIONS. BUT WE WONT REALIZE HOW TOUGH THE SITUATION CAN BE UNLESS WE, OURSELVES SIT ON THAT CHAIR.
PARA KAY ARNEL PALADO:
DBA KAYA MAY SONA PARA MAKAPAG-CONNECT ANG PRESIDENT SA MGA TAO???
KUNG ANG PAG-UUSAPAN NI P-GMA SA SONA IS UNG PURO NEGATIVE… TH EISSUES, THE CRISIS, THAN ITS LIKE SAYING THAT THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THIS COUNTRY.
AS THE PRESIDENT, IT IS HER RESPONSIBILITY TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT… “WE WILL BE ALRIGT”. XEMPREH, LIKE WAHT SHE SAID, THIS WONT HAPPEN OVER NIGHT. FOR LONG TERM PROGRESS, WE MUST SACRIFICE.
SHE MENTIONED THE PROJECTS, THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND THE TARGET OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING SOMETHING… TO ASK FOR THE PUBLIC’S PARTICIPATION….
SA TINGIN NYO , KUNG LAHAT TAYO, AS IN LAHAT TALAGA… EVERY FILIPINO, WILL DO WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO… ABIDE BY THE LAWS OF MAN AND OF GOD,…IF EVERY FILIPINO WILL BE A FILIPINO BY HEART, AND NOT JUST BY NAME. IF EVERY FILIPINO WILL WORK FOR THE GREATER GOOD, NOT FOR HIS OWN SELFISH AMBITIONS….IF EVERY FILIPINO WILL WANT THE PHILIPPINES TO BE A BETTER NATION….
DONT YOU THINK WE CAN DO IT?
:)THANX POH ULIT
MISS AINZE…
SORRY PERO… ARE U STUPID??
MALAMANG INICIP MUNA YANG SPEECH NA YAN BAGO SINABE…
DUH. LETS BE EDUCATED.
OK??
KAYA LUMULUBOG ANG ILIPINAS DAHIL MAKIKITID ANG UTAK NATIN. PDE BANG TIGNAN NATIN ANG SITWASYON NG BUONG MUNDO??? THEN WE CAN COMPARE IT WITH WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCEING HERE….???
HAAAAY MGA PINOY! MAHAL KO KAYONG LAHAT AT ALAM KONG PROUD TAUNG LAHAT MAGING PINOY.. PERO MINSAN KA-ASAR NA NOH!!!!
ANONG MAGIGING FUTURE NATIN KUNG SARAO ANG ICP NATIN SA IDEAS AT INTENTIONS NG IBA?
P.SP.
SORRY POH SA MISSPELLD WORDS.. TYPOS.:)
LOVE U MGA PINOYS…!! KAHIT IBA IBA ANG OPINION NATEN… MAGANDA TOH… NAKAKAPAGPARTICIPATE TAU SA ACTIVE FORUM…:)
MABUHAY TAU:)
MGA ANTI GLORIA PURO LANG DADA WALA NAMANG MAGAWA KUNDI MANGGUGULO.. UHMMMM…. MGA GRUPONG MGA BUMABATIKOS KAY PRES GLORIA… PAKI EXAMINE NG SELF NYU KUNG ALAM NYU ANG GNAGAWA NINYO.. PURO LNG KAYO PAGULO SA BANSA… HALOS LAHAT NG MGA SUMASALI SA RALLY NYU MGA BAYARAN…”DATS A FACT”… D NATIN MA PIGILAN ANG OIL PRICE HIKE KASI HINDI TAYO NAG CONTROL NG LANGIS KUNDI MGA BANYAGA… KAHIT SA IBANG BANSA MAY PROBLEMA NA GANITO.. HINDI LNG SA PILIPINAS… KAYA NGA TINATAWAG NA WORLD CRISIS KASI BUONG MUNDO MGA BOBO…. MGA NAG RARALLY PWEDE KAYONG MAG UNDERGO NG BASIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING WILLING AKO MAG TRAIN SA INYO FOR FREE PO…
AT YUNG MGA NAG RARALLY WALA NAMANG ALAM KUNDI SATSAT.. HALOS SA MGA PINOY NA MGA NANGGUGULO AY GUS2 YUNG SPOONFEED… MAG KAYOD KAYO PARA UMASINSO…
START NATIN SA UMPISA
1. BAKIT WALA KANG TRABAHO?
- KASI D KA NKA GRADUATE OR LA KANG EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
-TAMAD MAG HAHANAP NG TRABAHO
-SA DAMI NG MGA ANAK MO WALA KANG TIME NA MAGHANAP NG TRABAHO
-PURO MAG PADAMI NG ANAK ANG INAATUPAG
2. BAKIT HINDI KA NAKAPAG ARAL?
-KASI WALANG PERA ANG PARENTS KASI SA DAMI NYU D KAYA NG BUDGET
-KASI INSTEAD NA ANG MAGULANG MAG TRABAHO ANG MGA ANAK ANG NAG TRABAHO
-ANG PARENTS NYU MAHILIG SA SUGAL KAYA WALANG PAMBAON
-DAMING MGA TGA BUNDOK OR MOUNTAIN PROVINCE NA MGA BATA NA GRAD SA ELEM AT HISKUL KAHIT D CLA CIVILIZE KASI HINDI CLA TAMAD KAY INITIATIVES CLA IKAW WALA
3. BAKIT WALANG ASENSO?
-DAMING MGA GUTOM SA KAPANGYARIHAN
-CRABMENTALITY
-PURO LANG NEGATIVE ANG NAKIKITA
-MGA FEELING INTELLEGENT KAHIT WALANG ALAM
KUNG KAYO NASA PWESTO KAYA NYU ANG GNAWA NI PRES. GLORIA?
KASI PURO KASO SATSAT WALANG MGA KWENTA!!!
KUNG MAY GUS2 KAYONG GAWIN SA BANSA START NYU SA SARILI NYU HINDI SA IBANG TAO..
KUNG MABUTI KAYONG TAO D KAYO MADADALA SA MASAMA…
KUNG AYAW NYU KAY PRES GLORIA BAKIT NYU CYA BINOTO?
REASON NYU KASI NANDAYA, EH PANO KAYO MADADAYA KUNG KAYO MISYO NAG PADAYA..
KAYA WALANG ASENSO KASI WALANG UNITY SA COUNTRY NATIN… LETS HELP THE GOVERNMENT PARA SA BANSA NATIN TO… HINDI MASOSOLVE SA DAAN ANG PROBLEMA KUNDI SA PROPER FORUM. TAYO NAMAN ANG NAG LAGAY NG MGA OPISYAL NG BANSA KUNDI TAYO RIN ANG PDI NA MASISI… KAHIT OPOSITION NGA NAGMAMALINIS… PAREHO LNG LAHAT… D ONLY KEY TO SUCCESS IS
TRUST
UNITY
COOPERATION
UNDERSTANDING
KUNG WALA NITO,… SA KANGKUNGAN TAYO PUPULUTIN DAHIL SA MGA TAONG MGA HALANG ANG KALULUWA SA KAPANGYARIHAN..
SELF AWARENESS MGA PINOY!
if only the President could take me to her wonderland of the Philippine Dream (what else could it it be) which she had mightily talked about in her SONA, then just maybe young people like me could believe her.
nakakasawa na poh laging ganyan pag may mabuting nagawa owkie pag wala naman mas madaming reklamo anu ba talaga ang gusto natin….?
mga balimbing……
walang utang na loob…
my your own business ..
yun lang yun..
nakakasawa na poh laging ganyan pag may mabuting nagawa owkie pag wala naman mas madaming reklamo anu ba talaga ang gusto natin….?
mga balimbing……
walang utang na loob…
mine your own business ..
yun lang yun..
…duh..!!!
are you saying dat u like her..so rude..
she couldn’t be trusted ANYMORE…!!!
oohhmmaahhggooooddnneezz..!!!are u aLL bLind..??
she is a Big LIAR…!!!
so..dont dare to trust her…!!!
vat is only a domino effect, pag tataas ang presyo dapat tumaas din ang sweldo
if we will continue to think that the president can individually make our lives better, we are sorely mistaken. The president’s obligation is to introduce development in our country, alleviate us from poverty and attract foreign investments among others, but if you are still experiencing hardship, that is your fault already because you need to work hard for yourself and not depend on others to work for you
tang ina erap!!! pinataaas mo lang utang ng pilipino
kaya tayo di umuunlad puro negative and nasa utak natin eh. kung sinusuportahan natin ang isa’ isa instead of dragging each other down, mas bubuti ang lagay natin. magtulungan tayo instead of puro tayo reklamo!
# mitch oo!! d2 sa baguio la naman kwenta ang bagong fly over… 80 million ang nagastos eh ang pangit namn ng bridge!!!
hoyboy,
may responsibility kasi siya bilang presidente. hello kanino bang agenda ang pinapatalbo sa bansa? sa kanya di ba? ibig sabihin kapag may mali sa bansa, kasalanan niya yun. agenda niya yung pinapatupad eh. wala ka bang org nung college ka?
at sa mga nagsasabing pagbabago hanapin sa sarili mo, totoo naman yun. dapat kang mamulat sa mga nangyayari sa lipunan. wag lang nating kalimutan na there is a dialectical relationship between man and society. sabi nga ni c. w. mills, you can never understand biography (kwento ng buhay ng isang tao) and history (kwento ng lipunan) without understanding both.
kahit magpakamatay ka kakatrabaho, kung may mali sa sistemang ginagalawan mo, hindi ka uunlad.
lipunang pilipino yung may problema. isang agent si gma sa pagpapanitili ng problemang yun. kaya may sumisigaw ng oust gma.
anyhow, kahit naman siguro sinong tao makikita na full of lies yung sona niya. kahit nga yung makati business club na kauri niya yun yung sinabi di ba.
magsuri. dahil sabi mao, no right analysis, no right to speak.
thanks.. assignment…nausar ko gid ni ya.. thanks assignment
hope ko lng that this year matutupad na ang mga sinabi ni ms presy…
itakwil na ang mga kurakot!!!! wahaha…
hMmn…i hopE soo nAh laHat ng pRomise nya ay maTu2pad!!.at sana wala ng corruption sa bAnsa natin..
wala sa kung sino man ang ikakaasenso ng ating bansa kundi sa mga sarili din natin…
kung wala tayong gagawin, walang mangyayari…..
kung gus2 nyo tayong umunlad, kumilos tayo at mag tulungan!!!!
Do not just blame whoever the ruler right now……
try to analize our situation …………………..
do YOU think the pressident can uplift the economy
without the help of her PEOPLE.start the changes
within your self……………………………………………………..
APHIO your right…………………..
Ms.Marie,
If you choose to keep your mouth shut it seems that you are a garbage of this nation! But, use your mind drifts to come up things beneficial for our country.
“Don’t be too late to save our Naion… Do we need to be an In-Pilipino?”
Kumilos ka!!!
,,,hai nku bmaba kna lng kc!!!!! pra wlng gulo kc knurakot mue na ang lhat ng pera ng mga tao!!!..,,kya ang dming nghiirap ngaun.,,nohh!! mga wlnghya!!!
hayyyyyyy,,, tapos na ang SONA ni Gloria .. lahat tayo may samo’t saring naging opinyon….Hindi naman lahat sinabi niya mali may tama naman ,, pero sa kabuuan ito lang ang masasabi ko….
1. Madam Gloria , kulang pa po ang inyong nagagawa , at karamihan sa inyong naipangako ay hindi pa natutupad.. ang mga datos na naipapakita na ay lihis sa mga nauna.
2. Sa iyong pagkatao alam ko mabuti kang tao , ang problema ang mga nakapaligid sa iyo puro opurtunista at iilan lang ang talagang naglilingkod sa bayan, binibigyan ka lagi ng mga adbays na hindi para sa nakararami. Ang miyembro ng iyong pamilya (lalo na si FG) ay lalong sumisira sa iyong pangalan. Mga lantaran pag abuso sa kapangyarihan sa pamamagitan ng direktang pakikiaalam sa usapin ng mga negosyo , padrino at iba pa…(tongpats, moderate the greed mga pare)
3. Ang patuloy na pagtakip sa mga imbetisgasyon ng korupsiyon sa mga ahensiya ng gobyerno. Parusahan sana ang nagkasala hindi yung lalo mo silang bibigyan ng pabor para d mailantad ang katotohanan. Paano kami maniniwala sa iyo kung sa loob mismo ng bakuran ng iyong gabinete ay kinukunsinti mo ang iyong mga tauhan.
4. Masyado malaki ang pabor na binibigay mo sa mga ex-military . Malaking tanong lang po..
5. Ang mga ilang sa key position sa pamahalaan parang ginawang pambayad sa utang na loob dahil sa nakaraang eleksiyon.
eto na muna
Hindi kami umaasa sa pamahalaan para pagandahin ang buhay namin , pero hindi rin uunlad ang buhay naming mga Pilipino dahil ang gobyerno ang isa sa may hawak ng susi para sa kaunlaran dahil lahat ng desisyon panloob at panlabas ay direktan kaming apektado.. Alam namin ang pagtutulungan ay susi ng Pilipinas para muling umunlad .. pero ang tanong … Ano na ba ang naibigay ng gobyernong ito? ang mga mamayana y said na ang dugo at halos wala ng maibigay dahil sagad na sa pagtitiis ….. Hindi galing sa baba ang pagbabago… hindi rin sa taas ,dapat sabay kumilos at mag abot ng kamay para sa kaunlaran pero naniniwala ako mas malaking papel ang pamahalaan mo Gloria.. kaya kilossss pa…kulang pa ang iyong nagagawa kaya wala dapat ipagmalaki ang SONA..
salamat po..
Though our President is really aiming for the progress of our country, their are still many programs of hers na hindi nmn ngwo work ng mabuti..She keeps on promising pero hindi nmn naipa22pad..ga2wa lang siya ng action pg naki2ta nyang nagwa2la na ang mga tao…hindi q nmn nila2hat pero yan ang mga gawain ng mga politicians…during campaign, politicians keep on promising, pero pg nakuha na ang sympathy ng mga tao at cla na ang nakaupo, yung pangakong binitawan nila sa mga ma2mayan ay hindi bngyan ng action….yan ang kato2hanan kaya khit ilan pang SONA, wala ring mangya2ri….
i think as a student we must respest the president , we vote her as the president of the philippine to lead as to hub of progress ,what i mean is don’t just blame to her all issuesand corruption what the is happened to our economy we are all doing the right thing to become developing country! im not anti or pro gloria m just expanding what is my opinion………….on sona what is wrong to us is salita tayo ng salita di naman alam ang sinasabi!!! …..Before complaining sa hindi pag-unlad at kahirapan sa bansa…May you just ask yourself, ano bang nai-ambag mo?
May nagawa ka bang productive para sa bansa? O puro pansarili lang?
Kung gusto niyo umunlad buhay niyo, kumilos kayo.. wag kayong parasite..
Lagi niyo inaasa sa iba ang buhay niyo..
Remember that our lives is our own responsibility..
Nagrereklamo kayo sa mahirap niyong buhay, pero ang tanong, gumagawa ba kayo ng paraan? Ang dami diyan, ang laki ng katawan, mga tambay, sugarol at lasenggo..
let’s not waste our time let us pray for president and magtulongtulungan tayo upang umunlad GO PHILIPPINES TO HUB OF PROGRESS
summary nung sinabi ni PGMA sa sona niya? kelangan ko ng REACTION PAPER e. >:P
i just want to comment…
sometyms we nid to think that ang ibang tao
ay nalulugmok sa hirap because of themselves..
sila ung ngdecide on what way they shud live..
lalo lng nghihirap because my mga bgay na ngpa2hirap sa tao..
and it involves the system..on how our country runs with dat sys.
instead na mapaunlad ung buhay ng mga tao,lalo pa atang nghihirap..
ano bang mgandang gwin?.analyze all the wrong things…be aware and let
it be heard by the government..the problem is, is the govt want to
here these?..hmmm…
naway mptupad nia lhat ng mga nbanggit nia..
if not,ur always be a liar for us!
Anung kailangan ng bansa?
TRUST = mhirap yta i2. Ilang beses n taung nloko, buksan nyo mga mta nyo. Nag-sorry pa nga sya and that is just an evidence that she lied to us.
COOPERATION = Ang pagbabayad ba ntin khit may VAT di pakikipagtulungan? Nagbabayad nmn kmi khit may VAT ah. Khit mataas kuryente nmin binabayaran pa rin nmin samantalan platsa nmin d2 de uling ang TV nmin black & white na isang dangkal lang ang laki at lapad. Smantalang ung iba dyan, wlang bnabayaran may air-con na tapos ang laki pa ng tv.
UNDERSTANDING = Kpag b ang isang taong alam mo na nagsisinungaling, paniniwalaan mo pa? Hindi magrereklamo? Mamamatay ka na sa gutom, umaasa ka pa rin sa pangako ng iba. Anu yun, ipagsasawalang-bahala mo lng yung mga nangyayari? Kapag ginawa mo un, nagpakatanga ka. Eh kahit nmn ang dmi nang nagrereklamo, tinatamaan ba sya? hindi na, kc masyado nang naging manhid!
Yung mga nagsasabi na ang mga anti eh magagaling lang sa salita, sana malaman nyo na khit kmi, may nagagawa pa rin sa bayan. Hindi perke anti ka, d k n patriotic. Dhil d kmi excempted sa mga tax.
Hindi lahat ng mahirap walang trabaho. Kaya wag nyong sabihin na kumilos naman kami at magtrabaho dahil dati na kami kumikilos.
Differently Normal sa # 29 lahat ng nagbabayad ng tax, mapa-pro k man o anti, may naiambag na and don’t tell me na “un lang” dahil maliit man yun, mahalaga. Remember, d lahat ng nagrereklamo, walang naitutulong.
ahem anti-anti gloria sa #54, d lahat ng anti nanggugulo. Kung 22o yun, eh di sana, d kmi nagbabayad ng tax dba? Eh di sana d kmi lumalaban ng patas sa mga nagnanakaw ng kuryente dyan. Eh d sana d kmi nagtatrabaho at umasa na lang kmi sa gobyerno.
And by the way, d kami nagpadaya. Kaya nga may-nagrally dahil alam nilang may naganap na dayaan eh. Ung sa SONA nya, sana tuparin nya. SANA!
snd sa #64, I totally agree with you…
Man-made problems in the Philippines consisting of poverty, hunger, disease, malnutrition, loan-sharking, cheating, stupidity, overmultiplication, overindulgence in politics among others ante-dated Jesus Christ and His disciples. The Christ said to be the son of God and His apostles did not create any setting that sought to solve all these man-made problems. On the contrary they served their lifetime as model and example of being jobless, homeless, in tatters, devoid of all the man-made desires for luxury, comfort, convenience, insatiable greed for “pakitan-tao”, for status symbols.
No amount of saints, angels, intercessions, priestly robes, luxury-oriented church structures, novenas can solve the man-made problems. All those claims by critics, “solvers”, sothsayers, “wisecrackpots” about solutions to the problems are ALL B.S. Thank you.
sabar tano badn sa badn makala a wata anan… igira mambo a kyakorangan sa vitamin ago tnga a di nyan dn maaami so awidaakal o ingudan na didn makala so kawawata iron…. i n o t o??? makasabar ta ko mapoti a kakaba… na sabap ko kyasabota ko ko sona nyan na nananana malo tano paparo paro e kapaka usad tano.. in english, B U T T E R F L Y yourself to get well. na gyangkoto pman a kyapanabla nyan, na nayno ka kawto mambo si “makawgis” a nomanayaw sangkoto a bansara iyan… B O L O S K A N O KO K A R A R A T A A GINAWA O A W I D A N….
so kelan nga mapapatupad na wala ng income tax ang sumusweldo ng less than 200,000 sa isang taon???????
KAHIT GAANO PA KAGALING ANG ISANG TAO PARA ILUKLOK MO S PUWESTO,..KAHIT SIYA PA ANG PINAKAMAGALING…
NAPAKARAMING PROBLEMA ANG ATING HINAHARAP NA HINDI KAKAYANIN IILANG TAO LANG..
BAKIT BA SINISISI NATIN ANG LAHAT SA MGA NAMUMUNO SA ATIN??SABIHIN NIYO NGA!
BAKIT?!KAYO BA AS A FILIPINO GINAGAWA NIYO ANG MGA RESPONSIBILIDAD NIYO BILANG ISANG MAMAMAYAN NG PILIPINAS??NAGAGAMPANAN BA NATIN ANG MGA MALILIIT NA RESPONSIBILIDAD NA NAKAATAS SA ATIN??
OO, SIYA NG PRESIDENTE NATEN,PERO..TAO LANG YAN..HINDI NMN IBIG SABIHIN NON..IAASA N LNG NATIN S gobyerno ang LHT,,..
KAYA UMPISAHAN NTIN S ATING SARILI..
MAHIRAP GAWIN.,MAS MADALING SABIHIN…
MAHIRAP UMPISAHAN PERO…
“POSIBLE”
totoo nga na hindi tayo nakasandig sa mundo, kundi ay sa Estados Unidos lamang!! kailan ba mawawala ang mala-kolonyal na sistema ng ating bansa!,? kailan ba tayo mapapalaya sa kamay ng sakim na bansa!! Ginang Arroyo! sinabi mo na rin na mala-pyudal ang sistema sa agrikultura dahil sa nabanggit mo ang “tenants and Lanlords”, wala ka bang magagawa para masugpo ang ganitong sistema! hindi mo ba alam na malaking balakid ito sa pagpapaunlad ng 80% ng ekonomiya ng bansa na siyang agrikultura.,.wala kang karapatang magsalita!! gumasta pa ng 90 milyon para sa walang kwentang talumpati!!
promises!! are made to be broken!! do you still remember her previous sona? there was a boy left a letter in a bottle? where is he now? what is his status today? is his wish granted that he will be taken from poverty? as of now the filipinos are experiencing massive proverty. we experience total inflation. mahal na kaayo ang bugas! halos dili na tanan kakaon. then we must fall in line inorder to buy cheap rice. how about that!! is the economy rising?!! well we just hope and pray that her sona today will make the filipino nation satisfied.
na nose blid ako s sinabi nyo? kaya nyo yan.
The stand of President Macapagal Arroyo on not lifting the Value Added TAx (VAT) is absolutely reasonable, we need this taxes now and even another heavy taxes which can help us to hurdle the challenge of globalization and can avle our government to balace its BUDGET!
The state has the power to imposed taxes since it is the inherent power of the state, we Filipinos must be willing to carry this burden let us pay our taxes honestly. \ it is our responsibility to contribute money for our government “REMEMBER, the Arroyo Administration is not the government but we the people who composed the government our public officials is our agent or our represenatative ONLY thus as Principal being of this REPUBLIC it is our accountability to maintain the golden future of this country.
PLEASE, stop mediocrity let us shift our perspective in a much widen dimension let us support the Arroyo administration in fullfilliong their programs instead of going into Mendiola/EDSA just criticize the PRESIDENT to tell you honestly we have to be thankful that we have a President like President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo she is mighty and intellingent enough to sustain in the throne and able to save this country despite of formidable problems whether POLITICAL and ECONOMICAL..Let us support this administration for the next two years and I guarantee that we will reach the optimum success even as high as china did! “KUNG KAYA DI TAYO MAKAUSAD GAWA NG MADAMING PROBLEMA HINAHARAP ANG ATING PAMAHALAAN NA KARANIWANG DALA LAMANG NG MGA TAONG MAY PANSARILING INTEREST!!!
Wag tayong managamba kung ang pera natin ay mapupunta lang sa ibang bulsa dapat tayo magtiwala dahil ito lang ang tanging paraan para matulungan natin ang ating bayan.!
We have to save our nation before it is too late…Before our feet to be buried in our home because of unPATRIOTICism! “walang ibang tutulong sa atin kundi tayong mga Pilipino lamangâ€.
I’am willing to receive any comment just email me lagat3007@yahoo.com
bryan jabeguero on July 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
ITO LANG ANG MASASABI KO?
1.IF THE CONDITION IS TO DO AN IMPOSSILBLE OR ILLEGAL THING,BOTH THE OBLIGATION AND CONDITION ARE VOID.
2.IF THE CONDITION IS NEGATIVE,THAT IS, NOT TO DO AN ILLEGAL THING ,BOTH THE CONDITION AND OBLIGATION ARE VALID
3.IFV THE CONDITION IS NEGATIVE,THAT IS, NOT TO DO THE IMPOSSSIBLE ,JUST DISREGARD THE CONDITION BUT THE OBLIGATION REMAINSS.
NA INTINDIHAN NYU BA NOSE BLID KAYO NO, WAG NA KAYUNG MAG PRETEND?KUNG NA GETS NYU
TXT ME09184893067,
if we will continue to think that the president can individually make our lives better, we are sorely mistaken. The president’s obligation is to introduce development in our country, alleviate us from poverty and attract foreign investments among others, but if you are still experiencing hardship, that is your fault already because you need to work hard for yourself and not depend on others to work for you
i am with mr. gutang! i think he has a point. f we wil just help each other, i think it is not possiple to save this country….why not try and give trust to the leader of our government?. instead of talking the problems, why not find solutions to it?? i think that’s much better!
pambihira….tsk..tsk..kahit sino nmang presidente ang umupo reklamo tyo ng reklamo,protest ng protest,kng puede nga people power aabot na ng 100 eh…hay…aminin na ntin na mrami tlagang pinoy ang tamad,batugan,lasenggero,krisis dw pero plaging puno ang mga malls,bars,restaurants,khit walang mkain basta havaianas lng ang flip flops,mhilig magpackat khit kakarampot ang pera…hinaluan pa ng mga politikong corrupt,ksali nrin ang ibang nanrarabaho sa gobyerno. tnx congress tlga ha? eh nagmistulang oscar ang SONA,pabongagahan ng damit,mga signatured brands,paramihan ng maga2rang sasakyan samntalang ang distrito nla naghihirap na. ang iba sugarol pah! aabot hanggang vegas. ang mge nsa kongreso nagpapalaki lng ng tyan nla. bakasyon d2 bakasyon dun…hindi cla dpat pasalamatan ng pangulo,lahat cla sakim!!!
all i can say as ive watch the video and read the speech of the Prsident. Take a look on our country??? what was the real score is the poverty???
how can we cope up with this kind of situation.. ?? if only the government will boost up its resources to derve the Filipino in a better plan.. I can see there are too much corruption?? Because the money are at stake??? I agree and thank for those kind of program subsidies such asthe NFA but still other areas are not been able to feed with this subsidies?? government must look to this society?? We only just dont talk.. we must plan for action..live again with better economic growth.. thanks!!!
kahit anu pa sabihin nu jan isa lang ang punto ng lhat, ang mapalitan si gloria, pabagsakin, at palitan ng mas karapat dapat sa pwesto, kahit anu pang tulong2 yan walang mangyayari kung siya mismo ang gumagawa ng mga bagay na mas ngpapahirap sa bansa. ibgsak na yan.
naku po gloria luma na yan!!!
.MAGRESiGN KA NA LANG!!!
.NO KWENTS KA..!!
.KUNG SANA TATANGGALIN MO YUNG VAT MARAMI SAYONG MATUTUWA..
.AT PWEDE SANA TANGGALIN NA YUNG VAT KASI MAS MAHAL UNG VAT KAYSA SA KINAKAIN NAMIN..
.AT ISA PA UNG GASOLINA,
IKAW ANG MAY KASALANAN KURAKOT KA KASI EH!!!
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…♥♥hi gloria we ms you xo much…..i want 2 kill you….kowk….your my fevorite precident….kya lng bkt lgi kng nka ngti..bka 2loy mahulog pustso mo…hahaha…keep the good work…..kya lng stoped currapting,,tnx…………….ANG LIIT MOH…..LAPAD NG GILQGIID MO AS IN……
GL0RiA KUNG BiBiGYAN KITA NG MARKA 50 HGEHEHEHHBE
aus nmn pero di ko alam ang dapat sabihin
hehehe…
for me lang ha… we can achieve this goal if we strive hard and give our efforts to help the government instead of just relying to the government alone..
kulang nlng kasi yung help ng mga filipino people para mangyari tong mga promises nya… hehe
kung magparticipate kaya tayo sa mga programs nya?!
kay cge lang man gud mog tanga-tanga….. tinuod biya na dapat dili jud ta always mag salig sa gobyerno… kay sa tinuod lang… minor role lang kaya ang government sa economy… ang major role jud kay ang market…. kaya kita jud ang maglihok…
for me, sana command type nlng ang economic system natin.. kung sa economy ang pagbabasehan, yung time ni marcos, diba naging 1 is to 1 and peso dollar rate.
kato lang akong maingon…hehehe
^.^
do they really have to clap in between lines? hmm…
SANA LHAT NG NSV NYA MANGYARI!!!!!!!!!!!
pwd ask??.. pAsagOt pLz!!!!! ^_~
1. tugma ba ang kanyang SONA sa tunay na nangyayari sa ating bansa?
2.Sa tingin nyo, matatamo ba natin ang kanyang mga inaasahang gagawin?
3.Ano ang implikasyon nito sa ating ekonomiya?
——— nid cOment abOut diz,, kAya pkiSagOt hUh..?? ———– thx
~~GO PILIPINOS GO~~
hi po sa lahat. can u help me do my project?
wat are the problems of our country that pgma dd nit addressed on her sona?
plz ans.. need your help for my project..
tnx a lot god bless
mwuah..
si gloria ang daming satsat di naman natutupad! tulad na lang nung text .50 centavos na daw? piso pa rin eh! tapos sinabi niya pa na she care for those teachers , ofws, bla bla blah, sinunggaling ka gloria! kung nagaaalala ka pala sa mga kapwa mo pilipino sana di ka na nangungurakot!
everyone has there own opinion,
I’ve read a lot of shout out and as i notice some really give they have in mind and some just write for the sake of just writing.
we Filipinos have a great part to take for the country’s so called-development. we can’t just give the job to few people, we though as a student nor a simple person should have a chance take a risk on helping the Philippines. by this time we must not see the country’s administration or the government itself, but we must look at it as ourselves. we all deserve to have respect and to be taken care of like our country, it deserved to be respected and to taken care of. we cant blame anyone but ourselves for not taking are part on helping ourselves nor our Philippines.
as a citizen of the philippines, we have the right to be aware of everything that is happening to our country… however, we also have to consider and remember that our president, Gloria M.Arroyo is just a human being. even if she is the president of the Philippines, it doesn’t mean that we have to blame everything to her. it’s not only the president who is corrupt;if it’s true, why not look to the ddper side of the story. does it really mean that she alone is doing it???
there are still many people out there who are corrupt..
hay nako puro kasinunghalingan! kapal ng mukha at may gana pang magmalaki sa mga nagawa ng mga tuta nya. Sana makarma xa. Have mercy on your soul.
Gloria gloria gloria stop lying just do your part and your job as a president un lng aman eh wag nang haluan pa ng kung anoh anong kabulastugan.,.,
promises are made to be broken…………
SINO BANG PERFECT????
SAGUTIN NIYO NGA IYAN.
PERFECT KA BA?
OO, IKAW. IKAW NA NAGBABASA NITO. IKAW NA NAGCOMMENT SA TAAS.
PERFECT KA BA??
KAPAG IKAW ANG NAGING PRESIDENTE….SIGURADO KA BANG UUNLAD ANG BANSA????
MGA PILIPINO! GUMISING TAYO!! KAYA HINDI UMUUNLAD ANG PILIPINAS KASI LAHAT TAYO, NAGSISISIHAN…
“…ETONG SI GANITO, GANYAN ANG GINAGAWA…SI ANU NAMAN PERO NALANG GANITO… SIYA LAGING GANYAN….”
EH IKAW????
ANONG CINOCONTRIBUTE MO SA WELFARE NG BANSA?????
LAHAT TAYO KUMILOS.
PARA LAHAT TAYO UMUNLAD.
kaya nga di nagtataas ng sweldo e.
isipin nio nalang,in a business-minded point of view, kia tinaas ang bilihin para makabawi dahil nagtaas ang sinasabing cause ng lahat ng pagmamahal sa market which is langis.e kung negosyante ka at tinaas mo ung sweldo e di parang wala lng din di ka din nakabawi.kasi yung dapat na profit nabigay mo din sa manggagawa.
I’m not a big GMA supporter. (Well, actually, I’m not a supporter at all heheh.) Pero I don’t blame her nman sa lahat ng pangit na nangyayari sa bansa natin.
**The government alone cannot bring our country to progress. Sa halip na reklamo tayo ng reklamo ng reklamo sa bawat kilos ni Arroyo bakit nlang tayo ung magstart na kumilos.
Sure, maraming nagawang hindi maganda ang gov, pero ano bng gngwa ntin?
Pansin ko lng, maraming tao ang nagfocus dun sa sinabi nya sa SONA na 50c na text(which turned out to be a promo na hanggang October lang).
_tnk u very much ngkaron kmi ng assignment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, hindi naman ito issue ng SONA eh.. ang issue tlga e yung mga sarili ntin.. though given n yung ibang mga reasons ng crisis dito satin like corruction and etc.. pero dapat in our own little way ay nagawa tayo ng action. sabi nga kahit maliit na action pag pinagsamasama ay magiging malaki n din.. the problem here is not you or the president, the problem is on us, the PILIPINO’s.. konting sikap naman mga kababayan.. kaya p nating umunlad, its not too late to start right?? kaya pa yan need lang ntin tulungan ang isat isa..walang mangyayari kung hindi tayo kikilos at magsasalita na lang ng magsasalita..tama yun action speaks louder than words pero applicable to sa lahat db? hindi lang sa liderato.. hindi ako pro or anti Gloria.. i just want OUR country to be back on the right track again in which it will ensure all the needs of our fellow filipino.. wag n lang tayong magaksaya ng oras kasi yung pagunlad wala sa kamay ng isang tao lang kung hindi nasa kamay nating lahat db? ingatz poh tayong lahat..
dnman talaga nag hihirap pilipinas eh tignan mu nga ung mga paninda sa palengke ang dmi dman lng nauubos kc walang taung pera..
ay nku!kahit anong svhin nya di pa rin ako nani2wala,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,khit svhin pa nating mga ba2gan ang mga pilipino kung di nila nina2kaw ang pera ng gobyerno di tau nghi2rap ngayon,,,,,,,,,
well kung patuloy naten sisihin ang lahat ng presidente sino na ang uupo?.. ang hirap satin lahat ng hirap iaangal naten.. rally ng rally eh kung nagtratrabaho na lng kesa nagrarally o nagaaral ka nalang mas me napala ka pa.
nasa sariling disiplina lang yan..gagawa ng proyekto.. lalagyan ng public amenties.. tapos binababoy din nating mga mamayan.. wala talgang mangyayari…
puro pasaway pa.. sasabihn corruption.. kutong etc.. well alam nyo walang mangongtong kung walang magbibigay… dapat kasi responsable tayo sa lahat ng bagay eh hnidi puro gobyerno ang sinsisi natin..minsan tingnan din natin kung nakakatulong ba tayo sa mismong bansa naten..hirap kasi laging yung mali nalng ng ibang tao ang nakikita naten.
isipin nyo nalng sa ibang bansa kung sila ang nasa kalagayan naten..maswerte na nga tayo na kahit ng hihirap eh kahit papaano nakakaraos pa din tayo..
dapat lagi tayong magpasalamat sa kung anong meron tayo hindi manghingi sakung anong wala tayo. tsk.
hello everybody lintik na sona itoh pinagawa tuloi kami ng teacher namin ng reaction!!
putik lots of pages
10 strengths
10 weaknesses
10 threats
10 opprtunities!!
plus reaction!!!
fuck
i hae her so much for requiring us to do this!! meron pa xang pinapagawang yaman gensan na what so ever documentation!!
the hell naman oh oh!!
sana man lang maisip nyah na,, mas importante ang may maisagot kami sa exam namin na malapit na maxadoh kesa sa pinapagawa nyang sona!! as if we care about it!!
eh puroh lies lang naman!!
its useless!!
we never had the chance to study in our other subjects just becos of this sona reaction!!
hello,,hindi namin major yang economics moh maam!!!
we care alot about our major!!
its not that we want to just let our other subj. to be marked as f!! or failed!!
but please!!
tumiming ka naman!! wag yung malapit na ang exam
palibhasa!!
gustoh mo agaw eksena ka lagi!!
i hate you ms. vanessa g. balboa!
humanda ka ma aalis kana sa listahan ng mga buhay na tao sa pilipinas!!
magsama kyo ni GLORIA!!!!
hello!!
ungas ka!!
bakit kailangan pa ng kasinungalingan
bakit pa kasi pinag sosona yang taong yan..wala nmn nangyayari sa pilipinas lugmok parin sa kahirapan..tuloy pinasasabmit pa ako tuloy ng report tungkul sa wala nmng kwentang sona ng presedenteng walang nagagawa kundi mangurakot
puntyeta nnagkaroon 2kuy kami ng report sisantehin n c gloria…magdate nlng cla ni fg para wala lng malamig ang gabi kc wet season na
no comment!!!
LABANAN MUNA ANG CORRUPTION OKAY!!!!!
WELL IN THAT SITUATION WE DO NOT KNOW IF THAT SONA OF PGMA WILL BE TRUE IS IT???
Kayo na bumabatikos kay Ate Glo kailangan kumain kayo ng maraming pagpag bago uminom ng sleeping pills sabay inom ng purga o laxative, magkulong sa kuwarto bago itapon ang susi. Ayos!
Waswit, taga isquater ka ba? Ang baho naman ang suggestion mo? Bakit di pa sila maglabatiba ng kumukulong tubig na may kahalong powdered chiling labuyo? Pampalamig ng ulo yon, pare ko, di ba?
mr. gutang…
i do not understand where you are coming from. maybe you need to look around you and see all the sufferings the Filipino people are enduring. maybe you also need to learn that the government we have now is not worth trusting. even the legitimacy of the president is questionable?! haller!
mag-aral ka nga!
whoa,antidi talaga natin..nabasa ko lahat ng comments sa taas..karamihan sa kanila ang sinasabi
a.) pagtiwalaan at suportahan na yung administrasyon sa mga proyekto nito at kaysa naman sa magrally ng magrally eh magtrabaho na lang.
b.)ung iba naman eh puro pambatikos ang binabato sa presidente.
c.)ung iba halatang pro-gloria.
d.)ung iba naman, may masabi lang
iba iba ang opinion, isa lng nmn ang common denominator, gusto natin lahat na umunlad ang Pilipinas
bilang isa sa naturingang “iskolar ng bayan” hindi ko masasabi na walang naitulong ang gobyerno at ang VAT sa min dahil ang mga tax nyo ang nagpapaaral sa mga katulad ko. un nga lang medyo nafifilter muna ng mga halang ang kaluluwa ang budget para sa min kaya mataas pa rin ang binabayaran namin (22,000php per sem,may bawas na yan)
ang akin lang,
a.)kaya ngrarally kasi may nakitang mali at ang paggawa lang ng ingay ang makakakuha sa attensyon ng gobyerno.yeah masaya sana kung lahat nagtutulungan,tulungan natin ung gobyerno,magsimula sa maliit na paraan dahil hindi naman lahat tayo eh makakapunta sa malacanang.kahit ung simpleng hindi mo pagtatapon ng basura sa kalsada at pagsunod sa batas,mahirap ba un?
b.)kahit ilang tonelada pa ng batikos ang ibato nyo walang mangyayari,hindi naman magiging pera yan eh.hindi ako pro-gloria, nagsasawa na lang sa mga yan na paulit ulit,kung mambabatikos,lahatin nyo na wag iisa hindi lang naman siya ang may problema eh
c.)salamat sa pagsuporta nyo sa presidente natin pero tanggapin nyo na ang katotohanan, marami talagang anumalya ang administrasyon(wala na akong masabi)
d.)isa pang dahilan kung bakit hindi tayo uunlad, isang simpleng pakita ng mga nagbasa sa page na to at nagcomment pero walang laman ang comment, parang may masabi lang, parang mga walang pakialam sa nangyayari satin, maraming walang pakialam,maraming walang ikikilos
yan ay opinyon ng isang magaaral sa unang taon ng kursong agham pampulitika, ung mga nagaaway sa taas, tama na,kanya kanya tayo ng opinion
haya.An na natin si Pres. Arroyo, hanggang 2010 nlang siya…Para tumahimik ang Phils. tumahimik na rin kayo. Wla nang rally, mas lalong gugulo na ang bansa. Wal ring magagawa yan. Kahit anong gawin natin siya ang Presidente ng bansa so wala tayong magagawa sa desisyon niya.
all i want to do is to pray for the whole philippines and also do my part as a filipino. Godbless to the president and to all who made their reply here,just do your part also. do not blame to others what you think is happening on our country.i am not in favor to anyone.Godbless again.
All i can say about the speech of our president last july is, it is a great honor for us filipinos having a responsible and good president because she is a great president or a great leader for us filipino, so let us respect her, because “RESPECT IS WHAT WE OWE” un lang po, thamks.
bago nyo pansinin ang muta ng iba, tgnan nyo muna mata nyo kung may muta din kayo.gets.
our problem is not in the economy, government.etc.
its in our hearts.
if all of us knows how to value evry lil thing in this world,
and if we know how to be satisfied.
and if we have compassion for everyone, anyone in the community.
this wont hapen.
the world is sinful.
and the wages of sin is death.
thats why d world is dying.
bcoz we sinned.
sin is responsible for all of this.
sin kills.
how to have life?
if we have Jesus in ou lives.
we wil hav life.
coz Jesus is the way the truth and the life.
think about it.
cguro u wil all think na dis is korni”
well, think again.
Godbless.^_^
hahahaha!! gawin mu na lang wag mu na sabihin!! :))
hoi,…..Gloria Macapal ang Ulo!!!!
wa kay ayo!!!!! ge pa project na nuon mi aning SONA na wlay ayo!!!!
ipa positive pa jud ang reaction!!!
puros man tawn ka negative uie!!!
WA KAY AYO!!!
periodical test na raba namo!!!!!!
man dli ko ka tuon kay tungod mag cgeg huna2x kng unsay positive na reaction!!!!!… puros man tawn ka negative uie!!!!!!
puro salita kulang naman sa gawa!!!!!
hindi ko naiintindihan ang SONA moh!!!!!
I hope GOD will not bless you!!!!!
don;t take care alwayz…..
the problem that we are facing is not the goverment, not the corrupt officials, not rapid increase in price, and not evrythong, THE PROBLEM IS US, TAYO, KITANG TANAN. we dont know ow to appreciate and do what we can to overcome our defficiencies. we are not humans if we cant handle problems. REMEMBER THat WE aRE THE ONEs Who create OUR PROBLEMS WE ALL Should be the ones to SOLVED.
Sabihin na nating may mali ang president natin,
pero naisip na ng mga tao na may mali din sila?
Kahirapan!
isinisisi yan sa gobyerno!
bakit money machine ba sila para bigyan magbigay ng pera?
kulang na nga ang mga kinukurakot nila, hihingi pa kayo!
i just wannna say what i want to say. ……………………………………
I HATE YOU GLORIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>:(
Bilang isang estudyante, nabatid ko ang paghihirap ng bayan.Hindi natin ko rin maikakaila ang pagtaas ng lahat ng mga bilihin.Ngunit bakit ganoon ang naging reaction ng lahat ab out sa ating pangulo?Imbis na magtulungan ang lahat ay wala silang ginawa kundi magreklamo ng magreklamo!Hindi madali ang maging isang leader kung ang mga nasasakupan nito”y walang cooperasyon,walang pagtitiwala at asa ng asa hindi naman kumikilos.Lahat nalang ng kamalasan sa buhay ay binabato sa ating pangulo.Kailangan ng lahat na maging open-minded sa lahat ng bagy.Huwag nating isisi sa kanya,bakit hindi natin tingnan ang mga magagandang bagay na kanyang nagawa at hindi ang mga hindi niya kayang gawin ng madalian upANG MAKAREALIZE ANG lahat kung ano ang ating maitutulong at hindi kung ano ang ating irereklamo kahit sa maliit na paraan tulad na lang ng pagpaplano nang pamilya, pagtitipid ng kuryente ,pagsunod sa lahat ng patakaraan sa kahit anong bagay.Parati kong itinatanong sa aking sarili na bakit pa nila niluklok ang pangulo kung di rin naman sila magiging faollowerrs nito.Kailangan kahit s maliit na bagay ay tumulong tayo kung anong mayroon ka na wala sa iba dapat ishare natin ito sa kanila sapagkat wala naman halkaga ang lahat ng bagay sa mundo dahil ito ang nagsisilbing training ground nating lahat ,para makarating sa langit.Tanging ang ama lamang ang may alam ng lahat ng ating tunay na dinadanas.Pagsubok lang ang lahat ng ito mga kababayan,siguro nakita niya na wala na tayong pagkakaisa kaya ibinigay niya itong pagsubok .Kaya kailangan rin nating kumilos, gumawa ng tama at ng di milagro,kumilos at hiundi reklamo ng reklamo.Ayaw mo nga pangulo eh! ikaw ba ay may nagawa para makaahon ka sa kahirapan?Iyan lamang at maraming salamat………..
For me ang mga taong patuloy na nag-iisip ng masama sa pangulo ay iyong mga tao na hindi intelehente, walang pakialam sa mudo kundi kung paano lang siya makakasurvive ng mag-isa.Kaya siguro dapat tayong maging cooperative at supportive sa lahat ng bagay kung tama naman at ikauunlad ng lahat!
kailangan din ay marunong tayong humawak sa ating mga dila.Huwag kang magcocoment o magbibigay ng mga paratang sa ibang tao.Dapat ay isipin muna nating maigi,suriin at alamin kung bakit ganoon b4 ka palang aaksyon.Ang mga kabataan kasi ngayon ay wala ng poaghahalaga sa lahat ng bagay.Gastos dyan at gastos doon,barkada ng barkada ,lakwatsa ng lakwatsa parang one day millionaire! kailangan ngayon palang ay maging palaisip na tayo about s ating future,ang kapakanan ng buong pamilya ay ating bigyang pansin,pagmamahaln ay mahalaga,paguunawaan.Kailangan ay sa gawa rin hindi puro salita para may pagbabago naman sa ating buhay sa pagsstay natin dito sa mundo.Paglayo sa mga masasamang bisyo ay mahalaga para hindi tayo maging dagadag problema ng bayan at ng lahat.Sana magets ninyong lahat ang sinabi ko at makaenlighten sa mga pag-iisip ninyo……….
,,,puro sona wala namang kwenta…
hindi kami nakakakita ng pag-unlad sa ating bansa..
puro pangako wala namang pagbabago..!!
walang sinuman ang maniniwala kahit gaano pa kahaba ang sona ng ating pangulo kung hindi rin naman makikitaan ito ng pagbabago…
Just a few months ago, we ended 2007 with the strongest economic growth in a generation. Inflation was low, the peso strong and a million new jobs were created. We were all looking to a better, brighter future.
Because tough choices were made, kumikilos na ang bayan sa wakas. Malapit na sana tayo sa pagbalanse ng budget. We were retiring debts in great amounts, reducing the drag on our country’s development, habang namumuhunan sa taong bayan.
Biglang-bigla, nabaligtad ang ekonomiya ng mundo. Ang pagtalon ng presyo ng langis at pagkain ay nagbunsod ng pandaigdigan krisis, the worst since the Great Depression and the end of World War II. Some blame speculators moving billions of dollars from subprime mortgages to commodities like fuel and food. Others point of the very real surge in demand as millions of Chinese and Indians move up to the middle class.
Whatever the reasons, we are on a roller coaster ride of oil price hikes, high food prices and looming economic recession in the US and other markets. Uncertainty has moved like a terrible tsunami around the globe, wiping away gains, erasing progress.
This is a complex time that defies simple and easy solutions. For starters, it is hard to identify villains, unlike in the 1997 financial crisis. Everyone seems to be a victim, rich countries and poor, though certainly some can take more punishment than others.
To address these global challenges, we must go on building and buttressing bridges to allies around the world: to bring in the rice to feed our people, investments to create jobs; and to keep the peace and maintain stability in our country and the rest of the world. Yet even as we reach out to those who need, and who may need us, we strive for greater self-reliance.
Because tough choices were made, the global crisis did not catch us helpless and unprepared. Through foresight, grit and political will, we built a shield around our country that has slowed down and somewhat softened the worst effects of the global crisis. We have the money to care for our people and pay for food when there are shortages; for fuel despite price spikes.
Neither we nor anyone else in the world expected this day to come so soon but we prepared for it. For the guts not to flinch in the face of tough choices, I thank God. For the wisdom to recognize how needed you are, I thank, you Congress. For footing the bill, I thank the taxpayers.
The result has been, on the one hand, ito ang nakasalba sa bayan; and, on the other, more unpopularity for myself in the opinion polls. Yet, even unfriendly polls show self-rated poverty down to its 20-year low in 2007.
My responsibility as President is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
Many in this great hall live privileged lives and exert great influence in public affairs. I am accessible to you, but I spend time every day with the underprivileged and under represented who cannot get a grip on their lives in the daily, all-consuming struggle to make ends meet.
Nag-aalala ako para sa naka-aawang maybahay na pasan ang pananagutan para sa buong pamilya. Nag-aalala ako para sa magsasakang nasa unang hanay ng pambansang produksyon ng pagkain ngunit nagsisikap pakanin ang pamilya. I care for hardworking students soon to graduate and wanting to see hope of good job and a career prospect here at home.
Nag-aalala ako para sa 41-year old na padre de pamilya na di araw-araw ang trabaho, at nag-aabala sa asawa at tatlong anak, at dapat bigyan ng higit pang pagkakakitaan at dangal. I care for our teachers who gave the greatest gift we ever received – a good education – still trying to pass on the same gift to succeeding generations. I care for our OFWs, famed for their skill, integrity and untiring labor, who send home their pay as the only way to touch loved ones so far away. Nagpupugay ako ngayon sa kanilang mga karaniwang Pilipino.
My critics say this is fiction, along with other facts and figures I cite today. I call it heroism though they don’t need our praise. Each is already a hero to those who matter most, their families.
I said this is a global crisis where everyone is a victim. But only few can afford to avoid, or pay to delay, the worst effects.
Many more have nothing to protect them from the immediate blunt force trauma of the global crisis. Tulad ninyo, nag-aalala ako para sa kanila. Ito ang mga taong bayan na dapat samahan natin. Not only because of their sacrifices for our country but because they are our countrymen.
How do we solve these many complex challenges?
Sa kanilang kalagayan, the answer must be special care and attention in this great hour of need.
First, we must have a targeted strategy with set of precise prescriptions to ease the price challenges we are facing.
Second, food self-sufficiency; less energy dependence; greater self-reliance in our attitude as a people and in our posture as a nation.
Third, short-term relief cannot be at the expense of long term reforms. These reforms will benefit not just the next generation of Filipinos, but the next President as well.
Napakahalaga ang Value Added Tax sa pagharap sa mga hamong ito.
Itong programa ang sagot sa mga problemang namana natin.
Una, mabawasan ang ating mga utang and shore up our fiscal independence.
Pangalawa, higit na pamumuhunan para mamamayan at imprastraktura.
Pangatlo, sapat na pondo para sa mga programang pangmasa.
Thus, the infrastructure links programmed for the our poorest provinces like Northern Samar: Lao-ang-Lapinig-Arteche, right now ay maputik, San Isidro-Lope de Vega; the rehabilitation of Maharlika in Samar .
Take VAT away and you and I abdicate our responsibility as leaders and pull the rug from under our present and future progress, which may be compromised by the global crisis.
Lalong lumakas ang tiwala ng mga investor dahil sa VAT. Mula P56.50 kada dolyar, lumakas ang piso hanggang P40.20 bago bumalik sa P44 dahil sa mga pabigat ng pangdaigdigang ekonomiya. Kung alisin ang VAT, hihina ang kumpiyansa ng negosyo, lalong tataas ang interes, lalong bababa ang piso, lalong mamahal ang bilihin.
Kapag ibinasura ang VAT sa langis at kuryente, ang mas makikinabang ay ang mga may kaya na kumukonsumo ng 84% ng langis at 90% ng kuryente habang mas masasaktan ang mahihirap na mawawalan ng P80 billion para sa mga programang pinopondohan ngayon ng VAT. Take away VAT and we strip our people of the means to ride out the world food and energy crisis.
We have come too far and made too many sacrifices to turn back now on fiscal reforms. Leadership is not about doing the first easy thing that comes to mind; it is about doing what is necessary, however hard.
The government has persevered, without flip-flops, in its much-criticized but irreplaceable policies, including oil and power VAT and oil deregulation.
Patuloy na gagamitin ng pamahalaan ang lumalago nating yaman upang tulungan ang mga pamilyang naghihirap sa taas ng bilihin at hampas ng bagyo, habang nagpupundar upang sanggahan ang bayan sa mga krisis sa hinaharap.
Para sa mga namamasada at namamasahe sa dyip, sinusugpo natin ang kotong at colorum upang mapataas ang kita ng mga tsuper. Si Federico Alvarez kumikita ng P200 a day sa kaniyang rutang Cubao-Rosario. Tinaas ito ng anti-kotong, anti-colorum ngayon P500 na ang kita niya. Iyan ang paraan kung paano napananatili ang dagdag-pasahe sa piso lamang. Halaga lang ng isang text.
Texting is a way of life. I asked the telecoms to cut the cost of messages between networks. They responded. It is now down to 50 centavos.
Noong Hunyo, nagpalabas tayo ng apat na bilyong piso mula sa VAT sa langis—dalawang bilyong pambayad ng koryente ng apat na milyong mahihirap, isang bilyon para college scholarship o pautang sa 70,000 na estudyanteng maralita; kalahating bilyong pautang upang palitan ng mas matipid na LPG, CNG o biofuel ang motor ng libu-libong jeepney; at kalahating bilyong pampalit sa fluorescent sa mga pampublikong lugar.
Kung mapapalitan ng fluorescent ang lahat ng bumbilya, makatitipid tayo ng lampas P2 billion.
Sa sunod na katas ng VAT, may P1 billion na pambayad ng kuryente ng mahihirap; kalahating bilyon para sa matatandang di sakop ng SSS o GSIS; kalahating bilyong kapital para sa pamilya ng mga namamasada; kalahating bilyon upang mapataas ang kakayahan at equipment ng mga munting ospital sa mga lalawigan. At para sa mga kalamidad, angkop na halaga.
We released P1 billion for the victims of typhoon Frank. We support a supplemental Western Visayas calamity budget from VAT proceeds, as a tribute to the likes of Rodney Berdin, age 13, of Barangay Rombang, Belison, Antique, who saved his mother, brother and sister from the raging waters of Sibalom River .
Mula sa buwang ito, wala nang income tax ang sumusweldo ng P200,000 o mas mababa sa isang taon – P12 billion na bawas-buwis para sa maralita at middle class. Maraming salamat, Congress.
Ngayong may P32 na commercial rice, natugunan na natin ang problema sa pagkain sa kasalukuyan. Nagtagumpay tayo dahil sa pagtutulungan ng buong bayan sa pagsasaka, bantay-presyo at paghihigpit sa price manipulation, sa masipag na pamumuno ni Artie Yap.
Sa mga LGU at religious groups na tumutulong dalhin ang NFA rice sa mahihirap, maraming salamat sa inyo.
Dahil sa subsidy, NFA rice is among the region’s cheapest. While we can take some comfort that our situation is better than many other nations, there is no substitute for solving the problem of rice and fuel here at home. In doing so, let us be honest and clear eyed – there has been a fundamental shift in global economics. The price of food and fuel will likely remain high. Nothing will be easy; the government cannot solve these problems over night. But, we can work to ease the near-term pain while investing in long-term solutions.
Since 2001, new irrigation systems for 146,000 hectares, including Malmar in Maguindanao and North Cotabato, Lower Agusan, Casecnan and Aulo in Nueva Ecija, Abulog-Apayao in Cagayan and Apayao, Addalam in Quirino and Isabela, among others, and the restoration of old systems on another 980,000 hectares have increased our nation’s irrigated land to a historic 1.5 million hectares.
Edwin Bandila, 48 years old, of Ugalingan, Carmen, North Cotabato , cultivated one hectare and harvested 35 cavans. Thirteen years na ginawa iyong Malmar. In my first State of the Nation Address, sabi ko kung hindi matapos iyon sa Setyembre ay kakanselahin ko ang kontrata, papapasukin ko ang engineering brigade, natapos nila. With Malamar, now he cultivates five hectares and produces 97 cavans per hectare. Mabuhay, Edwin! VAT will complete the San Roque-Agno River project.
The Land Bank has quadrupled loans for farmers and fisherfolk. That is fact not fiction. Check it. For more effective credit utilization, I instructed DA to revitalize farmers cooperatives.
We are providing seeds at subsidized prices to help our farmers.
Incremental Malampaya national revenues of P4 billion will go to our rice self-sufficiency program.
Rice production since 2000 increased an average of 4.07% a year, twice the population growth rate. By promoting natural planning and female education, we have curbed population growth to 2.04% during our administration, down from the 2.36 in the 1990’s, when artificial birth control was pushed. Our campaign spreads awareness of responsible parenthood regarding birth spacing. Long years of pushing contraceptives made it synonymous to family planning. Therefore informed choice should mean letting more couples, who are mostly Catholics, know about natural family planning.
From 1978 to 1981, nag-export tayo ng bigas. Hindi tumagal. But let’s not be too hard on ourselves. Panahon pa ng Kastila bumibili na tayo ng bigas sa labas. While we may know how to grow rice well, topography doesn’t always cooperate.
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam , with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. So, we import 10% of the rice we consume.
To meet the challenge of today, we will feed our people now, not later, and help them get through these hard times. To meet the challenges of tomorrow, we must become more self-reliant, self-sufficient and independent, relying on ourselves more than on the world.
Now we come to the future of agrarian reform.
There are those who say it is a failure, that our rice importations prove it. There are those who say it is a success—if only because anything is better than nothing. Indeed, people are happier owning the land they work, no matter what the difficulties.
Sa SONA noong 2001, sinabi ko, bawat taon, mamamahagi tayo ng dalawang daang libong ektarya sa reporma sa lupa: 100,000 hectares of private farmland and 100,000 of public farmland, including ancestral domains. Di hamak mahigit sa target ang naipamahagi natin sa nakaraang pitong taon: 854,000 hectares of private farmland, 797,000 of public farmland, and Certificates of Ancestral Domain for 525,000 hectares. Including, over a 100,000 hectares for Bugkalots in Quirino, Aurora, and Nueva Vizcaya. After the release of their CADT, Rosario Camma, Bugkalot chieftain, and now mayor of Nagtipunan, helped his 15,000-member tribe develop irrigation, plant vegetables and corn and achieve food sufficiency. Mabuhay, Chief!
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Sinimula ng aking ama ang land reform noong 1963. Upang mabuo ito, the extension of CARP with reforms is top priority. I will continue to do all I can for the rural as well as urban poor. Ayaw natin na paglaya ng tenant sa landlord, mapapasa-ilalim naman sa usurero. Former tenants must be empowered to become agribusinessmen by allowing their land to be used as collateral.
Dapat mapalaya ng reporma sa lupa ang magsasaka sa pagiging alipin sa iba. Dapat bigyan ang magsasaka ng dangal bilang taong malaya at di hawak ninuman. We must curb the recklessness that gives land without the means to make it productive and bites off more than beneficiaries can chew.
At the same time, I want the rackets out of agrarian reform: the threats to take and therefore undervalue land, the conspiracies to overvalue it.
Be with me on this. There must be a path where justice and progress converge. Let us find it before Christmas. Dapat nating linisin ang landas para sa mga ibig magpursige sa pagsasaka, taglay ang pananalig na ang lupa ay sasagip sa atin sa huli kung gamitin natin ito nang maayos.
Along with massive rice production, we are cutting costs through more efficient transport. For our farm-to-market roads, we released P6 billion in 2007.
On our nautical highways. RORO boats carried 33 million metric tons of cargo and 31 million passengers in 2007. We have built 39 RORO ports during our administration, 12 more are slated to start within the next two years. In 2003, we inaugurated the Western Nautical Highway from Batangas through Mindoro, Panay and Negros to Mindanao . This year we launched the Central Nautical Highway from Bicol mainland, through Masbate, Cebu, Bohol and Camiguin to Mindanao mainland. These developments strengthen our competitiveness.
Leading multinational company Nestle cut transport costs and offset higher milk prices abroad. Salamat, RORO. Transport costs have become so reasonable for bakeries like Gardenia, a loaf of its bread in Iloilo is priced the same as in Laguna and Manila . Salamat muli sa RORO.
To the many LGUs who have stopped collecting fees from cargo vehicles, maraming, maraming salamat.
We are repaving airports that are useful for agriculture, like Zamboanga City Airport .
Producing rice and moving it cheaper addresses the supply side of our rice needs. On the demand side, we are boosting the people’s buying power.
Ginagawa nating labor-intensive ang paggawa at pag-ayos ng kalsada at patubig. Noong SONA ng 2001, naglunsad tayo sa NCR ng patrabaho para sa 20,000 na out of school youth, na tinawag OYSTER. Ngayon, mahigit 20,000 ang ineempleyo ng OYSTER sa buong bansa. In disaster-stricken areas, we have a cash-for-work program.
In training, 7.74 million took technical and vocational courses over the last seven years, double the number in the previous 14 years. In 2007 alone, 1.7 million graduated. Among them are Jessica Barlomento now in Hanjin as supply officer, Shenve Catana, Marie Grace Comendador, and Marlyn Tusi, lady welders, congratulations.
In microfinance, loans have reached P102 billion or 30 times more than the P3 billion we started with in 2001, with a 98% repayment record, congratulations! Major lenders include the Land Bank with P69 billion, the Peoples’ Credit and Finance Corporation P8 billion, the National Livelihood Support Fund P3 billion, DBP P1 billion and the DSWD’s SEA-K P800 million. For partnering with us to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit, thank you, Go Negosyo and Joey Concepcion.
Upland development benefits farmers through agro-forestry initiatives. Rubber is especially strong in Zamboanga Sibugay and North Cotabato . Victoria Mindoro, 56 years old, used to earn P5,000 a month as farmer and factory worker. Now she owns 10 hectares in the Goodyear Agrarian Reform Community in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay, she earns P10,000 a week. With one hectare, Pedro and Concordia Faviolas of Makilala, North Cotabato , they sent their six children to college, bought two more hectares, and earn P15,000 a month. Congratulations!
Jatropha estates are starting in 900 hectares in and around Tamlang Valley in Negros Oriental; 200 in CamSur; 300 in GenSan, 500 in Fort Magsaysay near the Cordero Dam and 700 in Samar , among others.
In our 2006 SONA, our food baskets were identified as North Luzon and Mindanao .
The sad irony of Mindanao as food basket is that it has some of the highest hunger in our nation. It has large fields of high productivity, yet also six of our ten poorest provinces.
The prime reason is the endless Mindanao conflict. A comprehensive peace has eluded us for half a century. But last night, differences on the tough issue of ancestral domain were resolved. Yes, there are political dynamics among the people of Mindanao . Let us sort them out with the utmost sobriety, patience and restraint. I ask Congress to act on the legislative and political reforms that will lead to a just and lasting peace during our term of office.
The demands of decency and compassion urge dialogue. Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world. This was the message of the recent World Conference in Madrid organized by the King of Saudi Arabia, and the universal message of the Pope in Sydney .
Pope Benedict’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est reminds us: “There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love for neighbour is indispensable.â€
Pinagsasama-sama natin ang mga programa ng DSWD, DOH, GSIS, SSS at iba pang lumalaban sa kahirapan sa isang National Social Welfare Program para proteksyonan ang pinaka-mahihirap mula sa pandaigdigang krisis, and to help those whose earnings are limited by illness, disability, loss of job, age and so on—through livelihood projects, microfinance, skills and technology transfer, emergency and temporary employment, pension funds, food aid and cash subsidies, child nutrition and adult health care, medical missions, salary loans, insurance, housing programs, educational and other savings schemes, and now cheaper medicine—Thanks to Congress.
The World Bank says that in Brazil , the income of the poorest 10% has grown 9% per year versus the 3% for the higher income levels due in large part to their family stipend program linking welfare checks to school attendance. We have introduced a similar program, Pantawid Pamilya.
Employers have funded the two increases in SSS benefits since 2005. Thank you, employers for paying the premiums.
GSIS pensions have been indexed to inflation and have increased every year since 2001. Its salary loan availments have increased from two months equivalent to 10 months, the highest of any system public or private—while repayments have been stretched out.
Pag-Ibig housing loans increased from P3.82 billion in 2001 to P22.6 billion in 2007. This year it experienced an 84% increase in the first four months alone. Super heating na. Dapat dagdagan ng GSIS at buksan muli ng SSS ang pautang sa pabahay. I ask Congress to pass a bill allowing SSS to do housing loans beyond the present 10% limitation.
Bago ako naging Pangulo, isa’t kalahating milyong maralita lamang ang may health insurance. Noong 2001, sabi natin, dadagdagan pa ng kalahating milyon. Sa taong iyon, mahigit isang milyon ang nabigyan natin. Ngayon, 65 milyong Pilipino na ang may health insurance, mahigit doble ng 2000, kasama ang labinlimang milyong maralita. Philhealth has paid P100 billion for hospitalization. The indigent beneficiaries largely come from West and Central Visayas, Central Luzon , and Ilocos. Patuloy nating palalawakin itong napaka-importanted programa, lalo na sa Tawi-Tawi, Zambo Norte, Maguindanao, Apayao, Dinagat, Lanao Sur, Northern Samar, Masbate , Abra and Misamis Occidental. Lalo na sa kanilang mga magsasaka at mangingisda.
In these provinces and in Agusan Sur, Kalinga, Surigao Sur and calamity-stricken areas, we will launch a massive school feeding program at P10 per child every school day.
Bukod sa libreng edukasyon sa elementarya at high school, nadoble ang pondo para sa mga college scholarships, while private high school scholarship funds from the government have quadrupled.
I have started reforming and clustering the programs of the DepEd, CHED and TESDA.
As with fiscal and food challenges, the global energy crunch demands better and more focused resource mobilization, conservation and management.
Government agencies are reducing their energy and fuel bills by 10%, emulating Texas Instruments and Philippine Stock Exchange who did it last year. Congratulations, Justice Vitug and Francis Lim.
To reduce power system losses, we count on government regulators and also on EPIRA amendments.
We are successful in increasing energy self-sufficiency—56%, the highest in our history. We promote natural gas and biofuel; geothermal fields, among the world’s largest; windmills like those in Ilocos and Batanes; and the solar cells lighting many communities in Mindanao. The new Galoc oil field can produce 17,000-22,000 barrels per day, 1/12 of our crude consumption.
The Renewable Energy Bill has passed the House. Thank you, Congressmen.
Our costly commodity imports like oil and rice should be offset by hard commodities exports like primary products, and soft ones like tourism and cyberservices, at which only India beats us.
Our P 350 million training partnership with the private sector should qualify 60,000 for call centers, medical transcription, animation and software development, which have a projected demand of one million workers generating $13 billion by 2010.
International finance agrees with our progress. Credit rating agencies have kept their positive or stable outlook on the country. Our world competitiveness ranking rose five notches. Congratulations to us.
We are sticking to, and widening, the fiscal reforms that have earned us their respect.
To our investors, thank you for your valuable role in our development. I invite you to invest not only in factories and services, but in profitable infrastructure, following the formula for the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.
I ask business and civil society to continue to work for a socially equitable, economically viable balance of interests. Mining companies should ensure that host communities benefit substantively from their investments, and with no environmental damage from operations.
Our administration enacted the Solid Waste Management Act, Wildlife Act, Protection of Plant Varieties, Clean Water Act, Biofuels Act and various laws declaring protected areas.
For reforestation, for next year we have budgeted P2 billion. Not only do forests enhance the beauty of the land, they mitigate climate change, a key factor in increasing the frequency and intensity of typhoons and costing the country 0.5% of the GDP.
We have set up over 100 marine and fish sanctuaries since 2001. In the whaleshark sanctuary of Donsol, Sorsogon, Alan Amanse, 40-year-old college undergraduate and father of two, was earning P100 a day from fishing and driving a tricycle. Now as whaleshark-watching officer, he is earns P1,000 a day, ten times his former income.
For clean water, so important to health, there is P500 million this year and P1.5 billion for next year.
From just one sanitary landfill in 2001, we now have 21, with another 18 in the works.
We launched the Zero Basura Olympics to clear our communities of trash. Rather than more money, all that is needed is for each citizen to keep home and workplace clean, and for garbage officials to stop squabbling.
Our investments also include essential ways to strengthen our institutions of governance in order to fight the decades-old scourge of corruption. I will continue to fight this battle every single day. While others are happy with headlines through accusation without evidence and privilege speeches without accountability, we have allocated more than P3 billion – the largest anti-graft fund in our history – for real evidence gathering and vigorous prosecution.
From its dismal past record, the Ombudsman’s conviction rate has increased 500%. Lifestyle checks, never seriously implemented before our time, have led to the dismissal and/or criminal prosecution of dozens of corrupt officials.
I recently met with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a US agency that provides grants to countries based on governance. They have commended our gains, contributed P1 billion to our fight against graft, and declared us eligible for more grants. Thank you!
Last September, we created the Procurement Transparency Group in the DBM and linked it with business, academe, and the Church, to deter or catch anomalies in government contracts.
On my instruction, the BIR and Customs established similar government-civil society tie-ups for information gathering and tax evasion and smuggling monitoring.
More advanced corruption practices require a commensurate advances in legislative responses. Colleagues in Congress, we need a more stringent Anti-Graft Act.
Sa pagmahal ng bilihin, hirap na ang mamimili – tapos, dadayain pa. Dapat itong mahinto. Hinihiling ko sa Kongreso na magpasa ng Consumer Bill of Rights laban sa price gouging, false advertising at iba pang gawain kontra sa mamimili.
I call on all our government workers at the national and local levels to be more responsive and accountable to the people. Panahon ito ng pagsubok. Kung saan kayang tumulong at dapat tumulong ang pamahalaan, we must be there with a helping hand. Where government can contribute nothing useful, stay away. Let’s be more helpful, more courteous, more quick.
Kaakibat ng ating mga adhikain ang tuloy na pagkalinga sa kapakanan ng bawat Pilipino. Iisa ang ating pangarap – maunlad at mapayapang lipunan, kung saan ang magandang kinabukasan ay hindi pangarap lamang, bagkus natutupad.
Sama-sama tayo sa tungkuling ito. May papel na gagampanan ang bawat mamamayan, negosyante, pinunong bayan at simbahan, sampu ng mga nasa lalawigan.
We are three branches but one government. We have our disagreements; we each have hopes, and ambitions that drive and divide us, be they personal, ethnic, religious and cultural. But we are one nation with one fate.
As your President, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people’s wellbeing. Hindi ko papayagang humadlang ang sinuman sa pag-unlad at pagsagana ng taong bayan. I will let no one – and no one’s political plans – threaten our nation’s survival.
Our country and our people have never failed to be there for us. We must be there for them now.
Maraming salamat. Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat.
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let’s face it!,we are xperiencing economic crisis right now but let us not put all the blame on GMA, tayo naman ang may kaxalanan on why things are going in its worst..ask yourself,may nagawa ka na ba para sa bayan??
wala diba..so you better shut up..
lahat tayo concern sa nangyayari,wag na tayong magpaka-idiot..
dinadaan lahat sa people power,we are getting used to it..
lahat nalang ba ng administration ganitoh gagawin natin??
pag indi nagustuhan ang pamamalakad gagawa ng kilos protesta..
kayo ang bumoto sa kanya bilang leader of the country so trust her..give the old witch a break..
kasalanan niyo kung bakit,.!!
hindi ako kasali,haha..
i’m only 17..
arroyo sucks!!!
ano powh ang masasabi nyo sa ating economiya ngaung panahong ito..
plz..kailangan lng powh dahil proyakto namin sa paaralang..
sige powh.. salamat!!!
if really want a change from this kind of system, i think we should start changing the system within us. Start to change our self to become a more productive citizens of this country. let’s give our president another chance to prove her self. Tama let’s not put all the blame on her. Just ask yourself, ikaw ba anong nagawa mo para sa bansang to? aside sa kakareklamo eh ano pa ba?
HI ELAY……. you are the only person who think to change .YES WE CAN SAID President Obama.
1. we change our Presidential corrupt system. ..Yes we can… Pres.Obama
2. we change our corrupt politicians. Yes we can Pres. Obama said
3.we change our corrupt CURRENT blood who are now in our body …yes we can
i am elected by the people and nobody can take out me here except people power..how many people needs to evict you..in federal just only few or parliament is easy to terminate if you comment wrong…It’s time to change..CHANGE IT NOW..PLEBESITE IS NEEDED NOW………CONCERN
Well, i guess many of us are educated enough to know that key to success does not rely on our government alone. We should all contribute for that success that i believe each of us is longing for. We should look first within ourselves if we are doing something for the country. Maybe even just for our classrooms, workplaces and community. Have we done something?
The government is just our front liners. I’m not saying that the government does not commit their shortcomings, of course, they are - we are all human in here, it’s normal to commit those.
Yes, the economy, let’s say it is at its worse, but the whole world is experiencing it! Not just us. For some countries, it is not obvious for they have built foundations which cannot be easily shaken. Let’s stop blaming it to them. Sympathize people! I think, whoever put in the position of Pres. Arroyo will be in difficulty because who knows where to start? And let us not keep on pulling her down. We want to replace her right now, but who will be sitting on the throne now? Is there anyone of us qualified for these position? Is there anyone willing to take risks and accept those blames if he/she has done something wrong? Then if that person commits a mistake, then we’ll use our power us the people of this nation being a democratic country to pull that person again. The heck! What is wrong with us people?
Is there anyone that truly cares for this country? Is there anyone of us who truly loves “Pearl of the Orient Seas”? Is there anyone that cannot sleep well because his fellowmen in great difficulty? Let’s all think about it.
somewhat i understand pres. arroyo but about the economic growth i think its only the rich people whoi feel that thing..it’s good but not good enough/.how about us who keep on struggling just to have enough money to feed our family and send our children to school. we need more actions than this words..what we need is an assurance that we wont end up in tha “kangkukan”.
Mrs. Arroyo’s 2008 SONA is a utopian dream for the philippines
The reason why philippines is not improving because the numbers of uneducated people is more than to the educated one. these uneducated people are the number one disclaimer and pain in everyone’s head.
Plus most of the government establishment were run by incompetent being such as NBI, SSS, LTO, etc. their policy were too shallow. If we really wanted to improve the philippines please be worthy enough before stepping others shoulder.
Come on people you think the president isn’t working at all? you better wake you butt up because her task is not that easy plus you’ve gotta corrupt subordinates spread through out the nations.
If you wanted to have a quick improvements then for once lets not try to think about how shameful are we in comparison to other country because of our incapacity to do thing better.
lastly, please naman kung pwede lang be a little bit logical, do you think the philippines can just provide food and shelter and everything else that our fellow useless brother are longing for without actually working for it? kung sino pa yong dada nang dada sila naman ang walang ginawa but to wait for the grace.
please be more mature in dealing with your problems. and don’t point out others mistake while hiding your very own filthy hands on it.
kaya hindi umuunlad ang isang bansa dahil may mga taong di marunong makiisa sa namumuno,ikaw kaya ang tumayo sa puwesto ng pangulo,baka di mo alam kung anong gagawin mo,kaya kung ako sa’yo magiging mabuti na lang akong mamamayn atleast di ka pabigat sa bansa,di ka kasi marunong magsakripisyo,bago ka magreact tanungin mo muna kung anong nagawa mo para sa bayan mo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
let’s wait for her next State of the Nation Address (SONA), it’s better to pray for her and for our country. hatred and anger will do no good to us. haha. we should start again and try to make changes. government is not the only one who is going to move, as Filipino citizens we must do our contributions in our country. It’s not only the people in the higher positions do corruptions. We, also may have done it and we just don’t admit it on ourselves. I’m not pro and neither anti, i’m just looking on both sides and what are the probale reasons why is these dreadful and continuous cycle of problems are happening to us
I have watched the videos of our Honorable President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo addressing the 1998 SONA - She pretty much in my opinion PASSED FLING COLORS
and I give her a Hand Salute as FILIPINO US Citizen living in AMERICA keeping an Eagle Eye on the SOCIO-ECONOMICS-DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE OLD COUNTRY.
She addressed the MILF/MINDANAO/BANGSAMORO AND IT’S PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, THE IMPORT OF RICE FROM OTHER ASIAN NATIONS, CONTROL OF OVERPOPULATION THROUGH NATURAL PLANNING and HER OVERALL WILLINGNESS FOR THE PEACE, SECURITY AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY.
being in her position as president as appointed by ALMIGHTY GOD, through a democratic process from the votes of the people - is a tough job!…Hell, there are so many people lambasting, criticizing/threathenig her as the worst president…well, HUMAN NATURE is as FLEETING as THE WEATHER AS THEY SAY…we already know the shifting attitudes of the masses through bad propaganda through the media to almost now 100 million FILIPINOS who are UNEDUCATED, UNINFORMED about the workings of the government….say to say that there are corrupt politicians in malacanang that is emulated downstream of the political system to the basic unit of the ‘barangay system’ … as we have seen these masses
has critized the past presidents are worst, THE PRESENT ONE, then the FUTURE
ONE that they have elected….
Every FILIPINO must HELP and PRAY for OUR Leaders who are GOVERNING US,
VOICE OUR HURTS, OPINIONS OPENLY AND TELL THEM what we need, if we don’t
they have no way of knowing what to do, to change…..we need IMPARTIAL JOURNALISM to EDUCATE THE MASSES…we need to IMPARTIAL JUSTICE to all
Public Servant and CORRUPT POLITICIANS, HIGH RANKING MILITARY OFFICERS,
LAWYERS, POLICEMEN who BREAK the LAW of THE CONSTITUTION and GIVE the JUSTICE they DESERVE = ENACT A ‘BITAG’ or THE TULFO BROTHERS WAY OF
SWIFT JUSTICE FOR THE POOR PEOPLE. …we need SEPARATION OF THE
PHIL GOV’T from the RAVAGES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH to control the
OVERPOPULATION….yes, produce more BABIES and MULTIPLY but THE CHURCH DOES NOT GIVE US PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS to FEED AND EDUCATE THE POOR CHILDREN AS A RESULT OF THEIR FALSEHOOD DOCTRINES…they COLLECT MONEY AND HOARD IT IN VATICAN…they never REALLY DO ANYTHING PRACTICAL TO SOLVE THE OVERPOLATION/HUNGER SITUATION …so we NEED
SEPARATION OF GOV’T and the CHURCH…
God Bless to All: May Our Country Be More Practical in Solving Our Current and
Future Problems with US All UNITED FOR PEACE and PROSPERITY to Everyone..
actually, all of the people saying that pres. arroyo wasn’t a great president they were thinking in short way, i think those who can understand what im saying are those people who graduated in business course,
pres. arroyo is really a great president she is not thinking on a short run for the philippines and with the filipino. she is planning for the long run, maybe we still did not feel the increasing success of our country coz it still early to have the effect of what pres. arroyo has done.
her plans are great but with out the help of people around her as well as the whole country she will not be able to implement what should have she done.. anyways arroyo is one of the best president so far behind marcos
Look at those people na nag ra-rally sa kalsada during the Sona or kahit hanggang ngayon na pinapababa ang kahit simung presidente, are they paying a single centavo for Taxes? Never sila nakakatulong sa economy pampagulo lang kayo! Kaya ninyo ipapatanggal ang VAT dahil kayo mismo hindi nagbabayad. Wala kayong mga trabaho dahil ayaw ninyo magpaalipin sa mga employers, wala kayong tyaga, matyaga kayo sa mga walang kwentang rally na yan.
I am not in favor with Gloria nor against her, but i’m just looking at the things in a more balanced way.
Let’s not be selfish. Being a leader is not an easy job. Do not live in FICTION or IMAGINATION. Puro kayo MABISYON wala naman kayong naitutulong sa economy. Ni isang kusing wala kayong nai contribute. Ginagamit lang kayo ng mga taong makapangyarihan at makasarili.