Estado de la Nación 2011

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The main topics tackled in PNoy’s 2011 SONA

-President Aquino vows to end culture of ‘wang-wang’. “To end the wang-wang culture in government, we employed zero-based budgeting to review programs. For this year and the last, zero-based budgeting has allowed us to end many wasteful programs.”

-President Aquino discussed that his administration focus to end culture of ‘wang-wang’ also resulted to a lesser Filipinos who experienced hunger. We have today a better economy, our country will have a cheaper, more reliable source of energy, more honest DPWH, no more over-importation of rice, better benefits for police and military.

-His government lines up new legislative measures for Filipinos to benefit, like better implementation of Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act was signed in 2003, more employment for the Filipino People, good health programs for the poor, his Congress passed a law synchronizing ARMM with the national elections, solutions to flooding problems, his DOST and UP have even teamed up to develop a prototype monorail system for our country.

-He calls on private sector to pay proper taxes…”Today we can see that our taxes are going where they should, and therefore there is no reason not to pay the proper taxes. I say to you: it’s not just the government, but our fellow citizens, who are cheated out of the benefits that these taxes would have provided.”

-Aquino makes a stand: ‘Spratly Islands are ours’ and his government will defend the country’s territory and sovereignty.
Aquino administration ready to submit proposed 2012 national budget to Congress.

-President Aquino appoints Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales as new Ombudsman.

-President Aquino asks Filipinos to stop ‘culture of negativism’ or ‘crab mentality’.

(http://xyvemoney.com/president-noynoy-aquino-sona-2011-speech/82/)

The State of the Nation Address (Filipino: Talumpati sa Kalagayan ng Bansa, abbreviated SONA) *source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Nation_Address_(Philippines)

Our group didn’t watch PNoy’s SONA, but we found a copy of his speech on the web. Upon reading it, we noticed that the first SONA and the second one were just quite the same. He mentioned again about the faults of the previous administration, the wang-wang thingy. A whole year (three hundred sixty five days) is long enough to make several sagacious things for the country; it’s somehow disappointing that PNoy wasted it by doing only insignificant stuffs. It is good news and we’re glad he’s making actions to bring discontinuance on/to the corruption in the Philippines, but it’s just not enough.

“Tapusin na po natin ang kultura ng negatibismo; iangat natin ang kapwa-Pilipino sa bawat pagkakataon. Bakit po ang iba, ang hilig maghanap ng kung anu-anong pangit sa ating bayan? At napakahirap—parang kasalanan—na magsabi ng maganda? Naalala pa po ba natin noong huling beses tayong pumuri sa kapwa Pilipino?'—Pnoy.

Does he clearly understand what he said or have he heard himself when he said that? He wants negativism to end, but how can it end if he, himself, talks about wang-wang over and over again, why don’t he manage his time effectively and give some to other things which are more important than that? He’s becoming superfluous.

Some of the interviews on television regarding the Second SONA of Benigno Aquino III made me chuckle for one said “Parang yung unang SONA lang niya, umulit lang, inantok nga ako eh.” and the ralliers shouted “Tama na ang buladas!” and according to the Pulse Asia survey, his popularity ratings went down to 71% as of June of this year from 80% at the time he started office. Though according to political analysts, 71% is still high for a two year period, it still went down. For some reasons we speculated, it’s because of the broken promises and he never gave emphasis of what are the plans for the next five years of his presidency.

"Kaya po, sa sambayanang Pilipino, ang aking Boss na nagtimon sa atin tungo sa araw na ito: maraming, maraming salamat po sa pagbabagong tinatamasa natin ngayon." --Pnoy.

QSB: What reformation is he talking about? "Buti pa ang Lovelife niya, nakakaranas palagi ng CHANGE."

PNOY'S SONA 2011