insights of SONA

President PNoy's 3rd Sona was extremely satisfying to an ordinary person like me who work hard to support PNoy as president for a specific purpose, that is to reform government leading to peace and development! As the boss of PNoy I am giving him the performance grade of 90 percent as of today. I can stand and walk with dignity that my president has met my aspirations for my country. Finally, the flickering of the light at the end of the tunnel is becoming brighter for peace and development. God bless the Philippines. PNoy's performance is making a significant difference that augurs well with ending the armed conflict by the showing of government’s capacity to deliver basic services like food, health and education. Within these two years, under PNoy's central economic policy Public Private Partnership (PPP), the public has been troubled with unabated price increase in oil and petroleum products, water and power rates. This has impacted the access to food and basic utilities and services of not only the poorest of the poor, but as well as of working middle class. For Bayan, the Conditional Cash Transfer, the 4Ps, the Pantawid Pasada have all failed to augment  the economic burdens of the working and middle class while demands for jobs, straight salary, land and genuine agrarian reform, basic social services continue to be the least of PNoy's programs.We're right. Today's Sona has nothing to offer any substantive agenda for the environment and well-being of the people. It talks about the influx of foreign investments, to be more dependent on these, which set the tone for the push for charter change, particularly removing the protectionist supplies on the economy of the constitution. It means steal development projects for the few elite not for the majority. It's more of the old public speaking and promises. The previous administrations have done that but failed because they implemented the same anti-people neoliberal economic policies of liberalization, privatization, and deregulation, which have been widely opposed by the people.