Posted October 07, 2009 19:08:00
With just eight months in office and with huge budget cuts in the 2010 appropriations, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may step down next year without completing all the infrastructure projects that she promised to deliver to the country in her State of the Nation Address
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Posted September 21, 2009 04:35:00
I was not surprised that my son, who is 12 years old, did not know much about Tita Cory or Edsa 1 or martial law. However, I was totally taken aback to learn that many of his teachers, who are in their mid-20s, didn’t either.
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Posted August 19, 2009 01:16:00
This is a reaction to the news articles titled “No clear GMA goodbye” and “She is longest burning president.”
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Posted August 13, 2009 01:14:00
Heavy with petty quips (like a column in a weekly tabloid) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address was light on substance.
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Posted August 09, 2009 14:37:00
Immigration authorities have banned nine Belgian nationals from the Philippines for taking part in anti-government protests during President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address (Sona), the Bureau of Immigration has said.
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Posted August 01, 2009 01:32:00
Hunger in the SONA. The first of two instances in which Social Weather Stations data figured in last Monday’s State of the Nation Address was in President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s statement: “Dahil dumarami na naman daw ang pamilyang nagugutom, mamumuhunan tayo ng bago sa Hunger Mitigation Program na nakitang mabisa.”
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Posted August 01, 2009 01:26:00
Instead of a highly partisan speech by the incumbent president on the state of the nation, our country might be better served if the mayor in every town, and the barangay captain in every barrio, were required annually to face their people and give a report of the state of their respective communities.
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Posted July 31, 2009 12:38:00
One of my students in an economics class at the University of San Carlos in Cebu, Kay Beverly Go, wrote the following when I ask them to put down their thoughts about PGMA’s last Sona.
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Posted July 31, 2009 01:35:00
The most recent Social Weather Station survey, showing an increase in the number of Filipinos who experienced hunger (from 2.9 million families in the first quarter of 2009 to 3.7 million families in the second quarter), is the clearest indictment of the Arroyo presidency.
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Posted July 31, 2009 00:41:00
I thought that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was particularly bitter and petulant in her last State of the Nation Address or SONA.
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2008 ADDRESS
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.
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2007 ADDRESS
We meet here today to inaugurate a new Congress after a fresh election.
I congratulate every elected official, from municipal to provincial to
Congress on hard fought and successful campaigns.
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2006 ADDRESS
Sa araw na ito, nakatuon ang isip natin sa ating mga kababayan sa Lebanon. Nasa kuko sila ngayon ng malagim na paglala ng digmaan. Kahapon lamang, sinalubong natin ang unang dalawang-daang Pilipinong lumikas doon. Limang-daan pa ang mauuwi natin sa susunod na apat na araw.
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2005 ADDRESS
Every year, we meet on this day in this great hall to celebrate democracy
and take stock of the nation: the country and its condition; the government
and its performance; the people and their well-being.
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2004 ADDRESS
Angelo de la Cruz is home. We did it! Congratulations to the Filipino
people.
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2003 ADDRESS
Yesterday, without bloodshed, without damage to property, and within
a single day, we overcame an ill-conceived mutiny carried out by
misguided military officers.
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2002 ADDRESS
In the corridors of power, in the Palace where I work, past presidents
of the Republic sit in their portraits in judgment of me. In this
gallery of the highest public servants, none sits in sterner judgment
than the man who first led me by the hand into the Palace as a teenager.
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2001 ADDRESS
Kamakailan, may sumulat sa aking tatlong batang taga-Payatas,
sina Jayson, Jomar at Erwin. Ginawa nilang paper boats ang liham
at pinalutang sa pasig river patungo sa malacañang.
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