Submitted by: Arabelle M. Dorado (IR-160)
Submitted to: Jayson Barlan (professor in Pol.Scie, LPU)
July 29, 2011
Our President, Benigno S. Aquino III, delivered his second State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2011 (Monday). I was in school that time so I just watched the video of his speech in Youtube and read the transcript of it. His speech was in Filipino language that coped up many citizens especially the ordinary people who cannot merely understand the English language. I like the way he discussed things and the rhetoric was very good. He actually seemed poetic on every manner he performed. But that's not only my assessment. I'll discuss below my understandings and reactions on the topics tackled in SONA 2011.
The Wang-Wang.
"I stood before you during my inauguration and promised: we would do away with the use of the wang-wang. This one gesture has become the symbol of change, not just in our streets, but even in our collective attitude."
According to our president, the symbol of change in this country is the wang-wang or the siren. He told us that no matter who we are, we are not allowed to use the wang-wang not only in the streets but also in our manners and conducts. In a non rhetoric mean, he just wants us to stop abusing the authority and the privilege. I agree with him that the mindset of entitlement must come to a right approach that no one is hurting when conducting tasks. Change is a big challenge for everyone. Our president challenges everyone to stop the illegal activities and grab the change he wants us to achieve. There's no hard thing when we love doing it so it's not hard to change our bad attitudes (corruption, crab mentality, abuse, etc) as long as we are willing and loving doing it.
In his speech, he emphasizes the many changes we are now experiencing during the start of his administration. These changes are as follows: (1) Fewer Hungry Pinoys, (2) Better Economy, (3) Cheaper Energy Sources, (4) Zero-based Budgeting, (5) More Honest DPWH, (6) No More Importation of Goods, (7) Better Benefits for Police and Military, (8) Implementation Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, (9) More Jobs, (10) Health Program for Poor, (11) Law Synchronizing the ARMM with the National Election.
Clap, clap, clap. I think the most change we all Filipinos want to accomplish is the poverty. If this is the case that many Filipinos nowadays can eat properly everyday, then we, somehow, about to grab the opportunity of letting go poverty. There's no reason for me to question this, because I saw this myself too in my family and the people around me. Though, let's accept the fact that not all are experiencing this comfort so I am hoping that the next SONA of P-Noy will state that every Filipino is no longer experiencing hunger.
I also felt our economy is going better than before. Yes, there are lots of products that rising prices today but let's analyze that this fact is one factor of boosting economy. We can able to leave being a third world country if this process continues even the next administration. Having a better better economy in our country is actually a big change we could acknowledge. I'll wait until 2014 for more better economy and for a cheaper energy sources that my mom would only pay 300php per month.
I see many things will change especially to local officials because of this zero-base budgeting. It's good thing that resources will allocate base on the needs and benefits rather than the history and it will identifies and eliminates wasteful and obsolete operations. Though it will consume more time in decision making (identifying opportunities for outsourcing, identifying their mission and their relationship to overall goals, identifying areas of wasteful expenditure and, if desired, suggesting alternative courses of action), it will still be good for everyone because we know that the project is for a good cause not just because they (officials) want to do something so people can say that they did something. I also hope that it's true that there are more honest DPWH at present time. I wish they'll follow this zero-base budgeting in every project they've come up, not only them, but all insitutions.
"The rice served on every Filipino’s dinner table is planted here, harvested here, and purchased here." Actually, I always question this matter. Why do Filipinos prefer to eat rice that are imported from somewhere which cost more expensive than eat our own harvest which is of course less expensive? I don't know what's good in imported products and what's the difference since we also have these same products not only in rice. Is it the quality or the quantity? But all I know is that we, Filipinos have better quality in making products compare to China, but let's not discuss that anymore. "The rice served on every Filipino’s dinner table is planted here, harvested here, and purchased here." I'm glad with that - no more importation of rice. Our rice is much yummier. Let's not allow foreigners to rule our country not only in the rice matter, but also in many different ways.
I agree with this newly-enacted law, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, that would saves many women and children from falling into the prey of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage, both domestic and overseas. If that's for the good of everyone, why not to agree right? I can't see any wrong with this, so as with the Better Benefits for Police and Military, the Health Program for Poor, the Law Synchronizing the ARMM with the National Election and the More Jobs. I just hope to implement this properly and surely with no corruption at all.
So those are the changes that tackled by our president during the SONA 2011. He is asking everyone why not pay the proper taxes since it will now go and use where they should. "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."
Aside from the changes, he also told something about a very exciting topic, the tension in Spratly Island. "What is ours is ours; setting foot on Recto Bank is no different from setting foot on Recto Avenue." A big clap again for him. I like the way he claimed what is ours and fight for our right to claim it. He also discussed his plans regarding the flooding problems in our country and the monorail system. "One of the possible solutions we are studying is to make the stewardship of these trees beneficial to communities. They will be given coffee and cacao seeds to plant. While they wait for harvest, they will receive stipends for safeguarding the trees planted to mitigate flooding. We are looking at informal settlers, who are currently crammed into our cities, as possible beneficiaries of this program. We will be investing in the people, even as we invest in the environment." ... "DOST and UP have even teamed up to develop a prototype monorail system, which could potentially provide a home grown mass transport solution that would cost us as little as 100 million pesos per kilometer, much cheaper than the current cost of similar mass transit systems." And he introduced the new ombudsman. "When the new Ombudsman, former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, takes office, we will have an honest-to-goodness anti-corruption office, not one that condones the corruption and abuses in government." Then he end up his speech by telling us to end the crab mentality and stop finding faults and insults of individual, he reminds us to say thank you instead.
Actually, I am not pro-P-noy nor anti-P-Noy. He just got my attention and make me believe in every thing he said. I have nothing against his administration because I believed even the past administrations that the president cannot change everything in just a year that's why we're giving him six years and our current president had only five years left. It's not only the people in government who ruins a country it's more on the people - the citizens, the ordinary people. Let's not search for any mistakes and shortcomings, let's thank him instead for this new changes we are experiencing nowadays. Let us try to put away the wang-wang in ourselves and in our community. Let us believe this changes will continue.
Submitted to: Jayson Barlan (professor in Pol.Scie, LPU)
July 29, 2011
MY ASSESSMENT IN SONA 2011
Our President, Benigno S. Aquino III, delivered his second State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2011 (Monday). I was in school that time so I just watched the video of his speech in Youtube and read the transcript of it. His speech was in Filipino language that coped up many citizens especially the ordinary people who cannot merely understand the English language. I like the way he discussed things and the rhetoric was very good. He actually seemed poetic on every manner he performed. But that's not only my assessment. I'll discuss below my understandings and reactions on the topics tackled in SONA 2011.
The Wang-Wang.
"I stood before you during my inauguration and promised: we would do away with the use of the wang-wang. This one gesture has become the symbol of change, not just in our streets, but even in our collective attitude."
According to our president, the symbol of change in this country is the wang-wang or the siren. He told us that no matter who we are, we are not allowed to use the wang-wang not only in the streets but also in our manners and conducts. In a non rhetoric mean, he just wants us to stop abusing the authority and the privilege. I agree with him that the mindset of entitlement must come to a right approach that no one is hurting when conducting tasks. Change is a big challenge for everyone. Our president challenges everyone to stop the illegal activities and grab the change he wants us to achieve. There's no hard thing when we love doing it so it's not hard to change our bad attitudes (corruption, crab mentality, abuse, etc) as long as we are willing and loving doing it.
In his speech, he emphasizes the many changes we are now experiencing during the start of his administration. These changes are as follows: (1) Fewer Hungry Pinoys, (2) Better Economy, (3) Cheaper Energy Sources, (4) Zero-based Budgeting, (5) More Honest DPWH, (6) No More Importation of Goods, (7) Better Benefits for Police and Military, (8) Implementation Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, (9) More Jobs, (10) Health Program for Poor, (11) Law Synchronizing the ARMM with the National Election.
Clap, clap, clap. I think the most change we all Filipinos want to accomplish is the poverty. If this is the case that many Filipinos nowadays can eat properly everyday, then we, somehow, about to grab the opportunity of letting go poverty. There's no reason for me to question this, because I saw this myself too in my family and the people around me. Though, let's accept the fact that not all are experiencing this comfort so I am hoping that the next SONA of P-Noy will state that every Filipino is no longer experiencing hunger.
I also felt our economy is going better than before. Yes, there are lots of products that rising prices today but let's analyze that this fact is one factor of boosting economy. We can able to leave being a third world country if this process continues even the next administration. Having a better better economy in our country is actually a big change we could acknowledge. I'll wait until 2014 for more better economy and for a cheaper energy sources that my mom would only pay 300php per month.
I see many things will change especially to local officials because of this zero-base budgeting. It's good thing that resources will allocate base on the needs and benefits rather than the history and it will identifies and eliminates wasteful and obsolete operations. Though it will consume more time in decision making (identifying opportunities for outsourcing, identifying their mission and their relationship to overall goals, identifying areas of wasteful expenditure and, if desired, suggesting alternative courses of action), it will still be good for everyone because we know that the project is for a good cause not just because they (officials) want to do something so people can say that they did something. I also hope that it's true that there are more honest DPWH at present time. I wish they'll follow this zero-base budgeting in every project they've come up, not only them, but all insitutions.
"The rice served on every Filipino’s dinner table is planted here, harvested here, and purchased here." Actually, I always question this matter. Why do Filipinos prefer to eat rice that are imported from somewhere which cost more expensive than eat our own harvest which is of course less expensive? I don't know what's good in imported products and what's the difference since we also have these same products not only in rice. Is it the quality or the quantity? But all I know is that we, Filipinos have better quality in making products compare to China, but let's not discuss that anymore. "The rice served on every Filipino’s dinner table is planted here, harvested here, and purchased here." I'm glad with that - no more importation of rice. Our rice is much yummier. Let's not allow foreigners to rule our country not only in the rice matter, but also in many different ways.
I agree with this newly-enacted law, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, that would saves many women and children from falling into the prey of prostitution, pornography, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, involuntary servitude or debt bondage, both domestic and overseas. If that's for the good of everyone, why not to agree right? I can't see any wrong with this, so as with the Better Benefits for Police and Military, the Health Program for Poor, the Law Synchronizing the ARMM with the National Election and the More Jobs. I just hope to implement this properly and surely with no corruption at all.
So those are the changes that tackled by our president during the SONA 2011. He is asking everyone why not pay the proper taxes since it will now go and use where they should. "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."
Aside from the changes, he also told something about a very exciting topic, the tension in Spratly Island. "What is ours is ours; setting foot on Recto Bank is no different from setting foot on Recto Avenue." A big clap again for him. I like the way he claimed what is ours and fight for our right to claim it. He also discussed his plans regarding the flooding problems in our country and the monorail system. "One of the possible solutions we are studying is to make the stewardship of these trees beneficial to communities. They will be given coffee and cacao seeds to plant. While they wait for harvest, they will receive stipends for safeguarding the trees planted to mitigate flooding. We are looking at informal settlers, who are currently crammed into our cities, as possible beneficiaries of this program. We will be investing in the people, even as we invest in the environment." ... "DOST and UP have even teamed up to develop a prototype monorail system, which could potentially provide a home grown mass transport solution that would cost us as little as 100 million pesos per kilometer, much cheaper than the current cost of similar mass transit systems." And he introduced the new ombudsman. "When the new Ombudsman, former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, takes office, we will have an honest-to-goodness anti-corruption office, not one that condones the corruption and abuses in government." Then he end up his speech by telling us to end the crab mentality and stop finding faults and insults of individual, he reminds us to say thank you instead.
Actually, I am not pro-P-noy nor anti-P-Noy. He just got my attention and make me believe in every thing he said. I have nothing against his administration because I believed even the past administrations that the president cannot change everything in just a year that's why we're giving him six years and our current president had only five years left. It's not only the people in government who ruins a country it's more on the people - the citizens, the ordinary people. Let's not search for any mistakes and shortcomings, let's thank him instead for this new changes we are experiencing nowadays. Let us try to put away the wang-wang in ourselves and in our community. Let us believe this changes will continue.
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