President Aquino’s SONA

We have discussed the contents of the SONA of Pres. Aquino in the classroom wherein we also have a group discussion about the topic that had been mentioned by Pres. Aquino that had some relations to Philippine foreign policy. We had chosen infrastructure wherein we open our country to foreign investors to freely invest here and start business here. This was also implemented at the time of Pres. Ramos according to my Prof. in intrela before Mrs. Banez. The infrastructure will take time before it will be felt in the HDI of the country but for sure it will give changes to our current economic status. One of the fruits of opening our country to infrastructures are SLEX, NLEX, MRT, etc. I believe that the MRT is partially owned by our government that is why at the time of Pres. Arroyo, policies are easily implemented like making operations of the Metro 24 hours for the call center agents.

Going back to the topic I may say that it was typical and believe it or not I expected that It will turn out something like that because since a new elected President he will surely insult or rather make the past administration look bad. I am aware that a SONA is wherein the President should address the public about the current status of our country but from what I noticed in his speech is that almost half of it was numbers and statistics that I believe an average Filipino citizen would not appreciate at all. I hoped that instead of pushing down the hope of the Filipino people I recommend of pushing their hopes up instead wasting the opportunity to be heard in being unprofessional and soil the achievement of the past administration. It is showing immaturity since she is no competition from him already, he might have some insights for the past leader of our country but there is no reason or anything to pinpoint on someone. He is young and maybe lacks potential of being a leader and his administration is young, maybe we should give him another chance.