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Philippine President Noynoy Aquino SONA (State of the Nation Address) on July 26, 2010

July 26, 2010 Common, Politics

President Noynoy Aquino State of the Nation Address on July 26, 2010 was said to be full of promises but lacks the needed specifics to deliver them. However, what made his SONA better than his predecessors is his heartfelt sincerity and not just rhetorics…

Summary of Problems that were exposed

• Only 100-B out of 1.54 -T budget left
• 1.4-B of 2-B calamity fund in 2010 already spent
• 108 Million calamity fund went to Pampanga alone
• Bulk of MWSS budget went to pay, other perks
• Homes for MWSS execs built at La Mesa watershed
• Taxpayers now shoulder 200-B NAPOCOR debt
• Over-Purchase of rice left NFA rice left rotting in warehouses

Steps being Taken

• File cases vs tax evaders, smugglers
• Solve extra-legal killings
• Form Truth Commission
• Lease Navy HQ on Roxas Blvd and Bonifacio Naval Station to raise funds
• Public-private partnership to raise funds for infrastructure, agriculture
• Expedite BOT Projects
• Cut red tape to attract investors

President Noynoy Aquino SONA 2010 Part 1

President Noynoy Aquino SONA 2010 Part 2

President Noynoy Aquino SONA 2010 Part 3

President Noynoy Aquino SONA 2010 Part 4

President Noynoy Aquino SONA 2010 Part 5

Hope is preached, promises must be delivered

Hope through meaningful change was preached and promised during his presidential campaign which he won on May 10, 2010 election. Now that he is the sitting president of this impoverished nation Philippines, President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III must deliver the goods without excuses, otherwise, hopelessness will be tripled among the Filipino masses which might trigger a bloody revolution that has been prophesied and warned by many social and political analysts both here and abroad.

The first State of the Nation Address (SONA) will delivered by President Noynoy Aquino on July 26, 2010 at joint session of congress of the Philippines.

Some political observers are a bit speculative that President Aquino is set to attack on his predecessor and flesh out an anti-corruption drive when the makes his first State of the Nation Address on Monday. However, his predecessor, former President Gloria Arroyo, now a Congresswoman, is off for Hongkong to join her husband for health reasons.

President Aquino enjoying massive support

President Aquino is very likable with his humble personality and demeanor. In fact, he is enjoying record public support three weeks into the job with 80% of the surveyed trusted him as president based on public opinion poll. But last week, he gave a hint through media as if signalling that his speech to the joint session of congress for 2010 SONA will outline the dire economic problems that he says he inherited from former President Gloria Arroyo.

“The work will not be easy over the next few years. Nearly all the funds intended for use over the next few months have been stolen,” the straight-talking leader told an army parade on Friday an apparent preview of the SONA.

Aquino later told reporters that his administration had discovered some major irregularities by Arroyo’s government, and that he intended to use his speech to tell his countrymen about them in his first SONA because all Filipinos deserved to be informed.

“You will be very, very surprised at the things that we have discovered,” Aquino said. “I think the common reaction was, among those who already know, the expression of the mouth was: ‘Ha, they did that! Why did they do that?’ There is really no sense, no rhyme, no reason.”

Nothing personal, it’s just a work!

Aquino spokesman Edwin Lacierda said Saturday there would be nothing personal in the planned speech. “There is no intention to spite or to offend Congresswoman Gloria Arroyo,” he told reporters, describing it as an objective enumeration of facts.

Though many of her allies defected to Aquino’s Liberal Party, Arroyo — who as required by constitutional term limits to step down as president — still has a power base in congress, where two sons and two in-laws also sit, but not enough to put her as speaker of te house originally planned before the May 10, 2010 election should her anointed presidential candidate Gibo Teodoro win.

Using “With no corruption, there is no poverty” tagline during his campaign and promised to fight the massive corruption that he said festered during Arroyo’s nearly 10 years in power, Aquino, 50, won the national elections by a landslide. “The problem with that is there is no way to go but down,” said T. Lloydon Bautista, political economy professor at Manila’s University of Asia and the Pacific.

Bautista further said Aquino had three months to show how he would fight corruption and demonstrate his team could deliver basic services, or his popularity would start to fall. “These are issues that affect the public and he has to confront them,” Bautista to AFP.

Aquino’s first three weeks in office have shown how tough his job will be in governing the chaotic nation of 92 million people, a third of whom live in dire poverty. Both political allies and enemies of Aquino are waiting and looking how he would spend his first 100 days in office as president of the country which is the yard stick to measure whether he had put necessary foundation to lead the nation to economic upheaval in the next six years.

Aquino has already been hit by a water crisis that saw supplies rationed in Manila, while a typhoon killed more than 110 people and caused two days of power outages across the capital. The entire nation had seen him scolding some officials of government agencies with their lowsy approach in solving the problems besetting the nation. However, he seemed to be composed and professional in dealing with said officials unlike Gloria Arroyo who possesses a spirit of tyranny and arrogance.

Funds no more for 2010

In this light, Lacierda, the Aquino spokesman said the SONA address would also focus on how the new administration would get the job done. “We are going to state the situation and then our proposed solutions, and the president will advance, state his proposed legislative agenda,” Lacierda said.

But to get anything done, Aquino must ensure there is enough money. He said on Friday that Arroyo’s administration had spent or allocated 90 percent of this year’s budget by June 30, when he took office, leaving 10 percent for his government for the next six months.

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