Does SONA of P-Noy Has an Impact to Ordinary People?

            The public has different views about the 5th State of the Nation Address of President S. Benigno Aquino. Some were contented to his speech while other people considered this as a rhetorical remarks and it has no overall impact to the lives of many Filipino people. In SONA 2014, he praised his other member of his cabinet for being successful with their various programs and attacked his critics.

               Of course, P-Noy is not just ‘noynoying’ or do nothing to his position. He reported some accomplishment of his administration. First, they are fighting really the corruption on the government. He said that he made major changes to the system of the Bureau of Customs and Department of Public Works and Highway by appointing official who have a fighting spirit to reform the agencies. Although they knew that the corruption there were already deep. This is very good, because for the first time there is an administration became very aggressive to fight the long tradition of corruption in the government. P-Noy supported the abolition of PDAF although many lawmakers didn’t agree with this. The only problem is, Sec. Butch Abad made DAP which declared by the high court as illegal. Maybe their intention is good, but they didn’t became transparent from their action. That’s why the Aquino Administration shaken due to this issue. Although they already explained to the public where they used the fund. He was also proud when he announced that they helped many scholars under the program of TESDA funded by DAP.

              The President also said that the tax collections of the BIR increased compared to the previous years. This is also very good, it means that the government has a sufficient fund that they can use for public service like giving health assistance, road widening, etc. P-Noy boasted that they made a lot of national hi-way and farm to market roads that the people would benefit. Some of the road projects he cited was already finished and the others are still under construction. But despite of this, why there are still places in the Philippines that don’t have a concrete road? Hope that P-Noy would also look their situation. He can castigate the mayor or governor for neglecting their people. There were reports that some abandoned road and bridge projects. They only started a small portion of it, then they left it. Is this a fault of the politician or the DPWH officials?

                  P-Noy said also that under his term we reached economic growth. This is a good sign that our economy is in a tough situation. Because of this, credit foundations has a trust to lend us again and our country could attract foreign investors. So, it would make a job opportunities for our countrymen. Maybe this is good in the eyes of the business man? But if you will ask ordinary people they say that they didn’t not feel any changes in their lives. What they feel is, their lives become more miserable compared before. They can’t afford to eat three times a day because every basic needs doesn’t stop from increasing. For them, it is really hard to survive in the Philippines. The Pantawid Pamilya Program of P-Noy is not an answer to stop decrease poverty. The jobs that they created is not enough to accommodate all the unemployed P-Noy.

                 The President has two years to finish his presidency. Hope that he could continue to serve the people. There are still many things that he can do. As what he said he was only human, so, don’t treat him as Superman. As a citizen of this country we should do our part and of course P-Noy should do also his obligation as a father of our country. We can’t say what would be the output of his remaining years as a president. It would become better or worse? Let us just wait his last SONA in 2015!