President Benigno Aquino stated in his SONA, that “Tungkulin po ng bawat Pilipino na tutukan ang mga pinunong tayo rin naman ang nagluklok sa puwesto. Humakbang mula sa pakikialam tungo sa pakikilahok. Dahil ang nakikialam, walang-hanggan ang reklamo. Ang nakikilahok, nakikibahagi sa solusyon.” I agree with what he said because after President Aquino’s SONA a lot of critics said that his SONA lacked specific key issues, it lacked substance and the speech was re-hashed” In my opinion we can’t just go on and complain about his SONA because the development of the Philippines doesn’t depend and rely on one man alone, we should also do our part and be involved in our country, nothing will really happen if we just sit back and complain, that’s the problem with us Filipinos we would always want to blame the government for the country’s instability and problems. I honestly think that President Aquino’s SONA was meaningful because he was able to expose the wastefulness of the past administration, making the citizens aware of what has happened with the people’s money, I also saw that he wanted to address the problems in our economy as well as the Moro Islamic conflict. I also liked his proposals on how to go about the different problems such as the: efficiency of business registration, fiscal responsibility bill, public-private partnership, truth commission, zero-based approach and a whole lot more.
During our class we had a group work where in we had to discuss the connections between the problems and proposals presented by President Aquino and its implications in our Philippine Foreign policy because nothing in his speech, directly relates to foreign policy although there were links.
The group I was a member of, chose to tackle the Economic problem of the country because according to some articles on the web, the Philippines ranked as one of the most unfriendly countries in terms of our laws regarding foreign investments which hinders the country to a full economic development and stability. We focused on his solution,which was ”public-private partnership and zero-based approach” where in the government will not spend a single peso, but the funds will com from willing investors for projects such as infrastructures and expressway from Manila to Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Viscaya until Cagayan Valley. Our group believes that growing investments and infrastructures will give out a lot of job opportunities because from these infrastructures, gasoline stations may be opened and these gasoline stations will also have a lot of establishments in it as well as the mini kiosks, which will give a chance for small to big range entrepreneurs which will also generate jobs for a lot of our kababayans. The Department of Trade and Industry will also be reformed in such a way that registering for a business will be a friendlier process which will attract local and foreign business enterprises to invest in our country. With this, the government will be crafting policies that will address a partnership of the Philippine government to other foreign entities to ensure a friendly and secure transaction and relationship to safeguard both parties.
During our class we had a group work where in we had to discuss the connections between the problems and proposals presented by President Aquino and its implications in our Philippine Foreign policy because nothing in his speech, directly relates to foreign policy although there were links.
The group I was a member of, chose to tackle the Economic problem of the country because according to some articles on the web, the Philippines ranked as one of the most unfriendly countries in terms of our laws regarding foreign investments which hinders the country to a full economic development and stability. We focused on his solution,which was ”public-private partnership and zero-based approach” where in the government will not spend a single peso, but the funds will com from willing investors for projects such as infrastructures and expressway from Manila to Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Viscaya until Cagayan Valley. Our group believes that growing investments and infrastructures will give out a lot of job opportunities because from these infrastructures, gasoline stations may be opened and these gasoline stations will also have a lot of establishments in it as well as the mini kiosks, which will give a chance for small to big range entrepreneurs which will also generate jobs for a lot of our kababayans. The Department of Trade and Industry will also be reformed in such a way that registering for a business will be a friendlier process which will attract local and foreign business enterprises to invest in our country. With this, the government will be crafting policies that will address a partnership of the Philippine government to other foreign entities to ensure a friendly and secure transaction and relationship to safeguard both parties.
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