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Continue reading →: Ang pagmasaker ni Carlo J. Caparas at ng Malacañang sa gawad National Artist
Basahin ang artikulong ito para sa mga sirkunstansya ng kontrobersya. Hindi naman daw sa pagbubuhat ng sariling bangko, pero ani Carlo J. Caparas, “napag-uusapan” lamang ngayon ang gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining (National Artist) dahil sa kanya. “I just want to point out the truth. The past winners are not…
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Continue reading →: Post-SONA notes: Gloria’s statistically incoherent 8 M jobs
She promised one million new jobs a year but critics are one in saying that the jobs crisis is at its worst under her administration. To silence her critics and justify her regime, did Mrs. Gloria Arroyo ask government statisticians to give her, at all cost, “one million jobs a…
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Continue reading →: SONA 2009 notes: almost 4 M jobless a year (and it’s also understated)
In her first SONA (2001), Mrs. Arroyo declared that her economic philosophy is that “the way to fight poverty is to create jobs, not destroy them”. She even made a concrete promise to create one million new jobs in agriculture and fisheries in one year alone. In her 2002 SONA,…
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Continue reading →: World Bank, bad bank: Gas tax hike proposal to hurt the poor
The World Bank, in its latest quarterly report on the Philippines, recently proposed that government increase the current excise tax of P4.35 per liter on imposed on gasoline products to ensure a quality implementation of Arroyo’s fiscal stimulus plan and address a ballooning budget gap. According to the multilateral lending…
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Continue reading →: SONA 2009 notes: 3.8 M more poor Filipinos, Gloria richer by P78 M (& they’re even understated)
On her 9th State of the Nation Address (SONA), Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would surely brag again how her administration has successfully steered the economy amid the raging global financial and economic crunch. The best argument that will dispel assertions by Arroyo of a strong and resilient economy is the reality…
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