For the second time around, P-Noy dedicated his speech to his predecessor, Pampanga Congresswoman Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo, and enumerated the previous administration’s anomalies and mishaps.
We already know GMA was a bad egg okay, so what’s the point of raising it all over again? Have you forgotten we were her constituents for 10 years? Or did it slip your mind that you already bashed her, and have been bashing her, prior to your return to Malacañang?
The good thing going for Pres. Aquino though is his choice of language. The man spoke in Filipino. In a time when beauty queens and boxing champs try their hardest to speak the universal language, the nation's leader opts to deliver his speech in his native tongue. That's showing them how it should be done Mr. President. Just hope you'd stop with the Chiz Escudero-ish highfaluting Tagalog words.
Back to his speech. P-Noy bragged about the following: the fact that his government managed to salvage funds that were about to be squandered on useless/questionable projects, our economy is recovering and that he gave some GOCCs a piece of his mind. In addition, he spoke highly of the fact that he will be allotting more funds to our armed forces, education and health sector. He also mentioned that he's working on producing more jobs and is expecting more foreign investors to start coming in the county.
Yay! No seriously, yay!
All this talk does make me happy, after all, this is good news right? However, the absence of an explanation on how these things will materialize takes some of its goodness away.
He also reiterated his desire to add a few more years in grade school and high school. He did offer a valid argument on this, explaining that kids are being forced to learn a lot of stuff on the fly resulting into information overload of sorts, unlike in other countries where kids gets a better grasp of lessons because they stay in school a lot longer. He also cited that a few more years in school results into a bigger salary.
I used to be an advocate of this notion, since the rest of the world has been using this system for a long time now; I don’t see any reason for us to get left behind. But a good friend of mine enlightened me on this one. What’s the point of staying longer in school when you’re cramped up in a hot classroom with 40, 50 or 60 other kids? What can you learn from a teacher who is busy selling merchandise to students instead of preparing the lesson? What good can two more years do to a kid who's not even happy with a public school in the first place?
Quality over quantity: It’s better to build more schools and classrooms, hire more teachers and compensate them well, rather than extending school years. You can’t expect a different result if students and teachers will still work with the same crap they’ve been working with for more than a decade now. Besides, this is what the people want.
The solution is in front of you Mr. President. No need to beat around the bush.
Good thing there has been no mention of the RH Bill during this latest speech, because it shouldn’t even stir up a conversation among government officials and politicians.
What’s with this RH Bill anyway? It’s not like it’s going to offer something new that condom advertisements haven’t been telling us for the past few years now.
This so-called informed choice is so overrated. Sex Education may not be part of the curriculum of Philippine schools, but it’s not like teachers of Values Education, Science, H.E.L.E. and T.L.E. haven’t informally touched this subject.
As Cong. Roilo Golez said during an interview in DZMM, the people don’t need condoms and birth control methods. They need food, shelter and jobs.
These people don’t have to be educated about the birds and the bees. They know for a fact that once they start f---ing each other, you form a baby. In a more liberated Philippines, people like sex. Everybody knows the consequences that come with sexual intercourse. If a pair of teenagers doesn’t want to use a condom because they believe it can get in the way of the fun, no bill can change their mind.
This whole RH Bill thing is another excuse for these politicians to turn us into their cash cows. It’s not like everybody’s gonna get a free birth control device. Furthermore, it’s not like we can’t afford it. For something that doesn’t cost more than Php 10, I find it hard to believe that people can’t buy a condom.
If there’s a will, there’s a way. That’s where policing ourselves come in. Do you seriously believe that the government has to provide for every f---ing thing you need?
Take informal settlers for example. These people get a home free of charge and how do they respond when the government offers them a new home? They start throwing rocks at the law enforcers and government officials.
Cry me a river. I don’t have a home to call my own as well and I have to endure paying rent in a village every month. That and the costly electric and water bill, and of course the basic need: FOOD.
We don’t need the RH Bill to help us control the population. Common sense can tell us when we’ve had enough kids. And if we don’t listen to it, we’re screwed. The government doesn’t have any business helping us when there are billions of other people starving.
Besides, if you take a closer look, the problem isn’t overpopulation. Yes, Metro Manila is overpopulated, but I ain’t buying the fact that all 7,100 islands of the Philippines are fully inhabited. The problem here is that there are lots of people fighting over limited resources, opportunities and territories here in the National Capital Region. If only the government can find a way to modernize and improve the economic status of our provinces, that should be good enough reason for some of our countrymen to go back to their native roots, or, convince some Manileños to move to the countryside.
We got bigger problems people, and right now, we don’t need an RH Bill to further complicate things.
Just hope the Church is reminded of its separation from the State. Church leaders have every right to express their opinions and stand because this is a democratic country. But to threaten the Pres. Aquino with excommunication might be going a bit overboard. After all, unlike Islamic countries where laws are based on the teachings of the Koran, the Phil. Constitution wasn’t inspired by the Bible.
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