Dreaming NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 09/21/2010

Dreaming

NO HOLDS BARRED

Armida Siguion-Reyna

09/21/2010
It’s the state I slip into, whenever our President leaves, whoever the President may be. I make-believe big and gung-ho and with so much optimism, that I invariably get what I want, my wish ko lang. So what, if it’s only in my fancy? The road to somewhere starts from nowhere.

I write this knowing that you shall read it on the anniversary of President Ferdinand Marcos’ declaration of martial law, where then there was censorship and yet understandably so. But I’m going ahead of what I want to say.

I write this knowing that our President Benigno Aquino is off to witness the signing of the $434 million Millennium Challenge Corp. grant in New York between Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima and a representative of the MCC, in its Web site described as “an innovative and independent US foreign-aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty.” 

P-Noy gets to the city that doesn’t sleep Tuesday morning, plunges into meetings with US business leaders, and proceeds to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue, where he is to be met by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Together they watch the signing of the document aimed “to reduce poverty and spur economic development in the Philippines,” after which they listen to speeches from our Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo and his US ka-level, and then meet..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100921com4.html