NOY SILENT ON JUETENG, HOSTAGE FIASCO, HACIENDA ISSUES
More promises, Gloria bashing, 100 days on
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 10/08/2010In what sounded as a reprise of a speech he made 100 days ago during his inaugural at the Quirino Grandstand which was filled with promises punctuated by attacks on the previous administration for leaving a host of problems on him, President Aquino rattled off non-achievements while warning his detractors whom he called as those seeking a return to the crooked path that their days are numbered in his 100-day report to the nation.
Aquino’s address sidestepped all the critical issues that faced his administration from the hostage crisis fiasco that claimed the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists where he received international humiliation, the jueteng scandal in which a close aide was accused of receiving payolas from jueteng lords and the thorny Hacienda Luisita issue in which he is accused of inaction on an age-long land reform problems in a huge farmland owned by his family.
Instead, Aquino harped on what he called “fruits” of good governance which he claimed included the strengthening of the stock market and the peso, which was, however, more the result of investors shunning away from the still weak developed economies and putting their money into the developing markets where the returns are higher.
Aquino also sounded more like his predecessor, former President Arroyo, in seeking refuge in his supposed economic achievements and blaming controversies hounding him to maneuverings of political detractors..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101008hed1.html
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