Noy’s bubble bursts again
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Whenever Noynoy issues an empty boast, which noticeably is becoming more frequent nowadays, something falls out from off the sky to knock him on the head.
Just after bragging at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum event that his administration has solved the rice sufficiency problem and that more Filipinos are getting employed, equating to a reduced number of families under the poverty level, comes another survey showing that 52 percent, or more than half of Filipino families, rated themselves as poor and barely have anything to eat.
The survey covered Sept. 4 to 7 and was commissioned by a newspaper for the Social Weather Stations (SWS) to undertake..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111115com1.html
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sobrang taas ng inflation ba ibig sabihin niyan? talagang sobrang hirap nga ng buhay ngayon. paano nasisikmura ng mga dilaw na halos puro sila lang ang busog, masagana samantalang ang mga kababayan nila ay sobrang nagdarahop.
"A family that considers itself poor can no longer make do with P15,000 a month in Metro Manila compared to a P4,000 threshold in the previous survey. This was a jump of more than three times in the needed income capacity of a family to make ends meet.
"For a family to eat decently, the amount needed also grew by P1,000 a month to P6,000 a month in the capital and a bit lower in other parts of the country."
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