No difference between student Aquino, teacher Arroyo – Bayan

 No difference between student Aquino, teacher Arroyo – Bayan

By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
The student is no different from the teacher.
This was the stand of the BagongAlyansangMakabayan (BAYAN) on the exchange of insults between Malacañang and the camp of former president and now under hospital-arrest Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Macapagal-Arroyo through her supporters, recently released a supposed study on the current state of the economy. In it, the former executive now charged with electoral fraud and corruption alleged that the Benigno Aquino administration has wrought damage to the economy through unintelligent mismanagement. The title of the paper was “It’s the Economy, Student!” referring to Aquino being Macapagal-Arroyo’s former student in a course on economics at the Ateneo University.

“Neither the President nor anyone else can truly expect to govern the next five years with nothing but a sorry mix of vilification, periodically recycled promises of action followed by lethargy, backed up by few if any results, and presumptuously encouraging gossip about one’s love life in which no one can possibly be interested. Given the electoral mandate that he enjoyed in 2010—the same size as mine in 2004, as predicted by every survey organization at that time—our people deserve more, and better, from him,”Arroyo wrote in her paper.

For Bayan, however, there’s no difference between the current president and his predecessor. Case in point, the group said, was how both administrations have done nothing to stop the incessant problem of excessive oil prices and continuing price hikes. Oil companies recently raised their pump prices by as much as P2.00 (US$0.05)per liter. World gasoline prices have already increased by around P1.75 (US$0.04) per liter while diesel prices rose by around P1.30 per liter in the international market.... MORE

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