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Wrong answer FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01/14/2012

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Wrong answer

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
01/14/2012
If the argument is about economic growth, no matter what Noynoy, Butch Abad and his economic advsiers say, it will always have to be measured against the economic growth under Gloria Arroyo and Noynoy’s economic growth figures thus far.

Abad cannot simply argue, as a reply to Gloria’s treatise of “It’s the economy, student” referring to her one time student at the Ateneo, Noynoy, that the nine years of Gloria was a “huge failure” because “she turned her back on the her big opportunity (as) we ended up suffering from those years of very bad governance.”

“Repeatedly the performance of her government — the economic and political — has been exposed as a huge failure over the past nine-and-a-half years,” he added.

This is hardly in defense of Gloria and her administration, but if such is the argument, this can also be tossed back to the Noynoy regime..... MORE

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