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No wonder we’re in deep manure INSIDE CONGRESS Charlie Manalo 05/22/2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

No wonder we’re in deep manure

INSIDE CONGRESS
Charlie Manalo
05/22/2012
In a forum in Makati last Thursday, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino himself admitted that two years into his presidency, he still considers himself a “student” of governance.

Yet he takes pride at how his administration, through good governance, has enhanced the country’s fiscal health and generated confidence from investors.

WTF! What data is he reading? How can he say the country’s fiscal condition is in the pink of health enough to generate investors’ confidence?

According to a polling firm run by relatives, self-rated poverty rose to 55 percent, or an estimated 11.1 million Filipino families nationwide considering themselves to be poor, up from the 45 percent recorded last December 2011..... MORE

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