Hoping, but not counting
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Jonathan De la Cruz 07/28/2010So, OK. What do we make out of P-Noy’s Sona? While many would have wanted to have the villains in their minds excoriated no end for the continued deterioration of our situation 24 years after Edsa l and, of course, the injection of their favorite mantras or themes in the 30 minute speech we got what was advised early on. Plain and simple detailing of the whys and wherefores and the hoped for., It was a plain recitation of where we are — a country in crisis, where the poor have gotten poorer, the rich richer and the middle class almost nowhere to be found and, as is now clear, suffering from a host of excesses. And then, a “wishing map” of where we hope to be six years hence. It was a hopeful (we can dream again.) speech but an auditing rulebook as well. It presented our situation as plainly as can be, although some say, not as factually as should have been. We are told, for example, that the MWSS “package” while problematic was not as graphic or even condemnable as some of the excesses in other GOCCs and GFIs. Or, worse, those which befell the PCGG sequestered assets. Maybe it was timed for what is now turning out to be more of a contrived water crisis in the Maynilad service area than earlier presented. Similarly, the “dreaming” part was more modest than what many had hoped for. No soaring rhetorics, no excessive hopes. Just plain and simple things. Which may be par for the course as the administration sorts out the place, so to speak, and spell out the solutions and directions it hopes to lead us to. Indeed, it may be too much to ask for more at this point. But we will be watching and counting..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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