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Worse than holiday economics EDITORIAL 11/07/2011

Monday, November 7, 2011

Worse than holiday economics

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11/07/2011
Businesses are again grumbling about something that Noynoy had assailed Gloria of doing and which, during the campaign period said he would not fall into doing, which is adopting holiday economics.

Noynoy has even added yet another Muslim holiday which was not in existence before — the time for Muslims hajj.

A policy taken during the time of Gloria, holiday economics is bunching non-working days with a holiday by moving such days to the nearest Friday or Monday.

The program hoped to help local tourism by encouraging Filipinos to travel during long holidays..... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111107com1.html

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

21 holidays in one year? utang na loob. substate push na dagdag muslim holiday pa. eh magbawas ka kaya ng christian holiday? lol.

"The declaration of the new holiday, thus, makes it look like Noynoy is trying to butter up more than Gloria with the Muslim secessionists that the government is negotiating with for peace, making the holiday another political accommodation.

"Noynoy had made the situation worse for business instead of improving the situation from the time of Gloria’s holiday economics."

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