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True or false VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 01/22/2012

Sunday, January 22, 2012

True or false

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Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz
01/22/2012
There is a good amount of interesting news about the Philippines, more specifically in conjunction with the present administration and the economic plight of the Filipinos as a whole. Malacaang and understandably its rah-rah boys are consistent and insistent in claiming that there is a fast and marked ongoing economic development and consonant social progress in the country. There are surely less hungry people and more self-sufficient families. There are more satisfied Filipinos in the way their government is running the affairs of the State and less individuals who see it otherwise. That such very positive national phenomenon is an infallible constant as far as the Palace is concerned. In fact, such a wonderful and endearing judgment is regularly affirmed by certain major tri-media firms.

In other words, it is definitely false to say that there is lack of competence and industry in the some two-year-old government in the country. In fact, it is a blatant desecration even but to think that the current national leadership has no comprehensive plan, programs and projects for the socio-economic growth of the Philippines. In fact, so Malacanang claims, there is a great majority of Filipinos who are well pleased and much contented with the way the affairs of the State are being conducted and attended to under the illustrious sound and solid national leadership. That is to say, it has never been better. The reality is so declares and affirms the present administration practically everybody is very pleased with and appreciative of the way things are today in the country as a whole..... MORE

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