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Post-Edsa Philippine Presidents Rating

By glitch, on July 30th, 2008

My “Wordless Wednesday” post…

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PGMA's SONA 2008

By glitch, on July 22nd, 2008

PGMA’s SONA (State Of the Nation Address) will be this coming Monday, July 28, 2008.

The President’s Ten-Point Agenda are as follows:

1. The creation of six million jobs in six years via more opportunities given to entrepreneurs, tripling of the amount of loans for lending to small and medium enterprises, and the development of one to two million hectares of land for agricultural business;

2. The construction of new buildings, classrooms, provision of desks and chairs and books for students and scholarships to poor families;

3. The balancing of the budget;

4. The “decentralization” of progress around the nation through the use of transportation [...]

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Arroyo Gets The Lowest SWS Rating

By glitch, on July 18th, 2008

President Arroyo receives the lowest rating of -38% in recent SWS survey. The Arroyo administration had a lowest rating of -33% in 2005.

The June 27-30 survey results added that only 22 percent of the respondents were satisfied with the President’s overall performance against 60 percent who said they were not.

A lowest rating could be attributed to rising prices of basic goods, rice, electricity, gasoline and other basic commodities. Of course, the first affected of crisis are the less fortunate Filipinos.