Letters: as friend of time: "REPORT KAY BOSS"

Sunday, July 22, 2012

"REPORT KAY BOSS" - SONA 2012

http://www.gov.ph/past-sona-speeches/

It’s a speech that will show that “what President Aquino says is what he does.” At his inauguration on June 30, 2010, Mr. Aquino said the people were his “boss,” and promised to do what they wanted him to do for them.

...In time for the President’s third report to Congress, experts in different fields who make up the Movement for Good Governance (MGG) released their new scorecard for Mr. Aquino.

For his work in his second year in office, the Movement for Good Governance gave Mr. Aquino a score of 5.59 out of a possible 10. The group gave him 4.69 last year.

The movement, headed by University of the Philippines professor emeritus Solita Monsod, the socioeconomic planning secretary to Mr. Aquino’s mother, said the score, though representing an improvement from last year’s, meant that the President fell short of meeting the goals that he himself had set and committed to deliver at the beginning of his term.

Mr. Aquino faces the Filipinos’ representatives in the legislature with a higher grade given by reform-minded organizations, business leaders and ordinary citizens who have been following his performance since he set out two years ago to continue the reforms introduced by his mother, President Corazon Aquino, to pull the Philippines out of the economic wasteland she inherited from the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

He also promised to lead them down the “straight path,” and proceeded to clean up the bureaucracy to make doing business with the government easier for the public, but most especially for investors who trusted that he would not taint his late mother’s legacy.

Two years later, he has raised the Philippine economy’s credit-worthiness to just one notch below investment grade and he has brought criminal charges against his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, whose administration was seen as more corrupt than the Marcos regime.

And he has removed from office by impeachment Renato Corona, the Chief Justice whom Arroyo appointed as her scandal-wracked administration was ending...
http://www.gov.ph/2011/07/25/benigno-s-aquino-iii-second-state-of-the-nation-address-july-25-2011/