What makes a country listens or at least a high school student to mind political issues obviously out of her grasp? For me - it is when they are given a seemingly expected assignment that follows such issues. The only thing that we can do is to make a reaction, but do we even deeply understand this? What is the weight of our reaction anyway?
Well, it seemed the majority of radio and television networks made the airwaves a little monotonous on July 23, 2012 when President Benigno Aquino III delivered his third State of the Nation Address. The President's third SONA was held at the Batasang Pambansa and lasted nearly an hour and a half with mixed reactions from the public and government critics.
The President tackled many issues and as usual made comparative results against the previous regime of Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo with outstanding claims of his present regime as far more successful, goal-oriented and better in terms of many issues. Mentioning of his SONA's highlights doesn't quite appeal to me, it's more of a statistical report from comparative data of the previous government and of his. Well, this is just my understanding but typically his SONA is more appealing on its poetic side. I find President Noynoy's SONA a little more entertaining especially so when you hear him speaking those fluent Filipino rhythmical terms with a spice of rhetorical questions.
As usual, there seemed to be an endless report of corruptions regarding coffee scam, the buying of secondhand helicopters and then sold to PNP as brand-new. I personally find his report citing economic achievement by granting loan of $1 billion to the IMF a little stressful. There is no point of citing achievement where the country could not even meet its people's need. How can we be granting loan when the country is even sacked of debt? Where's the logic to this? Well, perhaps there are things a high school student like me doesn't really understand - politically.
Boasting about 4.57 million students who could now go to school seemed to go with the idea that additional 4.57 million students will also have to share shades under school trees for lack of classrooms and school materials. The reality doesn't go with the report and it's easy to verify such by just looking around and yet we loaned $1 billion to the IMF. But there's a promise from Pnoy on the backlog of over 2 million chairs to be addressed by 2012 and another backlog of over 66,000 classrooms to be addressed by 2013. Isn't the population raising? What about the educational materials? The government cannot even afford a one-is-to-one ratio of book-to-student, how could it uplift quality education and yes, to cope up with a computerized education system? I was thinking that most students haven't even touched a keyboard yet by the time they will finish the K+12.
A standing ovation from the crowd of mixed politician and showbiz personalities was made upon Pnoy's mention of responsible parenthood bill. This, I understand, that a good family planning is the key to a prosperous family. I just hope that President Noynoy will fulfill all his responsibilities and his promises to our country.
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