Over 100 rounds of applause received by the Republic of the Philippines President Benigno Simeon Aquino III when he delivered his one and a half third State of the Nation Address at the Batasan Pambansa Complex, July 23. The well-applauded forty pages speech of PNoy had undergone a lot of revisions more than seven drafts that entitled, “Report kay Boss”.
President Aquino once again faced the country and show the people what has been changed since being elected 2010.The third and the last SONA of PNoy before the ELECTION 2013 highlights the positive changes, accomplishments of his administration made in the past 2 years and the plans for the rest of his term.
President Aquino talks about the nightmares of the lost decades. Though, not mention the name of former President Arroyo he still alluded to remind people of what his administration had to reckon. He cited the anomalies in the Northrail Project. He said that an expensive project that became even more expensive after the renegotiation and the higher cost came with fewer public benefits. And the debts incurred from that project are now being called in. “Nothing is impossible to a united Filipino nation”. He noted.
Some of the improvements and plans of Pnoy’s administrations are: Relief Goods and Rescue Operation are now ready before the calamity/storms arrives. The disasters preparedness has improved. PNoy receives a long applause after saying that the country is now a creditor nation because Filipinos always borrowed before and now in his administration we are the ones lending. Aquino recalled starting off the wave of reforms with a simple thing like stop of using sirens for officials’ cars, including his own, and leaving only the law-enforcement vehicles and medical ambulances as exceptions.
The president tackled about the Sin tax and Reproductive Health or RH bill. “Challenges remain. The high