SONA ni GMA 2008

[godsaint]

GMA SONA of lies has spent millions of peoples money for her over an hour blah..blah..blah.So whats the truth with this country's situation?

[666satan]

hahay...paet aning life sa pinas...dli jd ta maasenso...naa man jd ning crab mentality...we should help one another ky sige lang dinaotay...bahala naa mangwat basta asenso ta...hehehe

[rynzco]

hahai,GMA speak mostly in english language,maybe d cguro ka kasabot ug english sah?or deaf ka?or blind ky dli kakita sa mga gipangmention ni GMA.khbw ka,mglisod ang mga taw ky tapulan man,or discontented sa trabaho ky mangita man ug dako nga position.
D ra jud c GMA ang basulon kng pobre ang pilipinas ky naa sa mga taw..

hahahahah relax lng dude....
mangutana ko nmo bro nkasabot kaha ka?....
beh arroyo mn gyd kaha ka...e explain daw brad nganung ang mga business man tax free mn?

kita na hinoon mga kabus back to back atong gibayran sa tax...tax sa trabaho tax pa gyd sa palitonon,
imagina gikan sa asin hangtod sa pinakamahalon nimong luho nay tax/vat..just think c juan nag sweldo og 5k a month or less nya total deduction 1.5k or more sa tax/vat lng na ha?...and thats the reality
nya karon mangutana mi asa kaha ang "katas ng vat" maka binefisyo ba kaha mi ana?....
napunta ba kaha na sa maayong kamot o napunta lng sa maayong purol?...tubaga daw donrey?...

inshort atong kinabuhi gituyokan sa tax/vat kada lihok limos...
tinood gyd na ila giingon nga "subra pas kawatan"..usapa na...
aw basig datu ka sa nyo brad donrey maong nag pakamanhid lng ka...
or wla balang gyd kay pag pakabana sa atong nasod?....think again bro

kami tawng mga pobre brad mka feel gyd tawn m oi unsa kalisod ron bsag unsaon pag kayod...

maong bsag nag kinastila o nag ininglis pana c glorya dli gyd ko motan.aw o mobasa sa gipang yaw yaw nya ky wa ghapoy ayo...

kng naa mn gani ayo aw natural ang mga kwartahan ray malipay....


peace y'all.....


If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

[jonjie_b]

OT:
nope. i think not only u do need a hug but also the need to get laid...

i'm not mad about u calling gloria a ***-starved dwarf. i am just not agreeable to it. unless u have proven it's true by ur own personal nocturnal investigation. so go and satisfy both ur thirst and not in this forum.

im not a columnist. i'm just a fan of istorya.net forums. i'm not acting all superior. u r the one acting inferior. and the way ur opinions been stated shows it all.

got laid last night.

miriam said so.

since when did my opinions say i was acting inferior when im rising up against u? i think you are one of those light on your feet people so theres no point. after all we cant all be "happy" people ehehehe. inferiority is alien to me. wow ur telling me to get lost from this forum? hahaha i didnt know your moderator. come one giddy boy thats so...."happy"

thats that for me. rant all u like.

[neilyong]

i didnt find the President's SONA impressive nor serves its purpose. what was discussed were all good things ug pahumot sa iya administrasyon.

she could have mentioned what went wrong why Philippines is now no. 8 most dangerous country..

also, to brag of the .50 cents text messaging fee is a Joke. how about the oil and rice prices? any updates?

[giddyboy]

GMA SONA of lies has spent millions of peoples money for her over an hour blah..blah..blah.So whats the truth with this country's situation?

millions? mao ba? how much millions exactly?

but as a president, there's nothing she can do about giving a SONA. she's obligated to give it. it's in our constitution. unless our legislators want to scrap SONA.

the truth? balikon nlng nako ni:

"People are always talking to you about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or something & they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn as you get older is that there ain't no truth. All there is, is Bullshit, layers of it. One layer of Bullshit layered on top of another. And what you do in life, like as you get older, is you pick the layer of Bullshit you prefer, & it's your Bullshit." ---Dustin Hoffman playing LaPlante, Hero (movie)

that's how jonjie_b myt got his/her "bullsh*t" remarks...natakdan cguro.

[jonjie_b]

i didnt find the President's SONA impressive nor serves its purpose. what was discussed were all good things ug pahumot sa iya administrasyon.

she could have mentioned what went wrong why Philippines is now no. 8 most dangerous country..

also, to brag of the .50 cents text messaging fee is a Joke. how about the oil and rice prices? any updates?

my point exactly.

and here she is folks. see our tita kissing imelda?


because i cant read:
La Gloria's U.S. Junket

by PERRY DIAZ

Six months ago, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo went on a three-country
European junket with an entourage of 192 which included the entire First Family
(nine persons), 34 congressmen and their spouses, and 50 business cronies. By
the end of 2007, Arroyo had traveled to 18 countries -- one every 20 days! --
and spent P588.5 million. In 2006, she traveled to 13 countries and spent P398
million. In 2005, she traveled to four countries and spent P154 million.

This year, the cost of her travels continues to rack up millions of
taxpayers' money. Her forthcoming "working" visit to the United
States on June 23 to 29 once again manifests her high-flying addiction to
junketing. Arroyo will meet with President George
W. Bush at the Oval Office to thank him for "all the help he gave to the
Philippines during the eight years of his term." The two leaders are also
going to discuss ways of "strengthening" U.S.-Philippines relations.


It seems to me that that is always the reason for a Philippine President
to visit the White House. I wonder if Arroyo realized that Bush is now a lame duck
President and will be out of office next January. Shouldn't she wait until
John McCain or Barack Obama becomes President? Of course, that would be another
opportunity for her to come back next year.

While in the U.S., Arroyo is also going to attend a dinner organized by the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ASEAN-U.S. Business Council. It will cost
Arroyo $8,000 for a table for ten. As to how many of her retinue of
politicians, government officials, and their spouses would attend, I
wouldn't be surprised if all of them would want to go to the dinner.

Of course, Gloria will pick up the tab which will eventually be paid for by poor Juan de
la Cruz. Arroyo's junkets and her other expenses have cost Juan de la Cruz
a lot of money. A recent report by the Commission on Audit (COA) showed that in
2007 Arroyo's foreign and domestic travels totaled P622.6 million.
That's 239% more than the all the salaries of the employees in the Office
of the President which would include all executive offices, agencies, commissions, and committees under her.

In addition, the COA report showed that P618.6 million were disbursed as
"donations" to unknown beneficiaries. And add to that another P531.9
million for all types of expenses such as confidential expenses, consultancy
expenses, extraordinary expenses, representation expenses and allowances, other
personal benefits, year-end bonuses, "cash gifts," and honoraria.

The sum is a whopping P1.8 billion. That's a lot of moolah -- enough to
build 36,000 Gawad Kalinga homes. During the 110th Independence Day last June12, Arroyo cut the cost of the Independence Day program at the Rizal Park to show the people that she's willing to conserve money at a time of rising food prices.

However, on the night of June12, Arroyo hosted a glitzy reception at the
Malacanang Palace for the diplomatic corps and the country's elite. What is
appalling was the ostentatious display of pomp at the Malacanang reception,
especially the revival of the elitist dance, the "rigodon de honor."
Arroyo handpicked the 20 couples -- the country's rich and famous or, I
might say, the cream of Gloria's "Enchanted Kingdom" -- who
participated in the rigodon. It is interesting to note that the last time the
rigodon was performed in Malacanang was on June 30, 1981 during the third
inauguration of President Ferdinand Marcos.

When Cory Aquino ascended to the presidency after Marcos was overthrown in
1987, she prohibited the rigodon from being performed in all official functions, an oblique rejection of a dance considered to be fitting only for the high and mighty ruling elite. After 27 years of not performing this unnecessary display of power and affluence, Gloria revived the rigodon at a time when the people are in dire need and impoverished.


After all the speeches at the June 12th reception had ended, the media people
were unceremoniously told to leave. Thus, nobody from the media witnessed the
"rigodon de honor" except one -- outgoing Press Secretary Ignacio
Bunye. Bunye disclosed and described the rigodon in detail -- including the
names of the participants -- in his weekly newspaper column.

Arroyo should have told him to leave the reception too. Arroyo's junkets
and high-maintenance lifestyle make a lot of people wonder if she realized that
the country is in a state of chaos and decay. Recent polls show that seven out
of 10 Filipinos cannot afford to buy food nor pay
their electric bills. With the price of rice going up as high as P50 per kilo
today, how can a family of five survive on a daily wage of P70? Yet, we
have the country's leader squandering money left and right that could otherwise
be used to provide shelter and food for the powerless poor. Is she likened to a
modern-day equivalent of Nero who fiddled while Rome was burning?


oh boy. all these while the rest of us buy 8 liters of diesel for 500 bucks, coping up with food price increase. its a good thing its just 0.50 pesos per txt. like yeah sure that saved alot of poor people starving.

[jonjie_b]

millions? mao ba? how much millions exactly?

but as a president, there's nothing she can do about giving a SONA. she's obligated to give it. it's in our constitution. unless our legislators want to scrap SONA.

the truth? balikon nlng nako ni:

"People are always talking to you about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or something & they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn as you get older is that there ain't no truth. All there is, is Bullshit, layers of it. One layer of Bullshit layered on top of another. And what you do in life, like as you get older, is you pick the layer of Bullshit you prefer, & it's your Bullshit." ---Dustin Hoffman playing LaPlante, Hero (movie)

that's how jonjie_b myt got his/her "bullsh*t" remarks...natakdan cguro.

bullshit huh. boy. i mean "happy" hehehe giddyap. beats the hell out of me if u still dont get it.


btw i never said she should scrap SONA maybe u misunderstood when i was saying it was crap but read again i never said she should scrap her state of the nation. its one thing reacting to an opinion its another when u tell people what they are. and thats what gets you burned buddy boy buddy girl and everything in between.

[giddyboy]

i didnt find the President's SONA impressive nor serves its purpose. what was discussed were all good things ug pahumot sa iya administrasyon.

she could have mentioned what went wrong why Philippines is now no. 8 most dangerous country..

also, to brag of the .50 cents text messaging fee is a Joke. how about the oil and rice prices? any updates?

i beg to disagree. not all good things were brought up but also bad things. here are some:

(1) "Whatever the reasons, we are on a roller coaster ride of oil price hikes, high food prices and looming economic recession in the US and other markets. Uncertainty has moved like a terrible tsunami around the globe, wiping away gains, erasing progress."

(2) "This is a complex time that defies simple and easy solutions. For starters, it is hard to identify villains, unlike in the 1997 financial crisis. Everyone seems to be a victim, rich countries and poor, though certainly some can take more punishment than others."

(3) "The result has been, on the one hand, ito ang nakasalba sa bayan; and, on the other, more unpopularity for myself in the opinion polls. Yet, even unfriendly polls show self-rated poverty down to its 20-year low in 2007."

(4) "The sad irony of Mindanao as food basket is that it has some of the highest hunger in our nation. It has large fields of high productivity, yet also six of our ten poorest provinces."

[jonjie_b]

i do agree with you on this one giddy these problems arent restricted to the philippines. food shortages brought by farmers shifting to bio fuel instead of food production. its a tragedy since the aim was money to buy food but what is there to buy when it is now on shortage