This is a series of video of Senator Aquino’s policy speech, “A Philippines that Works,” an Economic Vision and Platform.
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Full Video of Noynoy Aquino’s Economic Vision and Platform: “a Philippines that Works”
January 23, 2010 By 37 Comments
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This is my first time I’ve heard of Noynoy speaking. His voice is soft and contains a lot of substance. I wish that his Vision for the country is to bridge the gap between the poor and the rich. The poor is the bread and butter of the rich and the politicians. Had it not been with the poor , no president nor politicians in this country could have succeeded. I just hope that whoever provides the service to the public will return the favor to the poor by way of education, equality, human rights and respect for the needs of employment.
There are many disadvantages of the poor that the rich and politicians are taking advantage.
1. a country’s leverage to borrow for infrastructure
2. a country’s leverage for getting international donations
3. The poor are the laborer who works for the rich to make the rich richer.
4. The poor cannot compete in the free market due to lack of education and training.
5. The poor can easily be manipulated and be bought during elections
6. The poor has no money to start their own businesses
7. The poor has limited intelligence to play in a fair field.
8. The poor has limited access to information , lacking books to read, lacking internet access and lacking the time to focus on needs and wants. The majority are just too hungry to think for other things.
9. The poor may lack the nutrients to nourish their bodies and brains to think for their future.
The rich and many politicians are supposed to share their experiences to the poor as a role model- it’s their social responsibility and yet the Philippine government lacks the understanding of human value.
It’s time to return that favor to the poor……
“The rich and many politicians are supposed to share their experiences to the poor as a role model- it’s their social responsibility and yet the Philippine government lacks the understanding of human value.”
exactly. time to transform our society.
Amen, Leytenian, harinawa ay isang tunay na pagbabago para sa masang pinoy sa pamumuno ni Noynoy…di tulad ng mga nakaraan…puro abuloy lang!
cocoy,
You were overdoing it. FV is colored yellow all over already. There is no substitute for a soft-sell unless your target audience is the C-D class, which largely FV is not.
Phil Manila has to be convinced.
FV must understand that the people here do not belong to the poor majority. I am also hoping that FV will empower the poor , guide the poor and help the poor regardless of who will sit in office. No president of this country will succeed unless the poor majority is allowed to participate in real democracy.
The Philippines remains very weak on its vision and mission.
Yes JCC… you are so right.
And Bert, I no longer endorse any candidate unless vision is clearly define on papers.
One measurable vision for example… is to increase employment by 5% per year. The second vision, is to increase college graduates among the youth by 5-10% a year. That to me is a clear vision and mission of a president.
To connect the dot, let’s go back to the candidate’s achievements in the past. So my question would be- Did Noynoy assist to increase employment during his senatorial term? how many percentage points ? Did he improve the number of college graduates during his term? These questions are all applicable to all the candidates. The questions may not be fully the job description of a Senator but as a Senator or a public servant, the role is to implement legislations to achieve positive results…
Achievements are measurable positive result not promises. In our country, we must focus on
1. employment
2. education
3. national security – reducing crimes and improving the rule of law.
JCC,
Mr. Aquino and his running mate, Mr. Roxas are currently leading in surveys that are reputable like SWS and Pulse Asia.
People all over are saying, they don’t trust Mr. Aquino and fear his becoming president because they don’t know him. They don’t trust him because of his lack of “experience”. This is an opportunity for people to know him. To hear this thoughts to see how well his team have prepared him and have helped him thus far.
Here is the opportunity to see: is noynoy ready to be president.
Misters Villar, Teodoro, Gordon, Perlas and Mr. Estrada and their people have been asking why isn’t Mr. Aquino participating in debates and forums. People want to know who Mr. Aquino is. Vilar, Teodoro, Gordon, Perlas and Mr. Estrada have either been to ANC forums or blogwatch events. And if you’ve seen the latest Cebu forum, what Villar, for example said then were the exact same words he used in his blogwatch interview last month.
So far, it is mr. aquino who is talking about policy and talking about real vision.
the C and D classes will not understand about Tax Rates and GDP and will not care about those details. How can they when a lot of them couldn’t finish high school? It is exactly for those reasons why the Aquino administration wants a nation that is middle class rather than poor.
The speech is exactly targeted for people like you, for people who read FV because it is you who can understand these issues and how deeply they run and how great the threats are.
leytenian,
i hear you and i hope one day our demographic grow as our nation grows. Everyone is freely welcome to read FV. Most people find it “nosebleed” to read. often i personally get a feed back that we use, “deep english,” whatever the heck that means. It was why for the most part, until recently, I linked here on FV and have the full article on blogwatch. Because “normal” people read blogwatch and I trust you guys to follow the link.
Anyway, we got to appreciate the leaves, and separate it from the tree just as we must identify the tree from the forest and see the forest for what it is.
jcc and leytenian and phil and bert, and everyone,
i’ve been told that this is just the first of many policy speeches that Mr. Aquino is going to deliver as he unravels his plan. Mr. Aquino i’m told rubs elbows with the people out in the field, while his opponents use forums to say the same old thing, forum after forum. Mr. Aquino is giving his policy speech, telling us, this is the Philippines. The senator is saying, this is how we will get a Philippines that works while his opponents are still talking about the same tired and old and boring thing. i hope when it comes their time to announce their policy, we will post it here as well.
People want policy from Mr. Aquino. That’s him talking about his policy. What exactly do people think about his tax plan? Prudent? Smart? Crap? What exactly are people talking about his Agrarian Reform push?
I don’t hear a lot of people discussing the merits or failure of his plan.
So let’s hear it, shall we?
cocoy,
you are doing the right thing. regardless of your presidential preference, that’s your right and I respect you for that… thank you for blogging.
cocoy,
I will vote for Noynoy not on his promise to deliver but on the strength of his moral fiber, being a scion of two wonderful people who had served the country without stealing from them. I would not consider the Hacienda Luisita which was funded by the government stolen and if they stole it, Cory and Noynoy were not the chief culprits but the old Cojuangco patriarch/matriarch. Besides this is a large hacienda which could not be parceled out to farmers and still make it viable. By its nature, it should operate as an integrated farm-land with centralized management and production goals. The key-concept of individual farmer operator of the Comprehensive Land Reform Program is anathema to a large, mechanized and productive farmland. If you divide it among farmers who do not have the capital and the technical know-how to operate a sugarland, you end up having pockets of small unproductive lands.
BTW, anyone whom we elect this November for President cannot deliver what he promises. WE were embroiled in so much debt and proverty is all over the place, our institutions are damaged and the bureaucracy is corrupt from the bottom up. It will take a superhuman skills and ability to get us out of the rut we are in. None of them, from my perspective is a superman.
But I will be behind Noynoy under the belief that he can make small steps towards the right direction. Those things he wanted to do if elected cannot be done in his lifetime, but he could provide the spark for hope and a vision for all of us to make those little steps- one at a time.
So enough already of those big talks and platitudes. Don’t raise the level of expectation of the electorate because they might end up frustrated.
I had heard similar Platform before from Presidential candidates
in previous elections. “Lumang tugtugin na.” “Masakit na sa tainga.”
“Wala rin naangyari after the election”.
So i guess you won’t be voting for Villar, Teodoro or Estrada or Gordon or Perlas. I mean, by your logic, they’re also giving campaign promises. good luck with that.
I will not endorse anybody. Voting is secret ballot. I will
have my own choice.
Mariano,
I’ll bet your own choice is not a presidential candidate.
eh ano bago sa ibang presidentiables?
Employment + education = middle-class
Middle-class has historically been the engine to nation growth.
There has never been a study if the slogan “lower-taxes equals more jobs”
is applicable to the Philippines (or to Indonesia, Haiti, Burma).
Lowering the existing income tax rates in Pinas does not make sense, and
there are less spokespeople for the very poor saying “..we need more help” since
many are more pre-occupied with “GMA Talsik Diyan” than “Kahirapan, kailangang labanan”.
What should be true : undernourished workers are underproductive.
Subsidies to provide more nutrition to undernourished workers needed.
Undernourished students underperform with their studies.
Subsidies needed to undernourished students.
Zero-income families drag their students out of schools so the childen
can work to help feed the families. Subsidies are needed to
zero income families so their students can stay in school.
If subsidies are needed to ?????? so that more jobs are created for
the classes -C, -D, -E, then so be it.
Many of the DSWD policies under current GMA administration have to stay.
Does NoyNoy propose to make changes to GMA policies?
What are the proposed changes?
Question : what will Gordon, Villar, Gibo, NoyNoy, Jamby do different?
Does NoyNoy propose to make changes to GMA agriculture farmer policies?
did you even listen to the speech UP n grad? he already mentioned what he will do for GMA policies. you can checkout the text version. :) get back here when you’ve done reading it.
you are silly, cocoy. You really think i made posted comments before reading the text? What you really meant to say probably is that I reached conclusions different from yours, which, by my English, is a big difference from inferring that I did not read the text, because you should have noted that I was putting in italics direct cut-and-paste from the text.
Mr. Aquino has already said that he favors markets that are open because the market is the best judge of opportunities and threats. The government’s job must be less dole outs, and more about creating a level playing field. Mr. Aquino has already said that his goal to make taxes lower for everyone.
What’s happening right now is that you, me and everyone is paying vat. people are paying income tax. the corporation is paying tax. hell, just the other day, tollways, it was announced was being included in VAT. High taxes choke people. They stifle growth. There comes a point where people simply can’t pay taxes anymore.
Why is a lower tax good for everyone? Because the low income guy? the guy who earns minimum wage? instead of the government having to strip him of his hard earned cash, he gets to have a little bit more so he could put it in the bank. He gets a little bit more to spend on more than food for his hungry family, maybe even give them a new pair of shoes.
People do keep more when the income tax rate is reduced across all income brackets by 1%, but some keep more than others. An employee with P8,000 taxable-monthly income keeps P80-a-month extra; him with P120,000-monthly income keeps P1,200.00 extra. Just for those two people alone, that is P1,280-month probably was part of government expenditures for for public school teachers wages.
Tax-rationalization : lower the VAT and raise the income tax on folks earning P60,000-a-month or higher.
he never said he’d lower taxes. just that he wouldnt increase them
“he never said he’d lower taxes. just that he wouldnt increase them”
So far, sin tax and text tax lang naman ang controversial.
Sa sin tax wala akong problema kahit ipasa ito sa consumer pero sa text tax, siguro sa simula lang ang impact nito at tulad ng ibang tax ay makakasanayan din.
Cocoy,
remember the blog of yours about transaction fees and make them taxable?
http://filipinovoices.com/tomorrow-on-the-road-to-2010/
now what do you think about this idea?
Let’s hope the automated election system really succeed inspite of mounting indications that it may not. One area that could potentially explode into a chaotic situation is the matter of customization. What is customization? It is the process of rewriting the software in order to fit the functionalities of the machine to the unique requirements of the precinct. Note that each voting district has unique candidates and results, meaning, the machines are not interchangeable between voting districts. COMELEC refused to disclose the technical details of the software. Is the software embedded in the machine, or is it a loadable executable file? The published General Instructions (GI) of COMELEC that embodies all procedural instructions the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) does not mention a loading procedure for software. Therefore, it can be presumed that the software is embeded in the machine,i.e., written on a chip attached to the machine, or an executable file preloaded by the COMELEC. The GI does not mention whether the list of candidates can be verified, at least, by a display of the names on the screen before voting starts. But even if the candidate’s name is displayed on the screen, there is no assurance that his votes are properly counted. There is still the need to determine that the customization accurately assigned the particular ballot mark position to the candidate’s credit? Will COMELEC allow any candidate to verify that his name is included in the machine and the functionalities are correct? How? COMELEC will probably not allow any verification simply because of the sheer number of potential requests – 80,000 machines x 300 estimated average candidates per voting district. But this software function is the most crucial aspect of the automated election system – the vote for a candidate is credited to that particular candidate. If no independent verification is allowed by the COMELEC and the customization is simply left to the sole discretion of the programmer, then the potential for fraud is really open. The imposed secrecy surrounding the software does not help assuage the fear that the elections will be rigged.
Anything is possible in this good country of ours, the PHILIPPINES…
Cheating is already a advanced practiced ART for most Politicians.
In Short:
It has been said, “Investing in the future is what should everyone be doing, and there is no better way to devoting the effort to the fundamental of taxes. The distinction can only see what a number of families it maintains, and to pay attention to how it reacts upon industry, it is an inexhaustible stream, it is the reproduction through changes and adaptation to the environment.”
The authoritative direction to this doctrine, is a well organize administration shall introduce by something preliminary of taxing. Political economist have known in the past, that a satisfactory manner to its arguments were not so pleasantly entertaining, that it could be said of them, reiteration if you please. Obviously, therefore, turned the didactic sentence to its own use, adequately convinced that, in its utterance, reiterations teach.
The opportunity which officials advocate are supposed to be understood, or by way of emphasis, and are seen. The advantageous which accrues to the providers is still that which is seen. This also, gives us, lacking sense of sights. Or, should I say “Blind Us All.”
To benefit for the good of the services, it is essential to encompass certain offices with grandeur and nobility, as to appealing men of merit to them. A boundless of unfortunate persons apply to the President of the Republic, and certainly be placing him in a very inconspicuous position, to constrain him to be invariably refusing them. An inevitable style, and with delegated executive authority, is an assemblage of constitutional governments.
How can we “ASSUME” that we know exactly where the danger to our freedom lies. This can also, makes an ASS of U and ME. Was the active opposition of the fascist regimes really simply an intellectual influence, and instigated by those whose entitled were abolished by social progress. And sure enough, the direction of affairs of these Cronies has been taken out of the hands of the working classes, and has been placed in those of a more efficient oligarchy. “On the contraty, have the new sovereign not taken over the underlying priciples and procedures and simply turned them to their remunerative selfishness:”
The opportunity to choose of men[woman] cannot be predicted; in addition to what has been said, they cannot even be compare. Hence, there cannot be any mathematical economics apart from the science of statistics, to give an account to what has happened, nor foreseeing to happen. The Filipinos will speculate on the future, due to their deep rooted in the past. It is unknown; but it can be pushed into utterly unforeseeable forms by invention, imagination, the spirit of adventure, and the willingness to take chances. Wake up Pinoy-in-Pinas, this is your world, and the Island I Was Born Into…!
Okay, time to compile a list:
Those with the courage to choose:
For Noynoy: Cocoy, jcc, manuelbuencamino
For Villar, Gordon, Estrada: no one yet
For Perlas: hmmm, I forgot
Joe
Oh, and Mr. Teodoro: hmmm, wonder why he escaped my mind
I am 50% GIBO.. lol
aay, namamangka sa dalawang ilog.
Noynoy/Mar ako
I will vote for my carabao. My carabao is not plastic. He
does not lie. And, is a good worker.
Abe is also pro Aquino. Schumey too.
I find most of Noynoy’s policy proposals agreeable. Whether doable or not, or Noynoy has the ability to put them in place, we’ll see. Still, he should pay attention to the issue of Hacienda Luisita which is close to home. How does he intend to resolve this problem once elected? After all, the Hacienda is but a microcosm of what’s wrong with this country. Just as he is a scion of a revered mother and father for which reason mainly people think him an inspiring leader fit to be president, what part of him still carries the genes of ancestors who perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in Philippine history?
ricelander,
get over it. productive and mechanized sugarland to be distributed to farmers under the key-concept of individual-farmer-owner without capital and technical-know of the CARP how will result fo pockets of unproductive sugarlands.
pls see my comment at January 24, 2010 at 1:46 am
of course you are free to disagree.
Gibo ironically has some sensible idea on Agrarian Reform
Very nice Noynoy. Just like the rest though, I bet most of the candidates can “say” that. Those are just words, I need an example. Can someone from this site give me the thing”s” the “Aquinos’” has done(beneficially) to this country.
Platforms for me are to be discussed/debate by all the candidates live n TV, then we should see who deserves to be the leader.. So far, this type of broadcasting a platform is a preconception and shouldn’t be a ground for anybody to vote a candidate since most of them can deliver a pleasing platform such as this.