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Bulatlat Contributors | Sep 7, 2010
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Save as PDFIn First Sona, Aquino Promises Windfall for Business, ‘Not Much’ for Poor Filipinos
In First Sona, Aquino Promises Windfall for Business, ‘Not Much’ for Poor Filipinos
By BULATLAT STAFF
No mention of land reform, no promise of any wage hike, no hint that the budget for education and basic social services will be increased, no reference to the reality that debt servicing eats into the national budget more than the corruption at the MWSS or Napocor or NFA, and no acknowledgment of the fact that the cease-fire precondition for the resumption of the peace talks with the Communists is the same precondition that bogged down previous negotiations.
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