Empty pledges
On Independence Day, Noynoy again went big with promises — but empty promises they are.
They are as empty as the promises he made during his inauguration at Luneta on June 30, 2010.
As a matter of fact, his Independence Day speech was clearly a rehash of his inaugural address. No doubt it was his bid to recapture the “enthusiasm” he generated to his supporters after his poll victory, with his repeat of his “You are my boss” line.
Unfortunately, he forgets that he will have been in the presidency for a full year by the end of June, and he has already been found wanting by many Filipinos, including many of his supporters. That enthusiasm generated cannot be revived — not with another round of pledges that can hardly be delivered.
Noynoy vowed that the country under him will be free from corruption, poverty and hunger, even stressing that there are more jobs for Filipinos under his regime, apart from other pledges.
Noynoy is 51 years old and apparently, either he still believes in fairy tales, or he believes the fairy tales his Palace elves feed him, because the reality, as shown by data — both official and survey — certainly does not reflect that which he claimed at the Luneta Park the other day.
The first quarter growth showed a slowdown, to 4.9 percent, which is probably lower since his officials have changed the growth formula again — and the second quarter growth is not expected to zoom either.
In any growth, given the huge imbalance between the Filipino poor, or some 70 to 80 percent of the population, and the rich, numbering some 15 percent, it is the wealthy that benefit some 80 percent of the 4.9 percent growth, while the poor get the 15 percent of the pie, if they ever benefit from the growth at all.
Yet Noynoy had the audacity to claim that “where before, the question of the poor Filipinos was ‘where do I get the money to feed my family?’ Today, the majority of the Filipinos only have this thought in mind, ‘what dish will I give my wife and children today?’”
As for his claimed jobs he saus he and his administration generated, he had the same misplaced audacity to claim that before, the overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East could not come home because they feared they would go hungry if they returned to their homeland. But now under his administration, Noynoy claimed, what OFWs are now looking at are quality jobs.
Noynoy and his propagandists continue to live in a dream world, but dangerously so, especially if they believe that which they peddle.
But economists — including Noynoy — know, or at least ought to know, that not even a 7.3 percent gross domestic product growth has arrested the rising poverty and hunger in this country under his administration.
How then can Noynoy be sincere in his pledge that Filipinos will be poverty and hunger-free, given the fact that the economic growth may not hit even 7 percent this year?
To stress the obvious, even with the country having experienced an economic growth of more than 7 percent last year, this certainly won’t serve to eradicate poverty and hunger.
Besides, in his one year in Malacañang, Noynoy failed to generate jobs, nor even reduced hunger and poverty in the country. Nor, for that matter, has he rid his government of corruption.
Evidently, he is banking on his public-private partnership program to generate jobs. But again, the way he is going about it, it is unlikely that big ticket foreign investors will be making a beeline for his PPP projects because of the reputation being earned by Noynoy and his government of not honoring contracts approved by the previous governments.
The presidential logic is so shot. Saying militant groups have been complaining that the available jobs are found in call centers, he therefore concludes that even the critics have admitted that there really are jobs in the Philippines.
Noynoy is certainly going to flunk Syllogism 101.
As for the country under his government being corruption-free, there is not even an iota of evidence that his government is rid of corruption.
His promises are no different from that written in a paper boat and also drowning in a sea of lies and anomalies.
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