Presidents State Of The Nation's Address 2008

Yesterday, I watched the (SONA) State of the Nation Address of the president of the Philippines Madamme Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. It was just the same old "sona" where in she gave promises to the Filipino people. In the evening of that same day, I also watched the "Harapan" episode that is anchored by the two popular Philippine broadcasters from ABS-CBN broadcasting network Mr. Ted Failon and Ms. Korina Sanchez. They have several government officials guest that came from the different government agencies. It was said that the rating of the president went down to negative 21 because all of the promises that were given on the previous SONA were not implemented. They compared the SONA individually starting from her first year where she became a president of the republic. They tackle education, infrastructures, increase in salaries, create more jobs, sufficient food for every Filipino family and more... but if you see the reality inspite of her claims that Filipinos were still lucky enough compared to the neighboring countries. Filipinos were already suffering from hunger. Most of the regular families who eat meals three times a day before now skipped meals due to lack of budget. It is really difficult to believe the presidents "SONA" because we are not experiencing the life that she is explaining in her SONA. You can't blame people who gave negative reactions to her, because they don't see any difference from her previous SONA. The two broadcasters ask the gentlemen regarding the rice shortage. They said that, If you ask Mr. Arthur Yap of the Department of Agriculture you will hear good results stating that we don't have a rice shortage but what is the reality. You can see people falling in line in NFA (National Food Authority) market outlet just to get three kilos of rice. I have read that the government had a 30 billion pesos rice subsidy for this year. This is a large amount of money. The amount will help fund the rice distribution activities of the state-owned grains trader and distributor, National Food Authority. Right now, there are already prices of rice that you can buy less than 40 pesos for the commercial one. I hope the rice problem in our country will be settled as soon as possible so that every Filipino family will have a sufficient food supply.