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Oliver Christain D. Deyparine 8/3/09BSME IV

Summary of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyos2009 State of the Nation Address

lower public debt to GDP ratio from 78% in2000 to 55% in 2008

cut in half debt of government corporations from15% to 7%

foreign debt from 73% to 32%

IRA allocated P40 billion

Pantawid Pamilya benefited 700,000beneficiaries in cash handouts

CARP benefited 700,000 indigenous people inun-numbered millions of hectares of land andland ownerships to 1 million beneficiaries

Micro Finance benefited 7 million entrepreneurs

in P165 billion loans NFA rice sold at P18.25 per kilo compared to

P30 in the market; palay bought at P17 fromonly P11

farm-to-market roads in un-numbered thousandsof kilometers

cut in half prices in 16 or more drugs

health insurance covered 86% of population

Emergency Employment Program benefited100,000 beneficiaries

Pabahay at Palupa benefited 1 million families

Pantawid Kuryente benefited 7 million smallhouseholds in P500 rebate

built 95,000 classrooms; 60,000 new teachers;teacher training for 100,000 English teachers atan appropriation of P1.5 billion

provided college and post-graduate education for600,000 scholars

pardon given to 700 OFWs in Saudi throughGMAs intercession

OFWs in Kuwait were commuted deathsentences through GMA

net foreign direct investments multiplied 15times

OFWs more than doubled foreign exchangereserves to grow to $3 billion

uninterrupted growth of 33 quarters; more thandoubled from $76 billion to $186 billion;average GDP growth from 2001 to the 1stquarter of 2009 is highest in 43 years

number of poor reduced by 2 million

GNP per capita rose from a Third World $967 to$2,000

8 million jobs created at the average rate of 1million a year

Reaction:

People always blamed the President. Let us all blame ourselves; its us who should contribute to the government. Peoplealways blame this administration for poverty. Always blaming for our economy. We should know its a global recessionand as what Obama said it will not be healed overnight. The problem is not a one-punch-solution. Its a long term. Thefuture President will benefit what our current President doing. The next President will surely say that its him who didsomething for the country without counting what the previous government had done.

I think our president is doing her responsibility as our president at her best why are these critics are only criticizing the

negative issues about the president why dont they look on the good things that the president have done for the countrywhy dont they help her instead of giving them negative criticism this critiques doesnt help us.

This is overly ridiculous, PGMA has more projects than any of the other presidents before her. Now we are living in the

world full of criticism and opposition thats why the country is brought down. What if we help PGMA instead of bringing

on destructive criticism against her. Ignore those sikat & guapo na mga presidentiables/senatoriables.

I hope Filipino people will wake up from those opposition media fairytales and start help the President, unfortunatelythere is only one year left for her. And about the debts which is 4 trillion plus. I calculated how many years will it take if60% of the Filipino people will pay a peso a day to clear the debt. It will take 50 years, 8 months and 24 days!!!