The D Spot

Three days ago, on July 26, 2010, President Noynoy Aquino delivered his first State of the Nation Address (SONA). After dispensing with the formalities, he went ahead and revealed what was probably the first true state of the nation—a country riddled with anomalies in the Metropolitan Waterworks Sewerage System (MWSS), National Food Authority (NFA), National Power Corportaion (Napocor), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT). Aside from this, we enter the second half of the year with only a little over 6% left on the national budget to spend for the remaining five months of the year.

Finally! The highest ranking person in government telling and confirming to us what we’ve known all along! Listening to the SONA, you can’t help but yell out “I knew it!” or “Oh my ghad! Sabi ko na nga ba!”

Now what?

If you listened to the SONA carefully, you’ll notice that after all the mind blowing statistics and highly inflammatory statements, there’s really not that much meat to the speech (me-thinks). The best tagline newspapers in the country could come up with was “No more tong-pats”.

In terms of delivering quote memorable SONAs , at least former Presdient Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (PGMA) had “Super Regions” as a quotable quote during the 2009 SONA. Her SONAs always made it seem like there was so much potential in the country. The way she delivered her economic report, I sometimes thought she was talking about another country!

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