GMA is not fooling anyone, says youth partylist
Youth mark April Fools Day
President Gloria Arroyo took the center stage in a press conference held by Kabataan Partylist in Quezon City today to brag about her accomplishments and plans for the Filipino people. The activity, apparently, was part of Kabataan Partylist’s celebration of the April Fools Day.
“There’s no better way to mark the April Fools Day than to hark back to our very own President’s Arroyo’s incredible claims, assertions and projections for the country,” Kabataan Partylist Vice President Carl Marc Ramota said.
Ramota said Arroyo’s plans are not only unrealistic, they are plainly absurd.
“Arroyo wants to eradicate hunger in six months, but all that her government is doing are feeding programs that only cater to a limited number of students for a limited period; not to mention the kind of food that they are actually feeding the children with.”
“The government also claims that it will give education to Filipinos yet the Philippines continues to be one of the poorest spenders on education in Asia.”
“The Arroyo administration is only offering knee-jerk answers to problems which require careful planning and long-term solutions. Worse, Arroyo is actually saying one thing but her policies speak otherwise.”
“The president is also bragging of creating one million jobs for new graduates and 10 million jobs for her whole second term but the only jobs that the government can offer are in abroad or outsourcing jobs which are not commensurate to the finished degrees of most college graduates,” he pointed out.
Ramota added that the deployment of military troops in Metro Manila, the political persecution of known government critics and unresolved spate of political killings also disprove government claims that it is for a peaceful and honest elections.
“She must be taking us Filipinos for fools, but she isn’t fooling anybody. Filipinos know better.”