Aquino starting to sound like Arroyo, says Bayan

3:13 pm | Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

MANILA, Philippines—After a survey firm showed a drop in President Benigno Aquino III’s satisfaction rating, the militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said the Chief Executive should start addressing the demands of the public, adding that he sounded like former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in “dismissing” survey results.

Aquino reacted to the survey, saying, “Governance should not be survey-driven . . . We will push for what is right.”

“President Aquino is beginning to sound like Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He dismisses survey results on his lower satisfaction ratings and says he’d rather be right than popular. That’s exactly what Arroyo said in the past and that became her own undoing,” Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes Jr. said in a statement.

Reyes recalled that Arroyo said in 2007 “she would rather be right than popular” when defending her fiscal reforms such as the value-added tax.

Bayan said that the SWS nationwide survey was done between March 10 to 13, a period before the term ‘noynoying’ was introduced to the public.

“[President] Aquino only has himself to blame. Even before the ‘noynoying’ term caught on, the public sentiment against the President’s inaction was already there. Don’t blame the activists, Mr. President. Look only to government’s performance,” Reyes Jr. said.

He said the drop in the satisfaction rating of the President could indicate that the people are not satisfied with the President’s excuse that he is helpless in curbing, or mitigating the effects of oil price increases.

“The dissatisfaction especially among the poor may increase as power rates rise, oil prices remain high, and wages remain depressed,” Reyes Jr. said.

Bayan said that Aquino’s intransigence on many proposals to alleviate the public’s economic burdens, including the removal of the VAT on oil and calls for a wage hike, may further erode his approval ratings.

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Guest

I wonder what is the satisfaction rating of Bayan should there be a survey on how the common man perceives it. What has Bayan done to improve the Philippine society other than producing acitivists many of whom became cadres in the leftist movement, Bayan being a legal front of the underground movement.

OlliuQ

Believe, since their (militant group and activist) existence they always oppose the Government, well that is why called activist. They can not afford to collaborated with the Gov’t. because it also lead to their extinction. They are the wake-up call of Government official but I do know whether they are helpful or not???

virgo57

Bayan, Anak Pawis & all pseudo cause oriented groups knows nothing but to sabotage the Philippines economy. You are mercenaries and paid hacked of Mainland China and Malaysia. Their leaders are anti society and hypocrites and they deserved Palparans way.

http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

The Philippine economy needs no sabotaging. It has been backward from the very beginning. Unless the government undertakes a genuine national industrialization program that harnesses our resources instead of allowing foreigners to plunder and exploit our minerals and our people, we will never progress. And that is what these “cause oriented groups” have been proposing all along.

Look who’s the mercenary and paid hack here.

sacrebleau

The problem is there aren’t enough foreigners, too many backward commies!

indiosbravos2002

How come puro short term solution lang kayang isipin ng BAYAN? The gas issue is not under our control. The best strategy is to ride it out.

http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

Short term solution? Buying back Petron and nationalizing oil procurement, implementing a genuine alternative energy program–short term solution? True enough, there are external factors that cause the increase in local gas prices, but the government is not the helpless lame duck Noynoy wants us to perceive it to be. It has broad powers that it can use to address the crisis.

indiosbravos2002

Buying back Petron is not a solution and in fact is not in sync with the government’s aim of privatizing noncore government companies that the government has no competency to run. It will cost billions of pesos to buy the company which the government does not have (and the BIR unfortunately will not be able to fund) and will only cause a bigger budget deficit, not to mention, the possibility of some politicians making it their personal cash cow. Im not sure with your idea of nationalizing oil procurement and alternative energy program. Because as far as I know we have NONE…ZERO…NADA. Oil procurement is 100% foreign and thats a fact. Arroyos’s jojoba oil alternative was a scam. Malampaya prpject is somewhere between limbo and earth. Even the most powerful nation, the US is feeling the oil crunch and they cant do anything about it.
If youve invented a car that can run on h2o, ptobably you’ll have a chance but as of now, its all lip service by the militants.
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

So bakit mo sinabing puro short term solutions lang ang sinasabi ng BAYAN? You accept those “realities” as the default position, the inevitable way to be, that there is no alternative. The national democrats have challenged it from the very beginning. It is not impossible to buy back Petron. It is not impossible to reverse privatization. It is not impossible to implement an oil regulation law. It is not impossible to fund technological researches. The only people who think otherwise are those who have have been sold wholesale to the neoliberal dogma that there is no alternative to the present order.
indiosbravos2002

In an idealistic state, what you’ve mentioned are ALL possible as a matter of fact, everything is possible. In an idealistic state, money is not an issue. The Philippines should be a first world country because of its rich natural resources. But reality kicks in… There is no such thing as ideal. We have limited resources. We are a third world country for christ’s sakes. What you are proposing requires immense FUNDS that the Natonal budget can not accomodate.
Buy back petron… For what? Reverse privatization.. For what? Fund researches??? The last one funded for 3billion by GMA did not produce sh@t. We cant even fund the maintenance of research projects of the DOST.. There are things that are good to have… If the money is available.
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

So ano yung sinasabi mong short term proposal lang ang kayang isipin ng BAYAN?
sacrebleau

Puro dakdak lang ang alam ng BAYAN.
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

Mukhang ikaw din. Tingnan mo nga yang comment history mo.
sacrebleau

Well, thank you for your interest in my comment history, that’s a lot of effort for an outspoken commie. Why don’t you plant trees or something? Make other parts of your body useful other than your mouth :p
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

Not really, just takes a few clicks. You put a lot of effort for a mad anonymous “anti-commie” you know, leaving baseless nonsense all over news websites. Why don’t YOU plant trees or something.
sacrebleau

What makes you think I haven’t planted trees? I make my contribution, I have farmlands – and this is where you commies come in with your revolutionary tax and Mao drama- just for that I should personally kick your commie a$$. Ehe ehe he he
indiosbravos2002

Wag kang masyadong maniniwala sa bayan. Lip service lang yan.
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

Ok. Tawag sa ginagawa mo?
indiosbravos2002

Ano tawag sa ginagawa mo? Lip service. Get a real job. Pay your tax. Dont join the red revolution because there is none.
http://twitter.com/bikoy Victor Villanueva

Judgments out of thin air! If I told you I had a job (which I do) and I pay tax, like every merchandise buying Filipino does? You should get a real job and not leave nonsense all over news websites.
indiosbravos2002

Had a job? Hehehe. Dude, yong dole-out na 500 pesos sa rallies, hindi income yon.

Thats all you pay? VAT. WAHAHA
Juan Miguel Tanjuakio

wala namang nagawang maganda yang Bayan, panay panggugulo lang.
Guest

Your ideas are all good but what I am saying is that they might not be realistic. You need money and consider the long term consequences. Short term wise it might be a good plan but 10-20 yrs down the line, who knows? But Im all for you man. Look for the funds and it might be a reality.

sacrebleau

Noisy communists!
Juan Miguel Tanjuakio

I don’t trust those people, full of noxious lies and twists.

Wala naman talaga sila satisfaction hanggat di nagiging presidente si Mr. JOMA na nakatira sa isang maunlad at progresibong “CAPITALIST” country tulad ng Netherlands.

Sila ang mga modernong “Makapili” ng panahong ito, yung ngalang tuta sila ng Red China at pinopondohan nila mga maoist groups dito, malaki kaya sahod ng mga rallyista at vandalizers?

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