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STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
PRESIDENT BENIGNO “noynoy” AQUINO III

TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE House of Representatives to establish that in many ways she had assimilated to the FILIPINO way of life to gain credibility for her claim our late President CORY AQUINO. THE rhetorical means than in the seventeenth century, but the result of the year of 2010 was the same. First STATE OF Nations ADDRESS of the communities were being pushed to the margins of a dominant PHILIPPINE society of our national hero Benigno “Ninoy”Aquino. As the matter is regulated by laws or regulations or is subject to the control of public authorities, shall accord to stateless persons lawfully staying in their territory treatment as favorable as possible and, in any event, not less favourable than that accorded to aliens generally in the same circumstances.

In the OFFICE of accession, regional economic integration organizations shall declare the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by this SONA. These organizations shall also inform the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES of the extent of their competence with respect to the matters governed by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, recourse to regional bodies, judicial process or other peaceful means of their own choice.

Which was enough for him “to know that we didn’t have to be all in our separate boxes – by which I don’t just mean the business of trying for isolated reforms, but also the kind of Left sectarianism which isn’t interested in working (or working honestly) with anyone who doesn’t already agree with you.” And of course at some level there is still a lot of complacency within the movements as well as outside. Internally this manifests itself as cynicism, as reducing everything down to what’s already known, and perhaps most of all as “organisational patriotism” – that the real goals often remain limited to organisation-building or to very local goals.

Competition policy is but one of the policy fields designed to secure national policy objectives. Others focus on increased efficiency and entrepreneurial activity. Complementarity and consistency between these fields of economic policy is important. Where complementarity is not possible, explicit trade-offs have to be made between the objectives of various policy fields. Thus, we have to consider the interaction between competition policy and policies related to international trade and industrial strategy, public corporations, Professions and empowerment.There is no exclusiveness in our public life, and in our private business we are not suspicious of one another, nor angry with our neighbor if he does what he likes; we do not put on sour looks at him which, though harmless, are not pleasant. While we are thus unconstrained in our private business, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts; we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for the authorities and for the laws, having a particular regard to those which are ordained for the protection of the injured as well as those unwritten laws which bring upon the transgressor of them the reprobation of the general sentiment.The people are mostly conservative in their habits. They feel pride in the native culture and are generally not receptive to foreign methods of production. People lack self confidence and initiative. The joint family system, though on the decline, has also killed the sense of initiative and the incentive to work. The caste system functioning mostly in terms of occupation tailors, carpenters, goldsmiths, etc restrict occupational and geographical mobility. The occupational classification which is mostly village centered impede the economic development. The religious beliefs of the people condemning the accumulation of wealth, dependence upon fate and the will of God only are also obstacles to economic growth. People forget here that God has also said, ”Your duty is to do and then put the result in the hands of God.”-BY NINOY AQUINO.“

How do they compare with the proposals put forward in the Progressive Economists Statement? What are some of the financial and macroeconomic policies that need to be implemented now for the Philippine to design and implement macroeconomic and financial policies that will address the serious short term problems we face, while promoting a sustainable and egalitarian path to future development?governments and other social institutions for them to work efficiently and serve the needs of society. Economic policies should aim to promote green growth, while reversing the stagnating wages, extreme inequality, growing insecurity, and lax regulatory conditions that have led to debt-driven spending booms. Only then will the Philippine achieve sustainable and widely-shared growth.”

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Revive the economy by instituting a massive public investment and financial support program focusing on jobs, housing, state and local services, green investments, and infrastructure investments, supported by expansionary monetary policy.
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Reform the financial sector bailouts to be fairer, less costly and more effective, by broadening and strengthening the oversight of financial institutions and using government leverage to realize significant changes in how these financial institutions operate.
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Reverse extreme inequality and increase the prosperity and power of families and communities.
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Re-regulate and restructure the financial sector.
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Reform international economic governance to make the transition to a more balanced, prosperous and just global economy appropriate to changing global realities.
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Reverse extreme inequality and restore family and community health. Policies to reverse this extreme inequality must restore the power of workers to bargain for a decent living. These were among the most important policies.

Governments lacked the tax instruments to raise revenue domestically to finance the required infrastructure investment and were unable to raise capital on global markets (they could not issue bonds in their own currencies—the ‘original sin’—and lacked the creditworthiness to float foreign currency debt). At the same time, foreign private capital was unable to internalize the social returns to investment. In this environment, temporary official capital inflows channelled through governments appeared to offer the prospect both of augmenting low levels of domestic saving and directing resources into high social-return investments, such as the transport infrastructure and education, thereby raising returns to private investment.

They come and they go, often leaving little or nothing behind in the way of accumulated knowledge. It is natural that we think of ourselves as the tip of progress’s arrow, but intellectual history demands a more humble interpretation. Just as academics of past generations usually seem wrong-headed to us, so too are we likely to appear to the next. Nevertheless, for good or ill, when political science sneezes, public affairs more often than not catches a cold. Political science has sneezed. (That rational choice thinking often seems to have come to public management via a detour through political science is a rather curious situation. We might be better advised to go directly to its source disciplines.)Who learns the scientific method and, most importantly, applies its precepts, whether he or she is investigating nature or not. When one uses the methods and principles of scientific thinking in everyday life–such as when studying history or literature, investigating societies or governments, seeking solutions to problems of economics or philosophy, or just trying to answer personal questions about oneself or the meaning of existence–one is said to be practicing critical thinking. Critical thinking is thinking correctly for oneself that successfully leads to the most reliable answers to questions and solutions to problems. In other words, critical thinking gives you reliable knowledge about all aspects of your life and society, and is not restricted to the formal study of nature. Scientific thinking is identical in theory and practice, but the term would be used to describe the method that gives you reliable knowledge about the natural world. Clearly, scientific and critical thinking are the same thing, but where one (scientific thinking) is always practiced by scientists, the other (critical thinking) is sometimes used by humans and sometimes not.This definition emphasizes the strong link between science and natural evidence and law, and it reveals that our best understanding of material reality and existence is ultimately based on philosophy. This is not bad, however, for, whether naturalism is ultimately true or not, science and naturalism reject the concept of ultimate or absolute truth in favor of a concept of proximate reliable truth that is far more successful and intellectually satisfying than the alternative, the philosophy of supernaturalism. The supernatural, if it exists, cannot be examined or tested by science, so it is irrelevant to science. It is impossible to possess reliable knowledge about the supernatural by the use of scientific and critical thinking. Individuals who claim to have knowledge about the supernatural do not possess this knowledge by the use of critical thinking, but by other methods of knowing. Anybody who has understood the meaning of complementarity will reject this question as too much simplified and missing the point. But this rejection does not solve the problem whether the new theory is consistent with the idea of an objective world, existing independently of the observer. The difficulty is not the two aspects, but the fact that no description of any natural phenomenon in the atomistic domain is possible without referring to the observer, not only to his velocity as in relativity, but to all his activities in performing the observation, setting up the instruments, and so on. The observation itself changes the order of events. How then can we speak of an objective world?

What is there similar to the conditions of everyday life which will generate difficulties? Almost everything testifies to the great premium put upon listening, reading, and the reproduction of what is told and read. It is hardly possible to overstate the contrast between such conditions and the situations of active contact with things and persons in the home, on the playground, in fulfilling of ordinary responsibilities of life. Much of it is not even comparable with the questions which may arise in the mind of a boy or girl in conversing with others or in reading books outside of the school. No one has ever explained why children are so full of questions outside of the school (so that they pester grown-up persons if they get any encouragement), and the conspicuous absence of display of curiosity about the subject matter of school lessons. Reflection on this striking contrast will throw light upon the question of how far customary school conditions supply a context of experience in which problems naturally suggest themselves. No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. There must be more actual material, more stuff, more appliances, and more opportunities for doing things, before the gap can be overcome.There is no inconsistency in saying that in schools there is usually both too much and too little information supplied by others. The accumulation and acquisition of information for purposes of reproduction in recitation and examination is made too much of. “Knowledge,” in the sense of information, means the working capital, the indispensable resources, of further inquiry; of finding out, or learning, more things. Frequently it is treated as an end itself, and then the goal becomes to heap it up and display it when called for. This static, cold-storage ideal of knowledge is inimical to educative development. It not only lets occasions for thinking go unused, but it swamps thinking. No one could construct a house on ground cluttered with miscellaneous junk. Pupils who have stored their “minds” with all kinds of material which they have never put to intellectual uses are sure to be hampered when they try to think. They have no practice in selecting what is appropriate, and no criterion to go by; everything is on the same dead static level. On the other hand, it is quite open to question whether, if information actually functioned in experience through use in application to the student’s own purposes, there would not be need of more varied resources in books, pictures, and talks than are usually at command.

The educational conclusion which follows is that all thinking is original in a projection of considerations which have not been previously apprehended. The child of three who discovers what can be done with blocks, or of six who finds out what he can make by putting five cents and five cents together, is really a discoverer, even though everybody else in the world knows it. There is a genuine increment of experience; not another item mechanically added on, but enrichment by a new quality. The charm which the spontaneity of little children has for sympathetic observers is due to perception of this intellectual originality. The joy which children themselves experience is the joy of intellectual constructiveness — of creativeness, if the word may be used without misunderstanding. The educational moral I am chiefly concerned to draw is not, however, that teachers would find their own work less of a grind and strain if school conditions favored learning in the sense of discovery and not in that of storing away what others pour into them; nor that it would be possible to give even children and youth the delights of personal intellectual productiveness — true and important as are these things. It is that no thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another.

That they should be allowed to invade the education of the elite is unspeakable. This conclusion follows irresistibly from the isolated conception of mind, but by the same logic it disappears when we perceive what mind really is — namely, the purposive and directive factor in the development of experience. While it is desirable that all educational institutions should be equipped so as to give students an opportunity for acquiring and testing ideas and information in active pursuits typifying important social situations, it will, doubtless, be a long time before all of them are thus furnished. But this state of affairs does not afford instructors an excuse for folding their hands and persisting in methods which segregate school knowledge.The “blooming” of modeling methods is not the problem; the lack of standardize techniques for evaluating them is. To further complicate the matter, most of the modeling methods are introduced based on common sense and intuition. Theoretical foundations and empirical evidence are severely lacking. With the current state of affairs, evaluation of modeling methods has become necessary. Comparing modeling methods provides us with the necessary knowledge and understanding on the strengths and weaknesses of each method. This knowledge can also guide us in our quest for the next modeling methods.

Ninoy and Cory Aquino are shown with their children Kris (left) and Ballsy in Boston.

MANILA, Philippines – The youngest daughter of the late former President Corazon Aquino, in a tearful recollection of the sufferings that her mother endured during her bout with cancer, asked her father Ninoy to look after her mother in heaven.“Dad, please take care of mom. It’s your turn now. You were her one and only love and now that you are together again, no matter how painful it is for us to let her go, we are comforted knowing that she is happy to be reunited with you,” Kris Aquino-Yap said between sobs.Kris, who was tasked to deliver the message of the family during yesterday morning’s requiem Mass at the Manila Cathedral, also expressed deep “gratitude for the respect, appreciation and love” that the Filipino people have shown theirmother“particularly in this time of bereavement.”But it was not only the people who wanted to say thank you and show their outpouring of support and love for the former leader, in return their mother also wanted to express gratitude.“One of the things that my mom asked me to do was to say thanks to all of you. You have given our family honor beyond anything we have hoped to receive,” she said.She added that for all the sacrifices her mother and father, former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., did for the country, their family believed that “the Filipinos are worth it.”This was the first of four rounds of applause Kris received from the more than 2,000 people inside the Manila Cathedral.“How do we say thank you for all your effort to fall in line even if it is raining or the weather is very hot just to catch a glimpse of our mother and show their respect and pray for her for the last time,” a teary-eyed Kris said.She said the last words their mother said to them was that they take care of each other, but she believes that the reminder was not only intended for her children but for every Filipino.Even after Mrs. Aquino ended her term in 1992, she remained a vanguard of democracy in the country because she believed that “public service does not end with one’s term of office.”Kris revealed that apart from making herself visible and available during those times when democracy was being threatened, her mother also started a foundation and named it after her husband Ninoy. She also initiated a micro-finance program to give livelihood opportunities for women all over the country.Mrs. Aquino was also known to have a strong and unwavering faith in God and believed in the goodness of every Filipino. She also prayed for those who were also afflicted.The Aquino family also thanked Fr. Catalino Arevalo for always being there for them, in times when they needed spiritual guidance.Kris said that they believed that a guardian angel would often guide Bataan Bishop Socrates Villegas because he knew whenever the family needed him.“In fact, the last time mom shed a tear was when you laid your healing hands on her. For the rest of our lives, we would be indebted to you,” Kris said.She said that their family was just like other families, and just like other mothers Mrs. Aquino gave her unconditional love without asking for anything in return.“She was a mother who never lost faith in the goodness of her children, but she would also reprimand her children if they commit an offense,” she explained.Like other families, Kris said they have their share of disagreements, trials and misunderstanding. But they have learned to forgive and comfort each other during difficult times.