If you were clapping every time the new president paused during his first ever State of the Nation Address last July 30, clearly, you weren’t thinking it over.
Yes, he said he was planning to sign his first Executive Order that would create what he called the Truth Commission, and just days ago, he didn’t fail us in his promise to do so, but would exposing the past administration’s corruption be enough to help his beloved countrymen towards the tuwid na daan that everyone around him dreams?
Exposing the truth is not all fun and sun when you don’t have anything to offer as a solution if it happens again. And to that, I don’t remember him mentioning a clear and strategic plan. On top of that, it was mostly focused on accusations.
Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio Arroyo wasn’t even wrong when he said that it sounded a campaign.
We can only expect these things to continue if the president wouldn’t show competency in his six-year stay in Malacañang.
Moreover, when he said that he’s planning to lessen the pages of application forms, I wasn’t expecting anyone to shout their hurrays and bow down to the president for a plan so great. It wasn’t a good thing to do after all.
Why, you say? It’s true when he said that “Kung walang kurap, walang mahirap.” Let’s add something more to that: “Kung walang tamad, walang mahirap.” What’s wrong with an eight-page application form, anyway? It couldn’t be called remedy when all it does is teach Filipinos to resort to laziness.
In the end, the president that fifteen million Filipinos voted for the position would never make the difference if the rest of the country wouldn’t, as he put it, join to be part of the solution.
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