Happy Birthday former President Noynoy Aquino!
You and your achievements are sorely missed.
• GDP growth was around 7% — sinayang ni Duterte at sumadsad simula nuong umalis si PNoy hanggang ngayon 4.4% na lang
• Foreign Direct Investment was the highest in our history — bumaba investor confidence simula nuong maupo si Duterte at niloko sya ng China
• Classroom shortage was zero — now 165,000 classrooms short mostly thanks to Sara Duterte for creating the backlog
• Foreign debt was at its lowest (₱5.9T) — now ₱17.7T mostly thanks to Duterte
• Walang ghost projects nuon, walang flood control scam, and DPWH Sec. Babes Singson minimized corruption and SOP to 10% now it’s 25% to 30% “commitments”
• The economy was the most promising in Southeast Asia — now back to being the “sick man”
Most importantly, nung ginagawan ng issue at mga kaso si PNoy from Dengvaxia to Mamasapano eh hindi sya nag tago — pumunta sya sa Senado at hindi umattend na naka wheelchair.
He led by example — accountability with no excuses.
Happy birthday!
#PnoyLegacy
#GoodGovernance
Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Under the present circumstances, your absence has become more pronounced.
ONE SOLITARY PUBLIC SERVAT
He was born into a dynasty,
but he never treated power as inheritance.
He studied, served, waited
and when history called,
he did not pretend to be extraordinary.
He held no dictatorship in his hands,
no cult of personality at his back.
He commanded no armies loyal to him,
owned no business empire,
and built no monuments to himself.
He governed with no theatrics.
He spoke plainly, often in Filipino,
often without flourish,
but always with a stubborn belief
that rules mattered
and institutions were worth defending.
He inherited a government accustomed to shortcuts
but he insisted on process.
He faced crises that demanded rage
and responded with restraint.
When decisions went against him,
he respected them
even when they constrained him.
He did not enrich himself in office.
He broke rice bowls that enriched the few.
He used resources of the state
to lift the poorest from poverty.
He did not weaponize government for personal vengeance.
He trusted that transparency, though slow,
would outlast noise.
He respected accountability,
even when charges were filed against him
and only later dismissed.
He faced a giant beyond our shores
and chose law over bravado.
Outmatched in arms,
he stood his ground with principle.
He brought a great power before the judgment of nations
and let the world decide.
When the ruling came,
it affirmed not might, but right
and proved that even the small,
when steadfast,
need not bow.
Under his stewardship, the economy grew.
The international financial community
granted the country investment-grade ratings
we had never known before.
We held our heads high abroad,
and nations around the world
respected and envied our standing.
He left office with no fortune,
no dynasty expanded,
no loyal machinery demanding his return.
He went back to private life
as quietly as he entered public service.
He died without calling himself a hero.
Nearly every reformist ideal we now invoke:
clean governance, independent institutions,
respect for the rule of law
passes, in some way,
through the choices he made
when he had the power to choose otherwise.
And though he governed for only six years
without spectacle or myth,
the question he left behind
continues to trouble the nation:
If leadership can be decent,
if power can be restrained,
if public office can be treated as a trust
THEN why do we keep settling for less?
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To the Chinese Embassy in Manila: I have no problem respecting and recognizing the One China policy. In return China should respect the Philippines’ 500,000 square kilometers of our EEZ under the UNCLOS by abandoning their RIDICULOUS and ILLEGAL claim of 90 percent of the West Philippine/South China Sea.
To borrow the American saying, ‘If you can dish it out, you should learn to take it’.
We respect China’s view that Taiwan is part of China but China should respect our position that the Philippines’ EEZ is NOT part of China AND, for that matter, we are not and will never be a province of China.
We respect the Chinese people but we will never bow down to Xi Jinping’s illegal policy claims in the region. NEVER.
Speaking of being reminded, we would like to redpectfully remind China that the Philippine Senate showed the United States of America the door in 1991 by rejecting the 1991 RP-US Bases Treaty. We said NO to the world’s only superpower then in upholding our sovereignty. Whether the US or China, no world superpower can be allowed to intimidate us.
Don’t me. Don’t us.*
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*Embassy interpreter pls interpret my English Tagalog. Xie xie.
Numbers don't lie. Unfortunately, the DDS hype and extra fantastically twisted imagination is the new truth.
So shut up nalang mga economist and statisticians jan sa gedli.
#DutertePaRin 🤣
If you pay attention to the patterns of your life, you’ll realize that everything always works out. You survived what once felt impossible, not by accident, but by design. There’s a divine rhythm behind the chaos, a wisdom guiding the unfolding. So breathe. Trust where you are.
@ZUSCoffee You do follow the PWD/ Senior Citizen Discount. I have tried your branch in Araneta City. We have to ask for it always. Reason given by your staff is it in your system.