Thursday, August 18, 2022
manilastandard.net
ADVERTISEMENT
  • About
  • News
    • Top Stories
    • National
    • World News
    • Pinoy Abroad
    • Features
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
    • Soundbytes
  • LGUs
    • NCR
    • Luzon
    • Visayas
    • Mindanao
  • Business
    • Corporate
    • Economy & Trade
    • Stocks
    • Money
    • Agri & Mining
    • Power & Tech
    • IT & Telecom
  • Sports
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • Fightsports
    • Active
    • Sports Plus
    • One Championship
    • Columns
  • Entertainment
    • TV & Movies
    • Celebrity Profiles
    • Music & Concerts
    • Digital Media
    • Columns
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Culture & Media
    • Fashion
    • Health and Home
    • Leisure
    • Shopping
    • Columns
  • Others
    • Pets
    • Pop.Life
      • Newsmakers
      • Hangouts
      • A-Pop
      • Post Its
      • Performances
      • Malls & Bazaars
      • Hobbies & Collections
    • Technology
      • Gadgets
      • Computers
      • Business
      • Tech Plus
    • MS ON THE ROAD
      • Sedan
      • SUV
      • Truck
      • Bike
      • Accessories
      • Motoring Plus
      • Commuter’s Corner
    • Home & Design
      • Residential
      • Commercial
      • Construction
      • Interior
    • Spotlight
    • Gallery
      • Photos
      • Videos
    • Events
      • Seminars
      • Exhibits
      • Community
    • Biyahero
      • Travel Features
      • Travel Reels
      • Travel Logs
  • Advertise with Us
No Result
View All Result
  • About
  • News
    • Top Stories
    • National
    • World News
    • Pinoy Abroad
    • Features
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
    • Soundbytes
  • LGUs
    • NCR
    • Luzon
    • Visayas
    • Mindanao
  • Business
    • Corporate
    • Economy & Trade
    • Stocks
    • Money
    • Agri & Mining
    • Power & Tech
    • IT & Telecom
  • Sports
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • Fightsports
    • Active
    • Sports Plus
    • One Championship
    • Columns
  • Entertainment
    • TV & Movies
    • Celebrity Profiles
    • Music & Concerts
    • Digital Media
    • Columns
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Culture & Media
    • Fashion
    • Health and Home
    • Leisure
    • Shopping
    • Columns
  • Others
    • Pets
    • Pop.Life
      • Newsmakers
      • Hangouts
      • A-Pop
      • Post Its
      • Performances
      • Malls & Bazaars
      • Hobbies & Collections
    • Technology
      • Gadgets
      • Computers
      • Business
      • Tech Plus
    • MS ON THE ROAD
      • Sedan
      • SUV
      • Truck
      • Bike
      • Accessories
      • Motoring Plus
      • Commuter’s Corner
    • Home & Design
      • Residential
      • Commercial
      • Construction
      • Interior
    • Spotlight
    • Gallery
      • Photos
      • Videos
    • Events
      • Seminars
      • Exhibits
      • Community
    • Biyahero
      • Travel Features
      • Travel Reels
      • Travel Logs
  • Advertise with Us
No Result
View All Result
manilastandard.net
No Result
View All Result
Home Opinion Editorial

Our own countdown

by
January 25, 2016, 12:01 am
in Editorial
Reading Time: 2 mins read
A A
72
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Email

AT a speech before members and supporters of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom last week, President Aquino began a countdown until the end of his term.

“Only 161 days remain before I am granted my own freedom to enjoy life as a private citizen,” Mr. Aquino said, reprising his role as the reluctant president who must sacrifice his creature comforts for the benefit of the Filipino people.

This is a role Mr. Aquino has played many times before.

On one occasion, he said he needed “to take at least a year’s break and recharge and recover from all the tensions, turmoil [and] concerns over the past six years.”

ADVERTISEMENT

He also said he looked forward to staying in bed without having to wake up too early, and “laze around and get used to living” in his house on Times Street again.

Like the President, we look forward to June 30, 2016, for similar reasons.

We too, can use a break from the tensions, turmoil and concerns caused by an inept, unfeeling, vindictive and unjust president.

We look forward to the housecleaning that must follow, particularly in agencies that Mr. Aquino has allowed his cronies to plunder. The Department of Transportation and Communications is a prime candidate—for all the pain and suffering it has caused to millions of motorists and commuters alike. In the last six years, the head of this department, Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya—an ally of the President—has allowed public transport services to deteriorate, letting commuter trains run late and even off the tracks, and making motorists wait more than a year for license plates for which they have already paid, all because of dubious maintenance and supply contracts he chose to sign.

We look forward to a government that has compassion for the working men and women, not one that rejects any form of tax relief for overburdened workers and denies elderly retirees even a measly increase in their Social Security System pensions, while granting the executives that run the agency obscene bonuses that run into millions of pesos.

June 30, we hope, will also mark the end of a president that applies justice selectively, targeting only his political enemies while sparing his friends and allies who have run their agencies into the ground. We certainly look forward to a just administration that will make Mr. Aquino and his cohorts accountable for the damage they have done, and for the crimes they have committed in the name of “the straight path.” These crimes would include the corruption of our democratic institutions through the wholesale bribery of lawmakers to convict by impeachment an uncooperative chief justice of the Supreme Court.

This quest for justice, however, need not be done in the vindictive manner in which Mr. Aquino has gone after and demonized his predecessor. The next administration need not sacrifice all the time, effort and resources toward persecuting its rivals or getting even, as Mr. Aquino has done in his six years. There are, after all, more important matters at hand—such as making this country more livable for the vast majority of Filipinos who have suffered under Mr. Aquino’s term.

Only 158 days until we have a new leader. We can hardly wait.

Tags: Our own countdown
ADVERTISEMENT

Related Posts

Book burning is what it is

byManila Standard
August 18, 2022, 12:15 am
0
175
Book burning is what it is

You would think that book burning is something that’s already part of history, as it conjures images of crowds gathered...

Read more

Dreams beside nightmares

byManila Standard
August 17, 2022, 12:15 am
0
284
Dreams beside nightmares

Pathetically disquieting that, while we have a chief magistrate charmed by three “dreams” for the agriculture sector of this country...

Read more

Confusion over the NCAP memo

byManila Standard
August 16, 2022, 12:15 am
0
324
Confusion over the NCAP memo

Only five days back, Land Transportation chief Teofilo Guadiz issued a memorandum directing the head of the LTO Management Information...

Read more

Anti-poor legislation

byManila Standard
August 15, 2022, 12:15 am
0
289
Anti-poor legislation

“These decrees of yours are no different from spiders’ webs. They’ll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in...

Read more

Implementing laws fairly

byManila Standard
August 13, 2022, 12:15 am
0
294
Implementing laws fairly

Rider-turned-congressman retired Col. Bonifacio Bosita is proving to be a real ally of hundreds of thousands of motorcycle riders when...

Read more

Buoyant economy

byManila Standard
August 12, 2022, 12:30 am
0
303
Buoyant economy

The 7.4-percent economic growth registered by the Philippines in the second quarter of 2022 is no mean feat. The economy...

Read more

Stories you may like

  • People …are talking about Liza Soberano

    Supermodel son is Philippine bet in Manhunt International

    12328 shares
    Share 4931 Tweet 3082
  • How love kept Zoey Taberna alive

    10106 shares
    Share 4042 Tweet 2527
  • Another oil price rollback likely as world economy further stalls

    1465 shares
    Share 586 Tweet 366
  • Judgments and their execution

    1298 shares
    Share 519 Tweet 325
  • SMART/MVP-PH Team joins ‘22 Asian Taekwondo Championship

    1109 shares
    Share 444 Tweet 277

Print Edition

View More

Recent Posts

  • Asian markets drop as Fed minutes cause fresh rate hike woe
  • Tokyo Olympics exec arrested over bribery allegations
  • Hundreds evacuated as ‘frightening’ floods hit N.Zealand
  • Cheney defeat marks Trump’s win over traditional conservatism
  • Anger as US court says teen not ‘mature’ enough for abortion
  • ‘Captain America’ Reed files $750m law suit over ‘malicious attacks’
  • TikTok girds for US election misinformation threat
  • Sneakers for Makati : AB4.0

Advertisement

Latest News

‘Captain America’ Reed files $750m law suit over ‘malicious attacks’

byAFP
August 18, 2022, 7:00 am
0
145
‘Captain America’ Reed files $750m law suit over ‘malicious attacks’

US golfer Patrick Reed, who departed the US PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series, has filed a $750...

Read more

TikTok girds for US election misinformation threat

byAFP
August 18, 2022, 6:00 am
0
135
TikTok girds for US election misinformation threat

TikTok on Wednesday rolled out its battle plan against the deluge of misinformation expected to accompany the upcoming US midterm...

Read more

Sneakers for Makati : AB4.0

byManila Standard
August 18, 2022, 1:40 am
0
1.1k
Sneakers for Makati : AB4.0

Read more

SRA revamp up, probe on

byVince Lopezand3 others
August 18, 2022, 1:30 am
0
186
Sy siblings, Villar, Razon top 2022 Forbes rich list

BBM sets move this weekend, Congress tables import mess inquiry A shakeup at the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is imminent,...

Read more

Government to lose billions in tax income from softdrinks

byJulito G. Rada
August 18, 2022, 1:20 am
0
280
Coca-Cola on track with energy efficiency goal in PH

Economic managers said Wednesday that the sugar supply shortage in the country could affect the economy’s recovery from the pandemic....

Read more

Advertisement

ADVERTISEMENT
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube

ABOUT US

Manila Standard

Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.

Digital Edition

In tone and content, the online edition mirrors the editorial thrust of the newspaper. While hewing to the traditional precepts of fairness and objectivity, MS believes the news of the day need not be staid, overly long or dry. Stories are succinct, readable and written in a lively style that has become a hallmark of the newspaper.

Download – Today’s Paper

Search

No Result
View All Result

6th Floor Universal Re Bldg., 106 Paseo De Roxas cor. Perea Street, Legaspi Village, 1226 Makati City Philippines

Trunklines: 832-5554, 832-5556, 832-5558

© 2021 Manila Standard - Designed and Developed by Neitiviti Studios.

No Result
View All Result
  • About
  • News
    • Top Stories
    • National
    • World News
    • Pinoy Abroad
    • Features
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
    • Soundbytes
  • LGUs
    • NCR
    • Luzon
    • Visayas
    • Mindanao
  • Business
    • Corporate
    • Economy & Trade
    • Stocks
    • Money
    • Agri & Mining
    • Power & Tech
    • IT & Telecom
  • Sports
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • Fightsports
    • Active
    • Sports Plus
    • One Championship
    • Columns
  • Entertainment
    • TV & Movies
    • Celebrity Profiles
    • Music & Concerts
    • Digital Media
    • Columns
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Culture & Media
    • Fashion
    • Health and Home
    • Leisure
    • Shopping
    • Columns
  • Pop.Life
    • Newsmakers
    • Hangouts
    • A-Pop
    • Post Its
    • Performances
    • Malls & Bazaars
    • Hobbies & Collections
  • Technology
    • Gadgets
    • Computers
    • Business
    • Tech Plus
  • MS ON THE ROAD
    • Sedan
    • SUV
    • Truck
    • Bike
    • Accessories
    • Motoring Plus
    • Commuter’s Corner
  • Home & Design
    • Residential
    • Commercial
    • Construction
    • Interior
  • Spotlight
  • Gallery
    • Photos
    • Videos
  • Events
    • Seminars
    • Exhibits
    • Community
  • Biyahero
    • Travel Features
    • Travel Reels
    • Travel Logs
  • Pets
  • Advertise with Us

© 2021 Manila Standard - Designed and Developed by Neitiviti Studios.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Install Manila Standard Web App

Install App