P-NOY and FVR

I can say that Fidel V. Ramos, our 12th President, is one of the great Presidents that our country had. That is why I chose his State of the Nation Address to compare and contrast with the SONA of our 15th President, Benigno Aquino, Jr.

In FVR's first SONA, he presented us some of the problems our country facing like in the SONA of P-NOY. Both of them did not focus much in our foreign policies though in the latter part of FVR's speech he addressed to some issues in the international arena like the end of Cold War. They mentioned about ensuring higher quality of education, privatizing public corporate sector that are better managed by the private enterprise, and fight against corruption.

There are differences in the way both presidents delivered their speech and the content of it. First is that P-NOY's SONA was more understandable than FVR's since it is in Filipino and I believe that a lot of Filipinos appreciated that especially those who are not proficient in English. Another is FVR addressed his intention of continuing and enhancing the works of the Cory Administration while P-NOY pointed out a lot of anomalies in the Arroyo Administration. FVR gave us more concrete solutions than P-NOY.

In the last State of the Nation Address of Fidel V. Ramos, he showed us his accomplishments and made to life what he said in his first SONA. We still do not know what will be the achievements of our current president but we are hoping that all the problems that he mentioned in his SONA will be abolished through his proposed solutions like what FVR did.

Former President Fidel V. Ramos had proved us his prowess, now it's time for our President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino to show the people of the Philippines what he has got and to lead us to progress that he is pertaining to as "tuwid na daan".