Saturday, 26 July 2008

A "stolen" republic

A group of former Cabinet members and other past ranking officials Friday “indicted” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her failed promises, and said that for seven years she had wrought “seven curses” on the nation that left it “enfeebled” and impoverished.

The FSGO said Ms Arroyo “at the head of our government is the worst threat to the state of our nation.”

“The person pretending to tell us about the dire state of our nation is the very same person who has done the most to destroy the very foundations of our nation, sell its future to its exploiters and abusers, and consign the poor and middle class to deeper poverty and worse despair,” it said.

The FSGO listed “seven curses”: a country unable to feed its people because of mismanagement of the agricultural sector; worsening poverty and increasing inequality; deteriorating basic social services; cancer of corruption; wanton abuse of presidential power; illegitimate presidency; and a nation robbed of dignity, unity, hope and future.

History is judge.

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