Pres. PNOY Aquino Darling of the PRESS and MAGNET of Investors SEE his BRILLIANCE
00:48.6
I understand that the President is authorized to suspend the imposition of certain taxes.
00:56.4
There is a study ongoing rin, yung implications.
00:59.6
As far as S-TEX is concerned, you increase the toll rates, you increase in transportation,
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tapos syempre yung BAT is another cost that might deter economic activity.
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So this all will be discussed.
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So yun yung plan B. I'm hoping to finish it with Secretary Purisima today or tomorrow.
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As you know, meron na yung millennium challenge corporation yung signing.
01:19.7
It's over $400 million that we really need.
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The other aspect is we were informed by the ambassador the first time,
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when I met him, that there is a serious interest on the part of investors
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who want to know what's in store for them if they invest in the Philippines.
01:33.5
So you know that job generation is the first priority.
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And America still is, if not the biggest, one of our biggest trading partners.
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Therefore, we're called upon really to go there and try to make the country even more attractive
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to all of these investors in the hopes of generating all of those jobs.
01:49.6
Sir, hanggang ka lang yung hindi na defer yung implementation ng BAT?
01:54.8
Ang sakin, nalito ko na.
01:56.2
Priority ko dito ay 250% increase sa PISA, SLEX, na minano na nalano.
02:01.7
Yung franchise, for instance, ng PLCC, I have been advised that it has lapsed since 2007.
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Medyo tatlong taon na hindi yung asikaso dito.
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Yung authority to collect that arises from that franchise seems to be in question.
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All of these matters are being studied by both the legal teams and the finance teams.
02:21.0
And they will be giving me certain recommendations.
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Hopefully, at the very latest by tomorrow.
02:26.2
Sir, ano mo ang posisyon niyo doon sa imposition ng higher cigarette tax?
02:30.9
Kasi ano po sa gawin ni Health Secretary Ono?
02:34.1
Well, I understand Secretary Ono was asked, do you favor an increase in taxes?
02:38.8
Especially ng SYN products.
02:41.5
Tapos yung 90 pesos siya atang proposal, Secretary Ono's competition is in health, not in the finance sector.
02:49.5
So, that I think was added on to his comments.
02:53.3
That was not his comment.
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Yung idea na, increase in SYN taxes.
02:56.2
Yes, from a societal concern.
03:00.7
And also, may trade-offs kasi.
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Yung SYN products have a health burden on the people.
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May peso body yung health burden na yan.
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Tapos yung taxes versus the health burden are not equal.
03:15.3
So, that really has to be studied very, very well.
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Exactly how much.
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It will have to come from Congress.
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All measures of taxation and appropriation.
03:24.1
Sir, but if there will be tax measures?
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The measure that you would pass, would you prioritize this since this involves public health?
03:31.1
Most probably, the SYN taxes.
03:33.1
Sir, may we get your thoughts because 3 out of the 4 EOs issued by the Malacanang Ministry in question, they want to support you.
03:40.3
Well, yung, not to make light of it, pero one of the briefers that came before me questioned the grounds for the EO.
03:51.6
Di ba, the Constitutional Provision or Not Deprivation of Life Liberality.
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Life Liberty and Property.
03:57.0
And we're talking of a position.
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Medyo nahirapan ako makaintingin paano naging Life Liberty at Property yung position na pinag-uusapan.
04:03.5
Medyo ang babaw yata ng one of the arguments.
04:06.2
My legal team tells me that a lot of the petitions are more of the rabble-rousing nature rather than unknown.
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Pero siguro, the fundamental principle is this.
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We are trying to reform our society.
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We are trying to correct errors, mistakes, and deliberate actions that injure the public good.
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Undoubtedly, there will be people who benefited from that status quo to try and preserve the status quo.
04:31.6
So, the challenges are expected.
04:33.9
And, at, may rap-rap.
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So, yung, that, okay na na yun.
04:41.4
But we are expecting those challenges.
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And, hopefully, dito yung medyo di na muna ako magkocomment at subjudice na yan.
04:48.0
Baka naman tayo ma-issue para nakikialam na naman sa co-equal branch of government.
04:52.0
Sir, mayroon mo kong pwede na yun.
04:55.8
Yung pagpunta nyo po sa U.S., anong industries yung isasama natin sa roadshow?
05:00.2
And, are you intending to include discussions on the visiting forces again since Congress is a move?
05:06.0
I think the trip will be something like four days or so.
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So, at pera ng mga na-schedule.
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Yung U.N. I think will be the primary thing.
05:14.0
But then, yung Millennium Challenge also, the signing of the compact.
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And then, yung roadshow, portion of it will be IT.
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Yung, there is a group.
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It's called the Philippine Development Foundation, which aims to help us grow our IT base.
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I mean, the people, the engineers, the scientists.
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Kasi, it's a, there are Filipinos or there are Americans of Filipino descent who are into venture capital industries.
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And, they are already, they are movers and shakers of that industry.
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They find it difficult to invest in the Philippines primarily because kulang yung ating human resources.
05:54.4
To meet the needs of industries in that category.
05:57.5
So, I'm sure I will be meeting them also.
06:00.2
So, it's yung, I'm hoping na hindi tayo ma-jet lang na-hosta para maka-ausap as many as possible.
06:05.6
Pero, we don't think we'll be able to accomplish everything that has to be done on that one trip.
06:09.3
Then, of course, as you know, yung the other priorities, yung EU ASEAN Summit, no?
06:14.6
Where we have all the heads of state of the EU members present.
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So, we will also have that as a priority.
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China and Japan being very large trading partners also.
06:24.4
And, requesting for trips to their respective countries.
06:28.1
Sir, do you have plans to have a financial meeting with President Obama?
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Or, ano yung there is to be done?
06:35.4
That has yet to be finalized.
06:37.8
Sir, kinausap nyo po ba yung mga kamag-anak nyo sa Luisita?
06:41.0
Yung, as you know, I adopted the hands-off policy.
06:45.8
So, I think for me to act properly here, if my constituents in Luisita had asked me,
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to meet with them, I would have.
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If the religious sector, the other chambers of commerce na amin doon,
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or my relatives wanted to discuss it, then I would have discussed.
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But, I'm not demotraged.
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So, I handled other matters.
07:07.6
Sir, going back to the EOP, do you think it's unfair to accuse your legal advisors as being amateurists?
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Siguro, iniintindi ko lang sa nagmumula yung kritisismo.
07:20.2
Yung kritisismo, yung mga gustong patuloy ang pakinabang na sa maling paraan.
07:24.4
So, ano ba, kung sila po pumuri sa atin, kailangan tayo kakabahan.
07:29.7
Bakit tayo pinupuri bigla nito mga ito?
07:31.6
So, yung normal and par for the course.
07:34.2
But, definitely, sir, you don't see any lack of legal opinion?
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Yung, nobody's perfect.
07:40.0
And, this is, in a sense, we're confronted with a problem.
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How do you govern with people who do not follow the agenda?
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Who will try to stop you each and every step of the way?
07:51.1
So, we were confronted with a problem.
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Talaga namang pinuno nang pinuno doon sa mid-light appointments.
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At, magkakaroon talaga ng challenge.
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We are trying to do, and we believe, we are trying to further the common good
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by effecting changes in governance that will lead to the advancement of the agenda
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at the earliest time possible.
08:10.2
Sir, sir, you said...
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Si Justice Oreno nandito, nakakalimutan nyo.
08:14.0
Sir, you said you're connected to other matters in Luisita.
08:17.1
Where were those at the beginning?
08:17.9
No, not in Luisita.
08:18.8
There were other issues in Tarlac, for instance.
08:20.9
May nag-collapse the bridge about the...
08:23.2
And I wanted to ask, paano umabot na nag-collapse?
08:28.6
Parang dumadaloy pa yung traffic.
08:31.0
May danger na pala.
08:32.1
So, I want to check here.
08:33.0
Is that supposed to be a national bridge?
08:36.1
Tapos, I had an opportunity to talk to regional directors.
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A couple of regional directors of the PNP.
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I gave them my emphasis on my perceived problems in the respective areas.
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So, nagkaroon ng exchange of information.
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Nagkaroon ng mga...
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Parang binigay sa atin yung kanilang mga courses of action that they may be undertaking.
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And they have undertaken.
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Sir, I'm grateful.
08:59.8
Ito na ba yung kapalit ng Wednesday?
09:02.5
I'm being criticized kasi kamag-anak mo naman doon yung may-arig na news.
09:07.6
I am having these hands-on talks.
09:12.4
Yung paniniwala ko, kamag-anak ko yung nandun.
09:15.1
Okay, trabayo, no?
09:16.0
But I have divested myself of all my interests there.
09:19.1
Ngayon, sino may interest doon?
09:20.3
It's the former beneficiaries.
09:21.8
And members of...
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My family and other stockholders.
09:25.5
So, ang tanong dito, sino ba pinakamagaling makalaman kung anong dapat mangyari sa kanila?
09:31.2
Paniniwala ko, yung mga taong directly involved at hindi yung mga nasa labas ng dokumentaryo.
09:35.8
Ang mas may kakayahan, maalaman ko, unang dapat puntahan ng kanilang corporation doon.
09:41.7
So, kung ako papasunod, parang nakikialam ako, nag-iimpose ako sa mga taong napinsala for the past six years.
09:49.3
So, ako po, sinabi ko naman, boss ko ang taong bayan.
09:52.4
Kasama na sila sa tao.
09:53.2
Ang bayan, sila may interest doon, diretsoan.
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Sila magsabi sa akin kung saan dapat ang direksyon.
09:57.6
So, sir, kahit may mga panawakan, may nasasabi-sasabi lang, kasi alam na kayo pa rin siya?
10:02.4
Mahirap naman yata sabihin sa CBCP.
10:04.3
May isa akong bisap na alam na nakikiksalita.
10:07.3
Mayroon namang bisap na nagsabing pabayaan yung mga nandong.
10:09.9
Sino sa dalawang bisap ang pakigawin?
10:11.9
Sir, Admiral Anguil is expressing his dismay over his demotion daw po.
10:16.4
This might trigger daw po ng demoralization sa ranks.
10:21.3
I think I will leave that, Chief of Staff.
10:23.2
But, sir, do we expect na magkakaroon ng revamp sa military following yung pag-change of position ni Admiral Anguil?
10:32.1
I think we have effected most of the changes starting from July 1.
10:36.7
This is just para nadadalilag yung implementation.
10:39.7
Sir, will you be open to new tax measures this year kung kailangan-kailangan?
10:45.0
Even the budget has been attuned to managing the deficit.
10:49.0
Yung going to bakit-conflicting needs of Comprime,
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managing the inflation level, and also managing the deficit.
11:00.2
At this point in time, we are not, we have not been advised that there is a necessity to do so.
11:05.2
Sir, and if advised?
11:07.2
Then we will review it.
11:09.2
Part of it kasi is we are also reviewing the entire debt structure.
11:13.2
Merong tayong opportunities to change our debt from foreign currency base.
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At pwede rin yung pagbababa ng sourcing.
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May lilipat natin.
11:24.1
Mas macha-charge tayo na mas mababang interest.
11:26.1
Yan ang isa sa mga pinagpapabreefocus ng Dalit Polisiba.
11:31.1
Ano ba yung buong loan portfolio natin?
11:34.1
Kanina ba tayo may utang?
11:36.1
Kailan ba maturation?
11:37.1
Ano ba ang interest rates?
11:38.1
Ano ba ang strategies to bring down the negative effects of such a large debt?
11:45.1
Sir, statement bang po regarding sa appointment mo kay Justice Serena?
11:49.1
Well, na-review natin yung mga CB.
11:52.1
Talagang napaka, how should I put it, awe-inspiring siguro yung resume ni Justice.
11:59.1
For instance, naipanalo yung dalawang kaso sa FIATCO tsaka sa Fraport.
12:05.1
Nandun rin siya sa MOA-AD.
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Sa parehong pananaw natin sa dismemberment of the Republic.
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At marami pang iba.
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Pati na yung centerpiece ng ating gustong gawing reform sa ating judiciary,
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eh siya rin ang namuno nung 2000.
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Kung hindi ako nagkakamali.
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Nung study na nag-identify ng mga problema ng ating judicial system.
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Ngayon na nandyan na siya.
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May implement ng mas mabilis palagay ko.
12:29.1
Yung mga kailangan na pagbabago sa ating dilatuna.
12:32.1
Sir, ano ba kung bang you don't personally know?
12:35.1
Ano mo, Ateneo at that time was 2000 students strong.
12:41.1
Siguro iisa naman ang kantin namin doon.
12:43.1
Nagkasalubong kami siguro at some point in time.
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We're both economics majors.
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Pero to be honest, I don't really recall ever having that.
12:50.1
I don't recall ever having met her or debated with her or being in the same class with her.
12:57.1
May one batch na difference.
12:59.1
Sir, how would you differentiate yung appointment ni Justice Salinas
13:04.1
sa pagkakain ko ni dating Pangulong Arroyo sa mga naunang Supreme Court President?
13:10.1
Well, palagay ko number one, wala tayong question kung nasa timely manner ba.
13:14.1
Na talagang sinunod dati lahat ng proseso dito.
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At palagay ko naman,
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mas ang daming puro yung inabot natin sa pagkakirang kay Justice Moreno.
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Kaya doon siguro, doon ko na iiwan.
13:27.1
Maraming nakaka-recognize na talagang ating talino, galing at nagawa na.
13:30.1
Hindi po promised pero yung actuality na nagawa na.
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Na talagang makakadagdag sa ating Cortez Moreno.
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Magkita-kita tayo.
