Arroyo promises poverty relief

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REUTERS , MANILA
Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004,Page 5

Demonstrators burn an effigy of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo during a rally near the Congress building in the Manila suburb of Quezon City yesterday, as she prepared to deliver her state-of-the-nation address.
PHOTO: AFP
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo yesterday pledged to cut the country's unwieldy bureaucracy and devote her new term to raising millions out of poverty, but gave few policy details.

In her first state of the nation speech since winning elections in May, Arroyo linked her anti-poverty fight with her decision to pull Manila's troops out of Iraq last week to save the life of a Filipino hostage at the cost of strained ties with Washington.

"I have shown that government does care even for a single Filipino life," Arroyo told a joint session of Congress. "Now we must show that we care for the rest of the Filipino people, even the weakest among us."

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I have one question for you. Have you ever been to the PI? Nothing has changed in 50 years excpet the Bush/GOP type Filipino elite have gotten richer.