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Article: Giant rehab job ahead.(Opinion)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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“The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and avoids the sight of distress.” — W. Somerset MaughamWith the end of her constitutional term just around the corner, the task of rehabilitating the economy and the lives of people is daunting, and cannot be immediate. The burden falls on her successor.Picking up the debris brought about by successive typhoons and rebuilding cities and towns, farms and public works, and distracted by the forthcoming Presidential elections, the onus of picking up the pieces will fall on the lap of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s successor as he grapples with the double whammy of an economy down on its ...