Cielito Habito was my economics teacher in ADMU One thing I remember him saying was that the good thing about having a bad president referring to Erap is that it makes is so much clearer to recognize a good president referring to Gloria Then again perhaps you have a point aside from the growing GDP shrinking inflation well performing stock market shrinking unemployment lowering poverty rate record high per capita income improving manufacturing performance rising tourism rates strengthening peso shrinking budget deficit rising investments rising government revenues improving fiscal discipline and macroeconomic fundamentals and overall economic outlook if you can look past all these statistics and facts about the economy perhaps you could say it s all talk sarcasm detector explodes