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STATEMENT BY THE HONORABLE
BERNADETTE “BH” HERRERA-DY
Bagong Henerasyon Party-list
Chair, Committee on Public Information

START SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, HOUSE PUBLIC INFO CHAIR URGES PIOs

As Chairman of the House Committee on Public Information, I call upon all the public information officers throughout government to make sure Filipinos everywhere will know how the P3.7 trillion 2018 national budget and the TRAIN Tax reforms will make their lives more directional and predictable into the future and enable them to reach for their aspirations.

Critics  will continue to be  critics of President Duterte and of the 17th Congress  and will keep bashing , but it will be extremely difficult for them to dispute the fact that Filipinos will immediately feel the predictable direction of having more revenues for government  because of tax reforms, a better future because of free college education, and more food on the table because of more jobs from the higher spending on infrastructure, education, health, and massive improvements on  basic services.

With the 2018 budget and TRAIN, President Duterte will not just be a rock star in Asia and at the same time elevate the status of our country further amongst the area with high economic and financial growth, simultaneous with being an investment haven for Investors.

The critics will be working overtime to try to pull down the President and the 17th Congress. Some of them will even time their attacks when the approval and popularity surveys are done. The public information machinery of Congress must be ready for the haters and bashers.

The PIOs must translate all the positive economic news into layman language and into the many different languages Filipinos speak all over the country. PIOs must communicate in ways more Filipinos can appreciate and understand.

The economic offensive against poverty and hardships must also come with a communication campaign spreading the good news of economic progress.

We are sure that there will be NO price shocks in the future as a result of the TRAIN. There might just be affordable uptick in basic prices for the short term but for the long term can be equated by higher inclusive growth for the Filipinos. A middle uptick for prices of non-essential goods but this may lead to correction of inflation, a higher price uptick for luxury goods but the people affected are projected to be well enough to afford them. (END)

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