Narito ang privilege speech ni Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello nitong Marso 16, 2011 sa Mababang Kapulungan. Tinalakay ni Walden kung bakit mahalagang tutukan ng pamahalaan ni PNoy ang ekonomiya. Nagbigay muli si Walden ng ilang "unsolicited advice" sa pamahalaan kung paano maisasaayos ang ekonomiya.
Setting Fair Oil Prices for the Filipino People
A year after its election, the administration can point to the high economic growth rate, particularly in agriculture, as one of its achievements.
However, perhaps more than economic growth, people prize economic stability, and the way things are going right now, there is a sense of things slipping out of control. The main challenge citizens want the administration to meet is, far and away, the economy. And among the economic issues, inflation receives the highest priority as a problem that must be addressed by the government in a recent Pulse Asia survey, with some 53 per cent of respondents citing it.