Marcos links the government's right to demand continued "confidence, harder work, and possibly more sacrifice" to its past performance. From the perspective of the citizenry, what tangible evidence or criteria would be necessary to validate the government's claims of "dedication" and "genuine achievement"?

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of the nation. Two days from today, we enter the fourth year of the New Society, our program of national transformation. This is bound to be a decisive phase of that program, one that will require the utmost resiliency and fortitude of both our government and our people. But before we can even begin to think of leading our people into a new period of that struggle, we must answer some questions. 1. Have we, in government, kept our covenant by serving faithfully the genuine hopes of our people? 2. Have we matched their sacrifices with dedication, their expectations with competence and virtue,…

an na pagsubok, at kakailanganin nating lahat ang sukdulang tibay at tatag ng loob, alang-alang sa ating Bagong Lipunan. Ngunit bago tayo magtangka na akaying muli ang ating sambayanan sa mga susunod na yugto sa ating pakikihamok sa kapalaran, kailangang sagutin ang ilang katanungan. 1. Natupad ba nating mga nasa pamahalaan ang ating panata, sa pamamagitan ng matapat na pagtataguyod sa mga tunay na adhikain ng aling mga mamamayan? 2. Natumbasan ba ng ating pagpupunyagi ang kanilang pagpapakasakit, ng ating marubdob na pagtangkilik sa mga dakilang mithiin, ng walang puknat na paggawa, at…

wth is rendered in statistics and changes in the landscape, changes in the cities, in the roads, in the infrastructures. But more than this, we need a new vigorous climate of confidence and hope, a passionate renewal of faith and devotion, which sustains armies and populations even in the midst of siege. And, while our policies decree sweeping changes in our institutions and programs, we have lagged behind in the fundamental change on which the New Society is truly to be forged. This is the change within us, in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls—the internal revolution, which our nation…

d, or are too complacent, or that they can lake any liberties they please with our people, our Republic and our reforms. Clearly, we face here the danger that our New Society is giving birth to a new government elite, who resurrect in our midst the privileges we fought in the past, who employ the powers of high office for their personal enrichment, as well as of their business colleagues, relatives and friends. I have, as you all know, ordered a performance audit of all local officials, as away of compelling the accountability of many insensitive officials in the local level. This audit is…

is the subtler assaults on public order and national discipline that must bear the greater weight of our concerns today. For these connote erosion in the program of reform, a softening of the will to change; and where these are seen conspicuously by the public, they contribute to the deterioration of morale and faith in social change. With equal severity, people in private life must accept the burdens of the national transformation to which we have pledged ourselves. All must share with those in government and the masses the austerity demanded by the times. Sadly, we note, the dramatic gains…