Truth 70: Same-o same-o and our future and greatness!
The truth of the matter is we are continuing to experience the same-old-you know what which amounts to nothing going forward with taxes being the talk of the town. More than anything I hoped and wanted to see Arnold become a great governor but when he was afraid to even try reading from a teleprompter for his inauguration was my first signs of doubt. Now we are two years in and still taya new on the horizon for the people. I knew the 902 talks would be just that “talks” and now it seems they were completely worthless with a different administration taking over America. It is also obvious to me that our governor was putting a lot of his stock in the military to come and save our economy, which ain’t going to happen anytime soon, thus we are right back where we started two years ago and even worse off for those who had to suffer under austerity. It’s very apparent now that our governor is just going through the motions of governing while we experience the same-old dysfunctional government when it comes to rebuilding our economy and the Legislature is following the governor’s lead with only a little bit here and a little bit there when we need to be taking some giant leaps for real!
While I understand the genuine need to give MACS a tax break, it should not be for 25 years, as five years is more than enough time for a business to establish itself because if it isn’t successful after five years then MACS and governor we have a problem. It is totally unreasonable to give them a 25-year tax break and for CEDA to be the so-called experts who refused to even give me a grace period with my trike business forcing me to make payments with the money they loaned me before the trikes even arrived on island—pathetic and favoritism for MACS. I have to laugh to keep from crying especially when CEDA does not have a real economist on staff unless they were just hire and if so we the people want to know who to hold accountable! CEDA hasn’t done anything to lead in our economic infrastructure and reforms, just made loans and not offering any professional assistance to loanees. The governor is aware of my appeals for him to identify who our economist is, and I guess this is his effort to shift the blame, as I’m sure it has been him and his Lt. making the poor and even nonexistent economic decisions that have gotten us the same-old you know what. Maybe next election the majority will finally had enough of Republicans, especially if Democrats can get their act together with a full slate of candidates!
Ambrose M. Bennett is an economist who minored in sociology, political scientist, a retired teacher, and former CNMI Board of Education member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. constitutional scholar), a Fulbright-Hays and lifetime humanities scholar who resides in Kagman III in the CNMI.
