Need for united front

The issue before the collective leadership of the NMI is: Can you muster a proactive approach to salvaging the balance of a crumbling local economy given the obvious need to protect the rights of the NMI “attain a progressively higher standard of living” like any other community throughout the country?

The reason we bring this query to your collective attention is obvious: Our other partner has gone the other direction to ruin any future economic opportunities against the NMI. Thus, the dire need to regroup immediately to handle the beast coming down to these isles in the next several months.

The NMI must portray itself as capable of establishing conducive and stable investment policies to the keep current investors while luring other prospective investors. The private sector must consistently and persistently advice the public sector that this is the only way to provide windows of opportunities at wealth creation which subsequently translates to jobs creation.

The public sector must learn to listen to its counterpart in the private sector given that the former is better poised at running businesses that cough-up quarterly taxes that feeds the local coffers. As such, both sectors must immediately converge to set down proactive and stable policies on investments in order to guard the fragile island economy that is headed to a total meltdown.

Each sector must get its act together today, not next week. In the end, all sectors, including the public sector, need to meet to forge a united front on exactly what needs to be done today to stave off any further assaults against what’s left in the local economy. Friends, only those who work 48 hours a day to strengthen their economic lot would survive when the chips are down. There’s no more room for posturing and grandstanding, but there’s a lot of room to join hands now to save the livelihood or quality of life for the people of these isles.

How the collective leadership handles this issue today will definitely determine whether we make it or break it. We hope that by staying focus on issues we need to undertake today would allow the NMI to “make it”. Either we get down to basics to help our beloved Northern Marianas Community or someone else would intervene to do it for us. It’s our livelihood and it’s worth the price fighting our detractors every inch of the way even if it means hard sacrifices. Let’s join hands on every corner and do it right. It’s our last chance to defend our rights as a member of the greater American Economic Community to “attain a progressively higher standard of living” like any other community across the country. Si Yuus Maase`!