Well of empty spring in Spring

Spring is that time of the year when students across campuses in the US mainland head out to participate in some cause regardless of whether or not there’s a commitment or an understanding of the issue at hand.

To illustrate a point, students in San Francisco have demonstrated in front of GAP Stores without an inkling of the cause they’ve co-opted. Most see the NMI as some foreign country overseas obviously ignorant that we belong to the US of A.

The irony in their heedless demonstration against GAP is that while they hoist placards wailing disconnected messages, Levi Strauss was simultaneously closing down its clothing manufacturing plants in San Francisco, shutting down more than 21,000 jobs for North American employees.

Therefore, the demonstration goes to illustrate its irrelevance that has much enthusiasm at the outset that gradually fizzles out after the first or second march of clueless cause. But it is in Spring that student demonstrations pop-up across campuses if for no other reason than to stay politically correct though not politically right.

A professor of law and columnist advised that students carefully pick a cause to ensure that they understand what the issue is all about. If the undertaking is to distort non-student issues, they are better off at the beach wind surfing that putting on a show of grand cluelessness. I suppose student demonstrators aren’t immune to the effects of El Ñiño?

Voters are equally responsible

The deepening crisis must not be blamed on politicians now at the helm. The greater blame should be pointed at voters who elected the “Protectionist Squad” because “He’s family `nai”. We elect and blame them for failing their fiduciary duties. How about blaming yourself for getting the suckers into office in the first place?

Sad as it may seem, this ill-informed method of voting often pacified by “He’s family `nai” may soothe your ego but with a troubled conscience in the process. But in no way have you done yourself and your children the justice of providing a set of real leadership capable of charting the future of these isles. And, again, when nothing works right, we conveniently blame legislators for their failure which failure started with you when you showered your ego with “He’s family `nai”.

Now, in order to exercise an informed decision on who should you vote for public office, you must be able to separate people (personalities) from issues. It’s a difficult feat in an island founded on communal culture. Perhaps, we shouldn’t blame ourselves on an issue that is the very fallacy of American Democracy. I’m optimistic however that we will overcome this immaturity.

On the much touted Free Trade Zone

This is a measure that requires in-depth research and reasoned analysis by Think Tanks poised to study its merit and whether it would work in luring lasting investments into the NMI. I give credit to sponsors of the measure for shaking their legs to doing the current crisis one better at least in their imagination.

But in heading into some strange territory, lawmakers and bureaucrats ought to engage in reality check, specifically, your performance to listening to the problems and concerns of current investors on island. Gentlemen, if you can’t listen to on-island investors who now feed the local treasury, common sense dictates that your ill-prepared economic measure rightfully belongs in Cinderella and the Seven Dwarfs’ dreamland of wishful thinking.

In the process, you’ve neglected your fiduciary responsibility royally and went out of focus of what works right here before your nose. It must part of the local culture in our world of chancy Casanovas to love the one without rather than the one within. Did I say that or miss something here?