New federal takeover bid

The new federal takeover proposal is nothing more than a rearrangement of the original plan, a scheme for which the Clinton administration is known for in its masterful ability to rearrange the truth, however the truth we all know by heart.

It is an agenda of liberals who believe that piling another more insensitive layer of government on top of what we have today would eventually pull the islands out of its developmental problems. At best, it is shortsighted, a perfectly misdiagnosed prescription against a dying patient suffering from an Asian virulent economic disease.

Nowhere in the “new” plan is there mention of the impact of such liberal grand plan on the livelihood of the indigenous people or how would such plan help the local people attain a “higher standard of living”.

It is seemingly oblivious to the unique conditions of an island economy now the victim of the Asian Contagion, not to mention a ruined economic future as a direct result of the shift in federal policy that trumpets instability all the way around.

It’s obvious too that proponents of more government for the NMI have a particular difficulty dealing with a learning curve that hails from this side of the Pacific Ocean–that the current arrangement works–and that the republican form of government granted, built and constantly refined by the governance is all part and whole of the actual exercise of self-government.

The so-called “new” proposal is riddled with inadequacies, a forte` of the lead federal agency for nearly 40 years now and is still at it, ready to revive a failed legacy that more government is the ultimate solution to all our inadequacies and miseries. Fortunately, we’ve learned over the years that Interior’s legacy of discriminatory pay-scales, more government and more government has worked against our interest when the local economy took a huge plunge in revenue generation since two years ago. It seems Interior has yet to learn the basics that government isn’t in the business of making a profit to support itself. It comes from the hard work of the private sector.

Perhaps the more appropriate proposal that we’ve yet to see from Interior is a reasoned economic plan on how to weather the Asian Contagion. Such a plan should be tailored to empower the local government on wealth and jobs creation, specifically geared toward an accelerated assimilation into the greater American Economic Community.

But Interior has decided to be our permanent adversary taking the lead in economic sanctions and hoping too that economic annihilation would descend upon this group of US Citizens in a blind effort to revive helplessness among the indigenous people of these isles. All these as we hear and salivate over the good and joyful tidings of a robust American economy hardly affected by Asia’s economic slump.

If anything, the so-called “new” proposal is a misguided scheme that we must reject outright for it means the economic annihilation of our livelihood. In short, it’s all the work product of mediocrity that trumpets severe hardship ahead for the NMI. The plan must be rejected outright for it has no place as we prepare for new challenges in the new millennium. Si Yuus Maase`!