Miller's blind agenda vs. the NMI
California Congressman George Miller comes from a state that is the capital of garment manufacturing in the US mainland. It is no secret that the apparel industry in California has violated federal minimum wage laws by paying wages way below the statutory requirement. Perhaps, this is the reason the fallen star of human rights has seen fit to take his bid a step further from a “Dear Colleague” letter to ignorant students to hide California apparel industry’s blatant violations of federal laws.
As a US Citizen who isn’t even represented in the most powerful legislative chambers the world over, it boggles the mind how can one advocate for the destruction of a livelihood of a super minority group of US Citizens situated outside the fringe of mainstream America. If defies all reasoning when we mirror equality and justice against Miller’s whose forte is allegedly on human rights values. Is the destruction of the NMI’s opportunity for wealth and jobs creation a new reinvention of the American Dream? Is it now an integral part (full blown discrimination) of the principles of equality and justice being leveled against super minorities like US
Citizens in the NMI because it is your view and other detractors that we don’t fit under the greater umbrella of the American Economic Community?
We feel wounded by the punitive attitude you’ve taken against this group of US Citizens who live some 10,000 from Washington, D.C. And if human rights is your forte which should include a dedicated agenda to grant the NMI “equal representation” in the US Congress and justice as trumpeted under the US Constitution, I’m sure you’d realize by now how conveniently you’ve used this issue to advance your underlying motive to protect the apparel industry in California. The truth would have put the issue to rest if from the outset you’ve come out in forthright fashion to declare that Little David of the Pacific has outgunned the capital of apparel manufacturing in every aspect of its operations. Must the local garment industry here be penalized for keeping abreast with global competition while California’s rested royally on its laurels?
If human rights is in fact your forte, then perhaps you have a better alternative to wealth and jobs creation for the NMI that we haven’t heard of since you took the advocacy role of fronting this issue (human rights) to ruin the NMI’s garment industry. Obviously, you haven’t learned why the relocation of US manufacturing industries from North America to Mexico, Latin and South America. Now, Levi Strauss wants out of North America too for it has sacrificed so much only to see its operations record red ink all over. Yes, it’s good being patriotic but not when the bottom line tells a different story altogether that eventually leads to bankruptcy!
And you’re supposed to be a learned national policymaker, true?
Furthermore, if human rights is your forte, isn’t it about time that you work with the Clinton Administration to ensure that its policy on wealth and jobs creation is equally made applicable to this American Community however situated outside mainstream America? But it seems that your bent agenda is far removed from what we’ve read about your forte on human rights. It’s more discriminatory and destructive which had this group of US Citizens a bit amused over the gulf that emerges between your words versus your actions. Isn’t this the truth, Congressman Miller? Have you forgotten that the federal government has the fiduciary responsibility to assist the NMI “attain a progressively higher standard of living?” Nothing can be further from the truth!
If justice simply translates into a commodity that is capable of being purchased by special interest groups, i.e., the textile labor unions that have bankrolled your political career, then there’s serious doubts that super minorities and minorities really have a future under the Stars and Stripes Forever. Perhaps this is the reality of American Democracy of Dog Eat Dog and Might is Right! Be that as it may to which you seem to be the primary subscriber, I have greater hope that others morally committed to freedom, equality and justice would guide the future of our country in the next millennium. Your warped and racist leadership has no place under the bright skies of hope in America the Beautiful. Si Yuus Maase`!
