Interior joins “Rigley’s Believe It or Not”

As I review the Associated Press list of stories yesterday, it included an article of a certain member of the US House of Representatives bent on abolishing the US Department of Energy. I wasn’t about to register my views for or against it, but in fact was more than prepared to justify that perhaps the more appropriate agency for abolishment is the US Department of Interior.

The lead federal agency for insular areas engages in some strange undertakings that literally translate into the total waste of US taxpayers money. To wit: Several years ago, an organ of Interior sponsored a “fish scaling” program for the Federated States of Micronesia specifically aimed at indigenous women. In the first instance, Interior’s more than 30 years custodial role should have taught them that islanders are born with fish. I mean, we learn to scale small and big fish since age three or four.

The program should have focused on “how to catch fish”. But even that would be a bit unusual, if not, strange, for we learn to catch fish at a tender age. Thus, it goes to illustrate the ignorance of an agency mandated to assist islanders attain a higher standard of living. But each move was grandly designed to dish-out contracts (with US taxpayers money) to friends of Interior.

Then a year or so ago, Interior engages in the preservation of bird droppings in Navassa Island. What strange program that includes chasing visitors and tourists so they don’t contaminate, believe it or not, bird droppings. No wonder their eye vision is often blurred for catching bird droppings from the blue skies of Navassa.
It’s another means of turning hard-earned US taxpayers money into total waste!

Since 1993, Interior wanted to justify and perpetuate its existence and the special interest of the US Textile Labor Unions. Thus, the vicious agenda to impose a federal takeover of immigration in the CNMI. It allegedly used US mainland taxpayers money to hire its own private eyes to spy on the local apparel industry here only to find out before an official hearing in the US Senate that its material can’t be used because “it can’t be verified”.

Its ill-conceived agenda ensures that the CNMI is excluded from the “economic good times” the Clinton administration trumpets across the country so that it doesn’t “leave anybody behind”. This agenda, coupled with severe economic contraction here as a direct result of the Asian Crisis, would translate into forcing US mainland taxpayers to cough-out millions of dollars of their hard-earned annual income to cushion another ill-conceived Interior policy riddled with shortsightedness of the highest order.

Finally, Interior has ordered all its employees to partake (this week) in the “Gay and Lesbian Pride Observances”, June being designated as Gay Pride Month. The memo was issued 4 June by David Montoya, deputy assistant secretary for workforce diversity. It says in part “As we all know, the department is committed to a policy of diversity and inclusion”. A couple of things I find worrisome with the continued grand waste of US mainland taxpayers money by Interior:

• 1). Is it really a designated federal policy to observe this event?

• 2). Is Interior supporting same sex marriages? If so, is it normal a relationship in racing our children where one male or female is “mom”, the other, “dad”?

• 3). If Interior supports same sex marriages, is it now really federal policy or has it decided to proceed in advance of an official position?

This is really worrisome in terms of promoting warped moral discipline among the majority of normal kids in families across the country. I strongly suggest that Interior employees refund US mainland taxpayers for the time they expend attending such strange and weird event. Better, I appeal to that member of the US House of
Representatives who wanted abolishment of the US Department of Energy to focus his attention on the wasteful activities of the US Department of Interior. No US mainland taxpayer deserves the abuse and willful waste of his or her tax contribution. Let’s include Interior in “Rigley’s Believe It Or Not” under the category “The Royal Screw” of US mainland taxpayers.