On President Clinton’s wealth creation policy

President Clinton has recently vowed to spend his last 18 months in office bringing the “economic good times” to places in the country who apparently have been “left behind”. To accomplish such mission, he’s asked businesses to invest in poor counties so that through wealth and jobs creation, all Americans can enjoy and benefit from the robust economy of the country.

As President Clinton trumpets his message of commitment to bring wealth and jobs creation especially to poor communities throughout the country, it boggles the mind whether such policy includes the ravaged economies of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the Aloha State by the Asian Crisis. It’s a good policy that would grant the downtrodden the opportunity to partake in all the benefits that mainstream America has neglected for years.

Since the inception of the CNMI’s relationship with our mother country, most of the investments here have come from Japan and East Asia. These investments, within the context of President Clinton’s policy, are in fact wealth and jobs creation which enabled this laboratory of democracy to sever the umbilical cords of grant funds for government operations since 1993. We take pride in this accomplishment unmatched in the history of insular possession even as we close out this millennium.

The mind boggling irony in the President’s message and commitment to bring wealth and jobs creation to every community under the “Stars and Stripes Forever” is the agenda by its very people in the US Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs which comprises of a scheme to accomplish the exact opposite–abject poverty and helplessness. This agenda is diametrically contrary to President Clinton’s policy of bringing wealth and jobs creation to every corner of the entire American landscape.

To begin anew and mend this soured relationship, we challenge President Clinton to impose house cleaning measures at the US Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs and staff it with people who equally share your policy of wealth and jobs creation. In doing so, Mr. President, this laboratory of democracy will, for the first time, be able to be included in a policy decision to which we as U.S. Citizens equally deserve. In short, your policy must be made equally applicable to all communities throughout the country, the CNMI included.

Such a commitment would once and for all leave in the ash heap of history more than half-a-century of exclusion in all federal policies that are often imposed without due consideration of our sentiments who must endure the consequence of such policies down the years. Like all fellow Americans, we too wish to share in the benefits of your commitment to bring wealth and jobs creation to this tiny isles to stave off the unrelenting assaults of our fragile economy by the Asian contagion. Si Yuus Maase`!