Deciphering what’s at issue

Right above my computer desk at home is a plaque with the inscription: “Be sure the brain is in gear before engaging the mouth”. I interpret it to mean, use your cranium and look at the larger picture, lest you’d be swimming in the sea of ignorance and adolescency for most of your adult life. In this connection, let’s dissect issues we’ve seen introduced in bully pulpit fashion by bureaucrats and politicians from both sides of the Pacific.

Farrow-Stayman Syndrome: When a proposal fails to demonstrate the economic future and implications of their agenda, it is easy to discern that something’s amiss in what’s being offered to supplant and compromise the democratic process. And if it isn’t your league, exit the baseball diamond or you’d be trampled all over by the real major league players.

Apparently, the evil geniuses who agreed to front the agenda of a special interests group couldn’t possibly articulate their borrowed proposal for it requires substantial research by real experts rather than political stalwarts who can’t navigate hard hitting queries from this side of the Pacific. After all, we wanted rock solid answers they couldn’t provide.

Immigration: It’s a convenient tool being pushed by our detractors even without critical review of its impact on the local economy. Well, how do you turn your back on moneyed labor union bosses who give finger-snap commands that you do the full moon and rain dance or lose your treasured seat in the most powerful chambers on earth? Personal principles were sacrificed for it was pay-back time, including the scrapping of integrity as pet tigers of big labor union bosses, trashing respect for our democratic institutions upon which we’ve placed our hopes and trust for equality and justice for all US Citizens. But then how do you say “no” to people who bankroll your political career?

Minimum Wage: It’s another tool of convenience our detractors or lord of weeds were willing to employ to bring Little David to his knees. They play cutesy with the term “reform” to hide their ulterior motive. It’s the attitude of “nobody can beat us”. Well, manufacturing has become the forte of third world countries. Why the relocation to these countries of large US manufacturing companies like Levi Strauss? I’m sure their relocation isn’t premised on the search for some an exotic venue.

Here at home, the issue is fodder for mouthy politicians who offer the stairway to heaven even though they know that they know not if that stairway even exist. They seem oblivious to the fact that doing business here is exorbitantly expensive! So why pile up layers of strangling regulations that inhibit business expansion and lasting future investments? Have you really studied the impact of such measure based on a set of facts in concert with the private sector? Is this your vision of wealth and jobs creation?

Stay Limitation: This is another half-cocked creature from politicians who have yet to conduct thorough research in order to determine the impact of such measure on wealth and jobs creation or the strengthening of current investments. They’re flagging a very damaging proposal in the midst of a crisis that has yet to bottom out.
Is this the real issue or is it more a shield to cover one’s ineptitude for failing to forge progressive educational training programs to enable the indigenous people to acquire lifetime skills? Need we constantly place the bull before the cart, gentlemen? Why have you decided to be the very messengers of investment instability in these isles?