Need for proactive plans
The Issue: Local leadership must look beyond the years as it wrestles with new challenges of the next millennium.
Our View: The NMI must not repeat history of greasing its mañana syndrome lest we’d be swimming in the stormy seas of the 20th Century.
As the NMI prepares to enter the new millennium still dazed by the vicious federal takeover agenda and the crash of its tourism industry as a result of the Asian Crisis, local leadership must regroup to rechart the desired goals of paradise in the first quarter of the 21st Century.
Never mind that Interior’s OIA is still struggling to exit the stormy seas of the 19th Century, local leadership must build local resolve to map-out proactive plans to meet the challenges of the future. And it must do so in concert with the powers that be in the US Congress.
A quick glimpse into the would-be 16-years of political dominance by the Republican controlled administration and legislature sadly reveals the lack of substantive programs to improve the economic lot of our working people. To wit: The job market has gone from abundancy to scarcity where hundreds of local applicants clamor often against the more qualified guest workers for jobs. It’s a tale that local leadership has lost focus of its fiduciary responsibility especially in the education of our people so they acquire lifetime skills.
Our sentiment isn’t to take local leadership to task for its failure at wealth and jobs creation, but to remind our astute visionaries that the “tide waits for no man”. A sense of humility must descend among key players to try the drum roll of one who promises to infuse lasting investments into these isles–wealth creation–that would eventually translate into jobs creation.
Indeed, the process of wealth creation is a tedious one that takes several years before we begin realizing its benefits. It behooves local leadership, therefore, to listen to its conscience and not be guided recklessly by vacuous political correctness that would deny the children of these isles greater opportunities in the next millennium.
Listening is one of the most important traits of a leader. It is this very trait that had huge corporations today analyzing the very secret to President Lincoln’s very successful leadership. Shall we begin listening to our conscience in order that we meet the challenges of leadership in the next millennium? We need visionaries with proactive plans. We owe it to ourselves!
