On revisiting popular MW

At Issue: The Unthinking “We Few” are great at destroying the local economy mindless of the consequences of hardship.

Our View: Cease and desist from the Picnic Attitude when our house–the public coffer–has taken severe beatings.

When politicians aspiring for top elective posts start ramblings about revisiting the ever popular minimum wage issue without taking stock of the severe plunge in revenues of more than $41 million, such a viewpoint is indicative of the following:

1. The politician has no inkling of basic economics, therefore, the dire need to take Economics 101 at NMC.

2. The politician is struggling to win support from a constituency he’s thrown to the dogs of “economic bad times” emanating from protectionist measures under his tutorship.

3. The politician never realized that even the latest increase of 10 percent for all government employees (approved some three years ago) can’t be implemented because of the substantial drop in revenue.

4. The politician never came full measure to understanding that because he’s failed to introduce economic stimulus packages, more than 2000-plus tourist related businesses have shut their doors and gone home.

5. Perhaps the politician wants to tax businesses and industries further just for the grand opportunity to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

The “great” idea of toying around with people’s emotions during these economic bad times further illustrates the politician’s apparent loss of the pulse of the financial posture of the NMI and is struggling to find a social issue to identify with at all cost.

Mr. Politician needs to understand two key words in his role as a knee-jerk public servant: Sympathy vs. Empathy.

There’s a stark difference in the actual definition and implication of the two words.
Sympathy is to generously mandate all the wrong solutions to strengthen the Big Brother attitude, detrimentally forcing reliance on the cargo cult mentality. Empathy is to empower people to acquire lifetime skills so they can attain pride in their work for the rest of their lives.

Mr. Politician has failed his people by the very protectionist measures he’s allowed to move through both chambers in recent years.
He’s anti-business and never ably forged a partnership with the private sector to revive loss of revenue generation. Now, he wants to sacrifice the private sector further so he obtains another superficial solution that businesses would pass on as an added cost in the form of increased prices for basic commodities.

Mr. Politician, please refrain gracefully from shutting down more businesses and not when, by the very measures you’ve allowed, there are hardly any jobs around today especially for our own people. You’re the key player in derailing expansion of current investments and in the process, discouraged future investments. Why don’t you join the agenda of the new House Leadership in wealth and jobs creation. This is a surer ticket for more revenues and jobs for the people you have ignorantly subjected to economic hardship. Si Yuus Maase`!