The local luggage squad

At Issue: The lack of meaningful employment opportunities right here at home is a serious problem for many families.

Our View: Is this attributable to the lack of vision and a serious plan to rebuild strong economic foundation?

Over the last several years, families leased their properties, sold households and family cars for a trip to the US mainland in hopes of finding meaningful employment in the state they have chosen for themselves.

This is the Local Luggage Squad who have been displaced by the bad economic times right here in paradise. They reason that it isn’t worth it waiting for another six months before they could land a job if at all. They have already waited in frustration for more than a year.
There doesn’t seem to be anything up that alley of uncertainty. It’s time to move while family resources could be used to find better opportunities elsewhere away from familiar settings.

Indeed, we can blame the vicious assault of the Asian Crisis for the plunge in the local economy and the ruination of these isles as a sound investment venue by detractors’ plan on federalization. But we should also blame ourselves for fueling the steady erosion of these isles’ economic foundation through the approval of protectionist measures. The effect of the triad has finally taken its toll in the loss of wealth and jobs creation for hundreds of our local people. We quiz if in fact this downward spiral has reached rock bottom.

We hope that those who were at the helm understand the full measure of their lack of vision and commitment to bring the economic lot of our people to greater heights. The slow departure of what we have coined the Local Luggage Squad is a tale of how leadership in the last six years have failed them find opportunities right here in paradise. They will leave home saddened by the necessity of having to leave behind a familiar setting though equally hopeful that the opportunities they are searching for abound in the other side of the Pacific.

This is a rather alarming phenomenon defining and crystallizing what happens when complacency dominates leadership’s attitude of “business as usual”. It is not and we hope that with a determined House leadership to bolt out of the sea of mañana that there won’t be an exodus of indigenous people heading for jetways in search of better and brighter opportunities abroad.

Turning these isles into the hell-hole of our children is far from their dreams of preserving the very essence of paradise for posterity. “How sad the wind our sails are torn”. With a sense of vision and humility we can rebuild these isles into the paradise so deserving of our people. Si Yuus Maase`!