Jobs for new graduates?

At Issue: More than 400 seniors will leave campus by this weekend half of whom will be looking for jobs.

Our View: Have we prepared work opportunities for these graduates so they can pay for their tuition at NMC?

When Speaker Benigno R. Fitial took over the helm last January, he was ready to move reform measures that will lay down the groundwork for what’s known as wealth and jobs creation.

These measures are designed to untangle strangling protectionist laws approved by previous legislatures, including the ill-conceived $100,000 security deposit required of businesses.

The new proposals are well thought-out measures that included the participation of the business community. The basic intent is to untangle stifling provisions under current laws that have at best, discouraged expansion of current investments, including prospective investments redirected elsewhere because of unstable investment policies in these isles.
This is the legacy of the previous legislative leadership allowing power, greed, and arrogance as to lose the pulse of the community they represent.

Each of the last six years of failure to stave-off or neutralize the severe loss in revenue generation has translated into at least 24 years of delay in fulfilling promises to improve the quality of life in these islands. Policymakers should have been bullish in the emplacement of the legal basic infrastructure to open windows of opportunities for wealth and jobs creation.
But most weren’t able to read the deepening economic doldrums and their negative impact upon the multitude. It has failed to work in partnership with the business community who needed an economic stimulus package to weather the superstorm of the Asian Flu.

Perhaps our men of wisdom need to descend from Capital Hill just to tour business establishments throughout the island, including a quick visit to the employment division of the Department of Labor and Immigration to see the piles of local applications gathering dust. We’re not talking as yet of new high school graduates who will be seeking employment too. We’re alluding to those who have been on the job hunt for the last three years. Or are there job openings in the Senate for these locals? Only you can answer their frustrations in search of meaningful employment. They have been job hunting for the past three years to no avail. Wake up señores and meet the unemployed locals you have failed all these years. Si Yuus Maase`!