Back to basics, anybody?

My salute to the governor for vetoing measures that would have accelerated the bankruptcy of the retirement program.

What the program needs to do is open up its books and show Senator Joaquin Adriano what it has to contend with in Assets vs. Liability.

Furthermore, why is he dead set in granting more UNEARNED perks for the most unproductive people in the local work force?

This generous adolescency is the very culprit that discourages locals from working in the private sector. The disparity in wages is a gulf apart where private sector employees are enslaved to pay additional perks for unproductive government employees.

Would Senator Adriano and Senate cabal be willing to stand before the retirement building to tell retirees why they can’t receive their paychecks when a payless payday turns into reality?

I’m appalled at the Senate’s ability to disregard factual data of the current fragility of program’s financial solvency.
Wonder if logic has ever been employed or is this term a foreign object for our men of wisdom in the Senate?

Don’t toy with the livelihood of retirees who already know the evil architects behind the agenda to derail the solvency of the program!
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Cut the chase too, Senator Adriano, on the proposed empowerment of municipal councils.
You’ve missed the boat completely by proposing a measure that attempts to circumvent or usurp the supremacy of the NMI Constitution.

I support your idea, but it involves a process, a process that logically requires the obvious need to push a legislative initiative to amend current constitutional provision on legislative authority of delegations. In other words, the supremacy of laws reigns in this case.

To push for an arbitrary empowerment of the council would only result in another executive veto given that you can’t circumvent nor usurp the supremacy of laws. Do it right for I agree too that the council needs the authority to dispose of issues at the level and heart of governance.

Pertinent constitutional provision and subsequent court decisions have consistently denied legislative authority to municipal councils and no where is it written that such authority can be delegated to such body through statutory mandate. It would be an exercise in futility!
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I watched tired and bleary-eyed warriors brave the combined blistering sun and thick humidity of paradise two weekends ago. In their troubled faces are pasted millions of tiny arrows from the displaced and jobless multitude. Like tidal shifts, one must surrender to a fresh flow of sea water inching its way through the channels of paradise.
It’s hard fighting the natural forces of nature! And it doesn’t take the brains
of a rocket scientist to discern the quiet though powerful messages in the faces of the abandoned and neglected.
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Then there’s the gradual build-up of an implosion that will burst like ruptured fuel pipes at a major oil refinery. The fire crew will never be able to contain the inferno as pyrotechnics light up the starry skies of paradise. We would have more than our share of Fourth of July fireworks. Should be an interesting year-and-a-half as we march towards that day of reckoning. Well, you can blame it on the “Cha Cha Cha!” or perhaps a strange scent from some exotic tropical flower.
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It’s all interesting how Kingmakers (who have donned the halo of Queen Bees) may find its tired servants clamoring for better answers. It deals with family pocketbooks and if you have failed royally to provide them the dignified means to support their families, your agenda in the sea of discontentment is basically history!