A glimpse at the larger picture

Paradise snoozes in the often calm sea of mañana, seemingly contented with the usual “picnic” attitude. It’s fine takinga break, but it is imperative that we keep abreast of bad tidings of an impending slow down of the US economy.

What’s the point?

Whatever happens across the Pacific will most assuredly affect all the recovery efforts of Japan and Asian countries. Japan has closely monitored how Mr. Allan Greenspan and his team of experts have dealt with an impending recession. A US recession could easily burst the fragile recovery of nearby Japan.

When Japan slips into a recession, the ripple effects of this phenomenon will definitely descend in these isles. What I find troubling is the devastation it would have on our ailing economy. I really hope that it won’t accelerate the closure of more tourist related businesses.

Meanwhile, when consumer purchases across the country decline (a phenomenon that started last holiday season), it means that even our apparel products are likely to suffer in the process. This too is troubling!

The greater question is: What can leadership do to ward-off bad economic times that is bound to get worse before it gets any better? I raise this question in that we seem to have that special ability to park proactivity and common sense in our back pockets.

We shower mañana’s inadequacies with wishful thinking that someday soon this and other neglected issues of substance would disappear like morning dew. These issues are still around like two-headed corn snakes that we failed to kill (resolve) and are back haunting us today.

Friends, mañana is good if each of us has money like that of the Sultan of Indonesia. We’re not and it is most appropriate that we wake up to this fact right here and now. The golden trophy of hard work only belongs to those who work for it 48 hours a day. It is never handed down on a silver platter. It is earned!

Hope leadership works up the resolve to closely guard the impending recession acros the Pacific. It is better to prepare for it now rather than wait until our people must line up along beach road to sell young coconuts and rare breatfruit. Let’s do it, now!

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Cattle rustling and other theft that took place last December is troublesome. A cousin lost 30 pigs, others lost prized cattle and poultry. A relative had his prized bull slaughtered where the hind legs were the only ones taken. He was lucky he came in time to make use of the thieves’ left over.

There’s something that the thieves must remember right here and now: Some of the livestock you stole were intended for novenas like the Three Kings. If per chance you begin feeling strange sensation in your tummy or something else has gone wrong physically, it’s all bad karma and you aren’t going to get away with it.

I know that your parents never taught you to steal in that they understand full well that it is wrong! Would you teach your own children to steal so that someday you may all share the same cell in Susupe? Is this it? Shame on you!