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A band-aid solution
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Posted on May 05 2005
I must have been looking for concrete answers in all the wrong places, i.e., the resolution of CUC’s persistent inability to pay for fuel. It’s an 11th hour band-aid solution that simply fails to resolve the long-term issue of timely fuel payment.
That it is a band-aid solution, it stands to reason therefore that in the near future it would return for more advance payments from its larger customers. This as it incurs significant obligation by advancing from its clientele today.
The answers are staring right in eyes of board members and this administration. If they buckle down to prudent financial management, it should collectively resolve both the short and long-term payment of fuel. But it has chosen to accelerate the dog-chase-tail syndrome.
Too, a lot has gone wrong in our tiny paradise. We will soon see the dedication of a multi-million dollar jail facility in the wake of new classrooms being dwarfed by quick increases in enrollment. Are we really anticipating that more of our people are headed to jail?
MPLA wanted to impose fees versus Verizon for use of public land. Well, the same fees ought to be levied KMCV Television, CUC, and motorists using the public highways. Strange that while a lot of states in the U.S. mainland have offered free public land to investors, we’re doing the exact opposite. I suppose we can attribute this to our shallow and hollow perception on wealth and jobs creation.
I hope these misgivings aren’t the microcosm of what lies ahead. By then, we would have turned paradise into the hellish hole for, yes, our own people. Hello, anybody home?
John S. DelRosario, Jr.
Koblerville
