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On failure of administration to pay its bills
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Posted on May 12 2005
The administration fancy footed with its share of utility bills—some $20 million) by going to court to prevent CUC from cutting off power on government buildings.
A big customer who refuses to pay CUC, the latter can’t buy fuel from Mobil Oil because of legal fancy footing by the administration to buy time.
Yet, consumers at the village level are disconnected after failing to pay their utility bills. This policy must be made equally applicable even to a government so used to wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Call it fairness!
The scheme may temporarily allow the administration to run, but it can never hide from a responsibility we all share—pay or no play. Is this so difficult to understand? Why is the administration being exempted from disconnection?
Even our young scholars have started speaking their minds on wasteful spending by politicians. MCS Senior Michael Deleon Guerrero’s winning speech pointed out that despite the size of the government (too big), it remains highly inefficient. It increased budget for personnel by a whopping $100 million and spends an annual sum of $350 million for its 5,500 employees. No wonder there’s nothing left for other obligations!
A lot is wrong in our tiny paradise and no longer can we find scapegoats for our misgivings and miscalculations. When would we learn to save ourselves from ourselves? Hello, anybody home?
John S. DelRosario, Jr.
Koblerville
