We sit quietly like industrial sponge, absorbing everything that spills around us. We express a sense of despair when, in our view, ill-conceived decisions are made recklessly from imperial Capital Hill. We react with \u201cDalai `ste\u201d. Translated it simply means, \u201cOMG, this is despicably beyond decency!\u201d<\/p>\n
Though usually expressed with civility, there\u2019s no mistaking the uncompromising disapproval of the unfolding event before them. It isn\u2019t new in either spirit or form.<\/p>\n
The reaction hits home. Curious though the behavior where we just refuse to put our best foot forward to inflict realistic change.<\/p>\n
It is this element that remains the larger myth. Does it matter or is the convenient forgetfulness or inability to remember our experiences a cultural thing too? And do we simply accept it lazily or step up to the plate to make a difference? Eh, I need help understanding this seemingly disorienting cultural demeanor or am I overreacting?<\/p>\n
You see there\u2019s no such thing as waiting for a savior who would emerge and carry the load of the majority up ahead. Nah! Either we step up ourselves together or we\u2019re doomed repeating the same wishful thinking and mistakes of sheer victims of self-inflicted ignorance and acquiescence for another millennium. It\u2019s called procrastination! We can\u2019t afford it any longer!<\/p>\n
Excess layers of government:<\/strong> Since time immemorial it seems our walking understanding of government is more government. We do this by creating layers of government without doing due diligence if there\u2019s a need for it. We even fail to budget for new positions! I suppose it\u2019s their version of planning in non-existent planning!<\/p>\n The CUC feud is a perfect example of more government layers: five more jobs each for Tinian and Rota. There\u2019s nothing the board could hang its hat on other than fume expletives for being caught with its pants down. We can\u2019t get our act together on small issues. Imagine if we had to dispose of the more substantive matters of state.<\/p>\n This adolescency is humiliating! CUC board members Alberto Taitano (Rota) and Eric San Nicolas (Tinian) are smiling nervously, completely oblivious to inference. But then what did we expect of shallow airheads smiling like fools as though punch drunk of their inability to grasp the gist of policymaking?<\/p>\n Collective stupidity:<\/strong> This decision means ratepayers\u2014you and I\u2014are hooked to paying the salaries and benefits of 10 more useless or drone government employees. It satisfies the ego of board members at the expense of ratepayers they simply refuse to protect as board members. Confused over policy versus micro-management? Obviously! Dumb!<\/p>\n Where\u2019s your sense of fiduciary duty? Why do you share the same mentality as Sen. Sixto Igisomar? Are you guys in collusion to pass more unsolicited costs on utility expenses because you\u2019ve decided to play Santa Claus in October against ratepayers?<\/p>\n It\u2019s your ego versus our family pocketbooks, stupid! Does this make any sense at all to any of your retardant minds so clueless about anything that pertains to economics? It\u2019s family economics in real bad times, dumb head! How do we deal with collective stupidity?<\/p>\n The decision should hail from the acting CEO who has a walking knowledge what the agency needs, not what politicians suspect are needed as recommended in recent weeks. Sesuzzz! When do we employ inference?<\/p>\n Sorry Lai:<\/strong> The recent intramural slugfest on the budget is as interesting as it is infuriating. Gov. Inos should have sought calming discussions justifying his decision on certain aspects of the budget.<\/p>\n He tactfully made the boys look superficially good but equally lame and shallow for messing the budget. I know the boys aren\u2019t taking it in stride. They\u2019d be roaring back soon for a real war. The presiding officers aren\u2019t going to settle for political niceties. They\u2019d be back with both barrels.<\/p>\n Puzzling how a senator came back with his dissertation and struggled to explain his lack of clarity of the word \u201cmisconception\u201d when he actually meant \u201cmisperception.\u201d He left with his tail tucked tightly between his legs. Or did he just leave without knowing that his professorial explanation is confused and useless?<\/p>\n As infuriating the week may be, I also got tons of laughs when the boys displayed how much they lack clarity on the supremacy of laws or the principle of separation of powers or how to stay constitutional. It\u2019s back to the drawing boards for the legislature.<\/p>\n We ponder and even make quick acknowledgments of the deepening hardship at home woefully nervous as it sinks into the sea of uncertainty.<\/p>\n Furthermore, there\u2019s the heavy temblor of disunity shaking GOP land between the governor\u2019s and lt. governor\u2019s troops. Yes, even this hidden temblor turns, \u201cDalai `set!\u201d<\/p>\n Thoughtful cruise:<\/strong> I\u2019d even take cruises along panoramic beach road between Fishing Base and Oleai pondering upon issues that matter. Not sure where I missed the Chichipopo Train out of the Sugar King park.<\/p>\n But you quiz the seeming lack of perception or reluctant common sense from the pomposity of the elected elite. Why the constant misperception? Or perhaps it\u2019s a global pandemic that has finally landed on our shores?<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t this a tale of the guys and gals being long on political ambition woefully short on principles! Humiliating, isn\u2019t it? If you can\u2019t even employ \u201csimple apprehension\u201d then you have no business venturing into the serious work of policymaking!<\/p>\n Trust:<\/strong> It would be interesting to survey what percentage of the population still hold confidence or trust in what the administration and the legislature are doing. 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