We were under the impression that the 902 Team who took a quick trip to Washington recently would resolve the \u201cDog Chase Tail\u201d immigration issue.<\/p>\n
The team came back empty-handed but learned how to do \u201cagenda setting\u201d for the next meeting while junketing on taxpayers\u2019 dime. Call it a fraud. But the team shopped at SearsRoebuck disappointed that Interior\u2019s Esther Kia`aina didn\u2019t recognize their new wardrobe.<\/p>\n
It boasts cluelessness of the larger pile of Obama\u2019s \u201cmidnight\u201d regulations of more than 20,000 major WH impositions. Stunning the myopic view convinced taxpayers are dumb! Nah! We know the truth in the tale of failure returning home with SearsRoebuck receipts!<\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t heard from Kilili what these newly manufactured regulations are about. I know the new regulations are crafted by non-elected bureaucrats in cahoots with Mr. O. Could Kilili give us a synopsis what the impending monstrosity entail?<\/p>\n
The challenge is on our side of the Pacific Divide that literally requires inching our blurred vision in mega superstorm of impending federal regulations. We\u2019d probably be unable to decipher what the regulations entail when slammed with it, but then we\u2019ve learned \u201cagenda-setting\u201d and suspect wardrobe.<\/p>\n
Sure, we roll around the hand-made floor mat of ma\u00f1ana daydreaming and hoping that any impending imposition in negative federal policy would be forgiven. <\/p>\n
The point that we fail to understand is: Washington is the most powerful seat of government the world over. It matters that we know and understand policies still in the drafting stage so we say our piece on a timely basis. To wait for their implementation without any history of the measure(s) would be foolhardy.<\/p>\n
Employment industry: <\/strong>Perhaps it is ingrained in our DNA to accept the constant expansion of the NMI government so it retains the top post as the largest non-revenue employment industry here! We have nearly 3,000 employees drawing biweekly loot from taxes we pay through the nose. What do we get out of this politically messy design?<\/p>\n The fallacy we overlook is simple: government isn\u2019t in the business of turning-in a profit at day\u2019s end. This is the role of private industries being the productive sector of the local community. What happens when private industry contracts significantly forced by the highly destructive immigration law?<\/p>\n It\u2019s time the issue is addressed and resolved forthwith. Why must taxpayers be on the hook for excesses from eggheads on the hill? How long would you drag us through the abyss of abject poverty? Why must we pay for useless political hire? <\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Attribution theory:<\/strong> It sounds big but the business theory is simple in its exercise. In other words, we look around us to see what prompted a certain issue to degenerate as to impose losses rather than profit. At the community level it\u2019s hardship on people in the villages. It requires critical review and options how to deal with it based on a set of facts.<\/p>\n For instance, the local government is suffering heavily from financial leaks. Isn\u2019t true that the public payroll is made up of nearly 3,000 employees? If the projected revenue for FY`17 is around $120 million, subtract 80 percent the total being $96 million. For this much money we ask: what\u2019s our benefit as taxpayers?<\/p>\n The review process should employ a desk audit to pin down the requisite staff size with positions filled by people with minimum credentials. It may mean a reduction in force that would move more funds to public services where it matters the most. I\u2019ve done critical fiscal management in both sectors and proud of my accomplishments. I rescued the firm from going belly up the latter was a huge savings to taxpayers!<\/p>\n Then we have CUC who can\u2019t figure its ABCs. The filthy mix of micro-management by an incompetent board piled by the utility agency\u2019s myriad of accounting issues aren\u2019t the way to turn a fast sinking ship headed into the reef. Need consumers suffer from persistent brownouts and waterless hours because of CUC\u2019s incompetence? Is the \u201csolutions driven\u201d team anywhere near Dandan?<\/p>\n Brexit is coming:<\/strong> The term \u201cBrexit\u201d is the short cut for Great Britain pulling out of the European Union (EU). It\u2019s good for the country that also brought home billions of dollars for its people. It\u2019s a better deal over feeding clueless bureaucrats in Brussels who are used to the high life while ordinary people struggle daily to make ends meet.<\/p>\n The refrain or voice of the ordinary folks is basically a slam of establishment types who quickly attend to their own interests over those they represent. This can be seen in the surge of GOP presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump. His message resonates well with a majority of ordinary people across the country.<\/p>\n Here at home I call it \u201caffluenza\u201d where the local elected elite pays more attention to whimsical demands of their rich donors as to instantly ignore the interest of the people who placed them in office. Are you on someone\u2019s payroll? The sense of utter frustration should reveal itself this midterm election. <\/p>\n Creeping crisis:<\/strong> The indigenous people are faced with challenges navigating the demands of a life that was versus modernity while lamenting the fading trails and echo of traditional foundation.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a three-pronged challenge wrestling with tradition or \u201cwhat it was\u201d versus \u201cwhat it should be\u201d\u2014the ideal situation\u2014mirrored against \u201cwhat it is\u201d hence.<\/p>\n It brings us squarely to how much of what\u2019s known as cultural \u201cfamilial piety\u201d or obligation would we retain while meeting the demands of self-support.<\/p>\n The emerging problem of taking care of the elderly in Japan has reached \u201cdemographic\u201d crisis. \u201cIts current life expectancy, highest in the world, is 84 and rising, according to Michael Hoffman in a recent OpEd piece in the Japan Times. <\/p>\n \u201cOut of a population of 127 million, the number of people suffering from dementia is 4.6 million, and \u201cincreasing beyond our expectation,\u201d says the Japan Society for Dying with Dignity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were under the impression that the 902 Team who took a quick trip to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,9319,21,67],"class_list":["post-231757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cuc","tag-japan-times","tag-life","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}