Payroll of deception

We are swamped with issues of substance derailing understanding, clarity, and their implications. Chances of misperception are heightened by the usual lack of focus. We boast shortsighted dispositions and staples of negligence in business as usual.

Often quiz why is there such audacious arrogance in the aloof demeanor of people on imperial Capital Hill. Quite a journey in the obvious and ludicrous riddle what may have gone astray? It’s an interesting political shift though.

Appalling the consistent rumors flying everywhere of people being on payroll somewhere to serve as servile lapdogs and tigers of favored rich donors. Their income is pipelined quietly to keep it from the not so ignorant. I mean one plus one is two!

What I refer to as the local triad are paid guards to keep the boys in check or domesticated when they begin going astray that could endanger the fate of the firm. Call it cronyism! No wonder the deepening distrust in government!

Sitting atop nuclear bombs

The narrative or mouthwash in town is the insolvency of the NMI. Though talked about in umpteen ways, most folks have no idea how to wiggle their way out of the deepening hardship.

Though there’s self-denial, the fragile shield would soon crumble of its own weight. We refuse to accept it, yet it’s the truth no matter how you slice, splice, or dice it. Harping about it is simply to raise the red flag that the NMI is sitting atop two nuclear time bombs. They are:

•The depletion of funds when investment money is spent down to the penny two and-a-half years from now. All retirees would be broke in their final golden years.

•The Defined Contribution plan would also kick-in when current members retire only to find out that they too are forced into instant poverty for insufficient income.

The issue merits critical review, if not, reform measures to see if it could return to a self-sustaining posture. Otherwise, there would be over three thousand very unhappy campers some two and-a-half years from now.

The Defined Contribution plan also merits review the goal being to ensure that future retirees could live with decent income in their golden years. Both require the services of experts to dissect means of revival and survival. Do small private sector employers provide 401(k) plan for their employees? What becomes of their employees in their golden years?

If this weren’t undertaken on both fronts then more unhappy campers would be gathering along the shore of insolvency to ponder their future in the abyss of poverty the prized trophy of so-called leadership’s staples of negligence. Sleepwalking, anybody?

Parting with Passivity: It must be contentment wrapped in mañana and corrupting politics that has sent us to the quiet corners of humiliating passivity. We cringe and quiz to death if this is the future then instantly succumb to instant dementia.

The instability found in an island economy is as perennial as the grass. Though the grass may have been torched by long droughts in the lack of leadership we take it in stride as though Santa Claus is coming to town. What adolescency!

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The Administrative State: Senator Terry Santos shared an essay by Charles J. Cooper of National Affairs, a quarterly journal in Washington on the “administrative state.”

In “four opinions authored by Justice Clarence Thomas call into question the constitutionality of the massive and largely unaccountable bureaucracy that we commonly refer to as the administrative state. In bold and clear prose, Justice Thomas explained how the basic principles of our Constitution’s separation of powers are incompatible with the system of bureaucratic rule that took root in the Progressive era and now reaches into virtually every realm of American life.

“It is fitting that we refer to the administrative state as a “state,” for it has become a sovereign power unto itself, an imperium regulating virtually every dimension of our lives. Its nearly 450 agencies are manned by legions of bureaucrats, now numbering almost 2.7 million. In 2013 alone, 3,659 final rules were issued, adding 26,417 pages to the Federal Register.”

Said Senator Santos: “This ruins self-government everywhere especially small entities like the NMI.” I couldn’t agree more.

Voter anger across the country

The establishments on both sides of the national political spectrum are stunned by the voter anger across the country. Simple: both sides have listened to themselves not the voters. This time the voters are saying it’s time to look after our own welfare by defying every pitch to stay with the old irrelevant establishment. I couldn’t agree more.

The promises made were never fulfilled though both sides almost instantly joined the Big Boys Club, e.g., corporate America who dangled a secured future after office. So they dropped their promises to improve the livelihood of the average citizen in favor of their pockets. It’s such a cozy and dangerous relationship where “we the people” are treated like fools or roadside trash.

The same has happened here since 1979. It continues to be the new fad of the elected elite. Local Republicans on the hill promised everything except its audacity to trash the voice of “we the people” who shot down casino twice. It’s all the thirst to cozy up with rich donors. Fine. It’s our turn to bring our anger to them this November.

Wasted the promise of a hopeful and brighter tomorrow reduced to negligence in the demeaning manner you have treated the voice of “we the people” as you cement cozying up with rich donors. We may not have the money but our powerful voice would be heard once more this November. Enough of the arrogance and demagoguery delivered in “bait-and-switch” fashion.