Wrestling with famine

Heard the views of elected officials about our fast-receding financial resources here. A $30 million shortfall must have jolted their nimble wits.

Interesting the mixed reactions that include “gross financial mismanagement” and “bankruptcy” stirring discussion on the gravity of the issue. Is it frustration, insinuation, amnesia, or fair warning of deteriorating fiscal conditions here?

With fiscal uncertainty, a legislator quizzed “where do we go from here…” and can the NMI meet plans to secure line of credit to meet its obligations on time?

Another cited the administration trumpeting a robust economy late last year. Quizzes how did it shift so quickly into a $30 million deficit?

I think this is attributable to cost associated with storm recovery efforts and departure of Nippon investments. The former is recoverable the latter is basically history, sayonara. How do we navigate such a huge financial loss?

Mind-boggling! Time for prudent spending to the hilt lest we’d be selling broken pencils all over. Our suspect fiscal condition merits constructive ocular review to figure out the beast. After all, it’s about money for the continued health care of our people and the education of our children!

Short: Agency fund shortage is very discouraging. Isn’t this indicative of revenue generation going south? Doesn’t it obviate dire economic conditions moving forward?

Understood the challenges after storms and exit of Nippon investments. But has the elected elite found the root cause of revenue degeneration? One just exited permanently, get that, pal?

Most importantly, any ideas or plans how to recoup losses in the billions of dollars beyond simple apprehension and taller than Abe Lincoln speeches? Or do we hum it to death with la mañana?

We may recover from storms, but is there a chance to recoup the billions of dollars in Nippon investments that recently took one last sayonara? Its recovery is one woefully stubborn foe the elected elite seemingly treated with complacency. It’s gone, its recovery, nada!

Destruction of storms and exit of investments combine for nothing less than $14 billion in revenue loss. Does it matter to the men of wisdom on Da Hills of Saipan? Or are you still composing and rehearsing, “not yet, already?”

I sense this as the most powerful financial earthquake we seem to have ignored in favor of convenient arrogance and ignorance! Geez! Depth of perception is the obvious missing link here. Call it untimely loss met by arrogance and ignorance to our eventual demise!

Task: Leadership is the ability to improve the quality of life of people you represent. In this connection, let’s challenge so-called leadership on the hill to improve the poverty income level of nearly 15,000 employees languishing in poverty land. Or is your compass cracked and dysfunctional?

Is this obligatory fiduciary duty something you could do now or “not yet, already?” If not now, when? Any further postponement only aggravates hardship of families at home. Is this too hard to understand what the 15,000 employees had to endure daily stuck in poverty income level? I’m our collective and constructive minds could lead this setback into hopeful tomorrows.

Coconut: A news article says clinical trials on the use of virgin coconut oil in ketogenic diet as supportive treatment for cancer has been shown to be highly promising under a clinical trial at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria.

“VCO is a recognized source of beneficial fatty acid metabolized in the liver as ketones in ketogenic diets.

“The target in the PMU clinical trial is for ketogenic diet to achieve the ‘Warburg effect,’ where cancer cells are prevented from using glycolysis to produce the organic chemical ATP (adenosine triphosphate) needed in the multiplication of cancer cells.

“Based on the results of rigorous preclinical and clinical studies performed thus far, the ketogenic diet would appear to be a promising and powerful option for adjuvant therapy for a range of cancers,” PMU said.

“The PMU clinical trial reported anti-tumor effect of ketogenic diet in 10 types of cancer. These are glioblastoma, astrocytoma, medulloblastoma, prostate cancer, colon cancer, neuroblastoma, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, stomach cancer and liver cancer.”

Now let’s get one thing straight: use of VCO is under clinical trial. So hold on to going out under the trees to pick your coconut as yet. Okay? Also, visit Dr. Webster for the term “ketogenic.” I understand it to mean a component that prevents cells from forming into cancer.