Closure of 2008

President-elect Obama continues to reiterate his campaign message of “Change We Can Believe In”. Such change should descend upon the country beginning on Jan. 20, 2009, the day of his inauguration.

But when new national leadership begins to utter the same tired old rhetoric of change that means more of the same, then the transfer of power is about the only change that is forthcoming.

Taxpayers across the country are outraged at the bailout plan that involves billions of their own money. Is it right to emplace on the shoulders of our children a huge debt they have nothing to do with at the outset? Why would they be forced to pay for the excesses and failure of auto companies? Call it a humongous preparation at debt paying by our innocent children for the next half a century!

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Two U.S. senators have raised various questions on the McPhee Report. Their concerns are on economic assumptions, people interviewed for their views on the unintended consequences of USPL 110-229.

It’s obvious who the questions came from, all aimed at discrediting the work of two professionals in order to retain federalization contrary to the consent of governance. It should be noted that a staffer of the U.S. Congress or administration must not be given carte blanche authority to unilaterally decide what’s good for the NMI. What warped sense of democracy that hails from without rather than directly from governance.

Failed US policies here over the last three decades isn’t necessarily all the fault of the federal government. I say this because of its lack of expertise as a colonial power. Great Britain is the only colonial authority that succeeded in the successful development of self-government, i.e., turnover of Hong Kong. That the NMI isn’t part of mainstream America exacerbates the unintended though persistent veil of neglect all these years.

It was only last year that we had the privilege to vote for, yes, a non-voting delegate. But then as a continuing student of government, I quiz whatever happened to equal representation inherent in one of our country’s sacred documents.

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I’ve taken stock of efforts to reduce the size of government, including downsizing the current bicameral to a unicameral legislative system. The quickest way to achieve this is via an amendment to specific Covenant agreement provision repealing that section altogether. And it is the right thing to do given the persistent decline in the NMI’s annual revenue.

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Under a republican form of government, we have three equal branches of government. One can’t exert its authority over the other. In the instant case, I strongly beg of the court to stick to the interpretation of laws so it stays constitutional. It can’t sway to the right or left. It must remain constitutional.

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May you all have a Happy and Prosperous New Year’s!