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Get your priorities straight!
“The vicious hardship is ubiquitous—could be seen everywhere—throughout the CNMI. It’s all about lapses in leadership from A-Z. “We the people” are the victims!”
Yes sir, how much more are we going to allow ourselves to dig our graves deeper? Our people are suffering daily and at the same time we look the other way.
Last month, a dear CNMI retiree elderly summoned me to his house prior to his death. He requested for me to provide lighting to his house for he was tired of having a dark house. Several days later, my dear friend passed and I was near his bedside. As I ponder who he had left behind, I was struck with anger toward our so-called local government and empathy toward the family of our departed brother. Why was there enough money to fund the Northern Mariana Descent group? Our social programs are in disarray within our island chain and at the same time we have a hundred thousand dollars appropriated for issues not affecting our underprivileged citizens. We lack a transit system to help our working poor. We have households that are living without electricity and water. Kids are forced to study their school works and read books under the streetlights.
Our dearest honorable governor and Saipan delegation, who voted to appropriate the hundred thousand dollars for the Northern Mariana Descent Corp., please get your priorities straight when it comes to helping our local people. The money could have been used for seed money to benefit people like my departed brother. He was a CNMI retiree; his family were one of the victims of your oversight when it comes to bettering our social programs throughout our island chain.
As a society, are we going to continue to ignore our underprivileged citizens in the CNMI? Are we creating future generation of failures for not providing for their social needs today? Our failure today will cost us dearly in the future. The number game at our Legislature has to come to a stop and we need to come up with solutions to better our unfortunate people.
Segundo Castro
Marpo Valley, Tinian
