How low can our government go? Let me point out the pressing problems. Some are living in difficult conditions trying to make the best of what they can do to survive, while others are feeling and experiencing the beginning of uncertainty because they’re tapping into their savings and worrying that our economy will get much worse before it gets better. Others have to live without power while living on food stamps.
All these hardships imposed on our people are a result of carelessness, mismanagement and misconduct in our local government for the last 10 years.
The four hunters on Agrihan refused our local government’s help because they want to live the native way of life, the way we used to be as Pacific Islanders. Farming and hunting and fishing are our traditional way of life.
Wouldn’t it be great to go back in time for all of us to live in our ancestral times and not have to worry about money or bills? No we don’t want to because we chose money over our Chamolinian traditional way of living, right?
In our traditional way of living we share the abundance of food we bring together as Chamolinians but why can’t we do it the American way of living?
Are we so blinded by greed that our leaders cannot protect their own people or improve our infrastructure for our people to live in a better common sense world?
When are we going to work together for the sake of our suffering people instead of politics?
It’s never too late to do unto others what you want others to do unto you.
JOAQUIN ROMOLOR
Portland, Oregon
