This mess has been created because the residents were too busy or lazy to get involved. Come election time you are all out there waving signs and working for one politician or another. When the election is over you all feel that your job is done. Well you are wrong. Your job has just started. You need to pay attention to what they are doing. When they start working for special interest groups and not for the good of the island you should get in their faces and remind them who is paying their wages.
If you care about your future and the future of your families. Please come to the multi-purpose center on the evening of Feb. 17, from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. I will explain to you why CUC is in the mess it is in and one way to get out of it. Do not get the wrong idea I am not trying to tell you what to do. What I am doing is putting out an idea that I know will work. If you have any ideas come to the meeting and let’s hear from you. But please let’s work together and get this island moving again. I feel that it is very clear that the elected lawmakers are not going to get the job done.
New topic. This is to the Legislature. Instead of passing a bunch of new laws that no one will enforce, why don’t you figure out a way to in force the laws that we already have? Like the vehicle registration and insurance laws. Enforce tax collection from the small stores and the roadside fish vendors. Enforce collection of all taxes that are due the government. Go after all the people who have legal judgments against them. You would be surprised at how much money you could bring in.
Next topic. I find it very strange that we want to be a tourist destination. But you keep passing laws to drive them away. I am talking about the smoking ban. I am also talking about the way they are treated when they arrive here. Then after we get them here, we let them get mugged and robed. Wonder why the numbers are down.
Next, to former Gov. Froilan C. Tenorio. You have spent a lot of time telling us all about all the wonderful things that the casino developer is going to do for the island. Well I will make you a deal. You show us a legal document that lays out all that the developer is going to do for the island, and any market research that you have done that shows that a casino will make money here. Then I will support having a casino on Saipan. Fair enough?
FREDERICK PROSSER
As Matuis, Saipan
