THE Truth is Ambrodamus has been yelling & warning about “life & times in the CNMI being the SAME-O” and yet there is nothing NEW coming from any of our leaders. The fact that the Governor has already implemented Austerity with an announcement of MORE-To-Come is PROOF that WE the People of the CNMI can only expect the SAME-O that has been going on for nearly a decade under the Republican Rulers in the CNMI, as most of the Independents are really Republicans using the “fake title” of Independent. I also WARNED that our Delegate would not be the savior like Kilili used to be, as it is her Republican Party & their leader who are now literally DESTROYING our Democracy and even OUR White House. I do commend Dr. Glavin for speaking up, but the battle is in Washington where WE, the CNMI nor our GOP Delegate hold a candle of light to influence the outcomes of Trump’s intentions. WE are in DEEP Sh&$ while Trump parties at Mar Lago!
For over a decade WE have experienced the Same-O leaders at the helm with the Same-O TAYA and now LOOK! It is clear now even to the Blind that WE, the CNMI, have fallen into the abyss of economic DOOM with the Same-O by the new so-called Economic Council that can only recommend the Same-O “austerity & freeze on hiring” which WE didn’t need a Council to tell us. WE the People have been PLAYED by Republicans here in the CNMI and on the mainland to “No-End in sight of a light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel LITERALLY”! I feel so sorry for the People of America, especially the POOR who are helpless and can only accept the horrors that are being bestowed upon them by Republicans. Republicans are even meeting in secret in Washington without Democrats to plot & scheme their Boss’s agenda to destroy any and all help FOR the average & poor American. The CNMI is now learning the HARD WAY that “locals are not part of the White Conservative America,” as it has to be embarrassing now for Locals to even suggest they are Republicans.
I surely hope CNMI readers can now see WHY Ambrodamus was pushing so hard for the Democrats in the CNMI to WAKE-UP and start leading but they have remained silent with nothing BETTER to offer, thus WE the People are literally SCREWED with no real Plan nor Hope for any real changes & improvements. It has been a real HORROR SHOW for me to see the WASTE in the Cannabis & Casino Commissions and the MACS scam giveaway of our taxes are allowed to continue without oversight when people are literally now facing starvation. The SNAP catastrophe is going to have a domino effect, as people must eat FIRST leaving the poor with no money for anything else (power, gas, mortgages, communications etc.). WE voted ourselves into this mess and WE must vote ourselves OUT of this mess, as “WE can’t fix our economic woes with the SAME-O (Republicans) mentality that caused this mess,” Albert Einstein. I can’t wait to see the Republicans in the CNMI who will run in 2026, as Independents appear to be OUR only hope if the Dems don’t wake up and start “working FOR the People.” For me, it seems Dems & Independents are depending on Republican Failures to win instead of promoting New Reforms and doing the work to create a New Tourism & Industrial Models FOR the CNMI.
America, including the CNMI, has been subdued by a GOP Party led & controlled by “alpha-males” with blind-faith emissaries dedicated to serving the desires of ONE (Trump) with no regard for People of color and the struggles of ordinary People. Our Governors are no better with “favoritism of Casino Commissioners, nepotism in the Cannabis Commission, waste & free tax giveaways to MACS” proving WE the People didn’t learn to create MORE Accountability through Public Outcry from the wasteful BOOST scheme! Now WE are still experiencing the SAME-O with no Recovery Plan just like Ambrodamus predicted. Not even the new Independent Candidates for Governor & Lt. are offering anything in the way of Reforms to generate NEW Tourists & NEW Money, which is at the very core of our economic challenges to survive. But the biggest disappointment for OUR Children is the “32 million dollar claim against OUR Children,” as PSS is OUR Children!
I commend the Secretary of Finance for doing her duty to reconcile PSS’s alleged status but WHY did it take over a decade for this reconciliation to surface only after PSS is put on the chopping block! Where is PSS supposed to get these millions when its obvious PSS is already being pushed over a financial cliff literally! The sad part is that those without children and those who are sending their children to Private School couldn’t care less about OUR Children, as the ugly comments indicate in the comment section. The “moral fabric of the CNMI has truly been decimated when OUR Children are being put on the chopping block due to the ineptitude of our leaders to deliver that is now a finger-pointing exercise to NOWHERE, as there is No Money! It’s bad enough that bigotry & party-partisanship to do TAYA rule over the ideas of Ambrodamus, Zaldy & Others that could HELP, but now it’s OUR Children on the chopping block and saying “PSS” is just whitewashing a filthy attack to deflect the impotence of CNMI leaders who seem to be only “SITTING but Not Producing Anything NEW” to HELP their People – just the Same-O Taxes & Austerity! I’ve been telling readers SO for over a decade about CNMI Republicans who “rule & control every part of OUR Government’s operations for the past two decades” and now the you-know-what has hit the fan stinking-up the entire CNMI with No Hope & still No Real Recovery Plan – I Told You So, but will the Dems wake-up and will voters listen and FIRE the Republicans.
One People, One Direction!
Ambrose M. Bennett is an Economist who minored in Sociology, a Political Scientist, a retired teacher & former CNMI Board of Education Member, a James Madison Fellow (U.S. Constitutional Scholar), a Fulbright-Hays-Lifetime Humanities & Religious Scholar who resides in Kagman III in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.