Ambrose M. Bennett
THE Truth is my #1 Bigot & Bully Critic has given me a “new name of Ambrodamus” that I like and truly appreciate, as it is in reference to the famous Nostradamus a French astrologer, apothecary, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events. Well, Time has proven Nostradamus Right about a lot of his predictions and I agree my new title of Ambrodamus is “fitting & proper” given I’ve predicted so many things that have come true in my “I Told You So” Op eds and pushed for changes that are also coming TRUE with Time being on my side, like the recent MPLT Issue to help NMDs that is finally materializing. I’m sure the overwhelming thousands in the silent majority who attend Mass and read my Op eds Do Not subscribe to Saipan Man’s comments of “ugly attacks on my dead mother, my wife and family” which I’m hopeful the editor will now CHECK & Stop, as my family are not fair game wanting to sue him. But Saipan Man & his Funny Crew proves Saipan does have real Bigots & WORSE! If they only KNEW how much I appreciate the new name and USING them for a Platform — LOL!!!
It’s a blessing those who read the “printed news” never see Saipan Man’s pathetic comments. I’m also confident the silent majority who continue offering their support are indeed frowning on Saipan Man. He didn’t appear in the comment section until the Cannabis Commission Issue when I exposed Ralph’s skullduggery & Joe Palacios trying to save his job. But like Andrew Jackson who was accused of being a “Jackass” by his opponent thinking it was an insult, he used it to get elected, as the Jackass was really an animal symbol of “traditional America & hard work”. The Jackass was the family car, truck, tractor & pet. Today the Jackass remains the Democrats’ Logo. I’ll be using Ambrodamus for my “Pen” (nickname) thanks to Saipan Man who seems truly jealous of me & my 139 IQ as he seems to have a 3rd Grade IQ with his “ugly & vulgar teasing” which is really slander. However, I’m sure this proves my IQ is much higher than his, who thinks CNN and objective news outlets are Fake News being a Trump die-heart. Ambrodamus may not have all the solutions to save the CNMI, but I have some, as I know citizens and even God is smiling.
On another subject, the continuous so-called “borrowing money from MPLT to fund the budget” is what my MaDear would call “robbing Peter to pay Paul” which is simply WRONG! Planning in advance to take money from MPLT, “NMD’s Rainy Day Savings Account” as WE say in my culture, to cover the expenses of the Government for EVERYONE only perpetuates the “impotency of the Government Officials to EARN-THEIR-KEEP.” The Devil is in the Details, as former Gov. Fitial might say, as the details tell a chilling story about OUR Budget & OUR Money, when every administration’s responsibility is to “generate sufficient revenues to fund the government” just like every Head-of-the-Household who must provide for their family. I watched and YELLED “they are Robbing the Retirement Fund” every time they so-called Borrowed money never to be paid that led to the eventual DEATH of the Retirement Fund. WE already owe 50 million from a loan to supplement the last budget and here WE go again in what I believe is robbing MPLT. No leader nor MPLT is telling us anything about the money already loaned by MPLT, I can only PRAY for the sake of ALL-of-us-in-the-cheap-seats that an elected leader(s) will find out the status and if the previous two loans were ever fully repaid BEFORE MPLT releases a New Loan — it’s called ACCOUNTABILITY FOR NMDs. So please Do your job Danny if our leaders “Fail-to-Do theirs and let us know — Thanks! WE must be as serious on Monday as we are on Sunday about “What WE have done & What WE have FAILED to Do.”
However, no one, except Senator Babauta, worked on getting “New Tourists & Investors, just GOP waiting game while New Money has yet to flow into the CNMI, as even the military intervention is yet to fully materialize — No Accountability FOR Real Progress. I am also not against Chinese Tourists that will surely come at the cost of never regaining the Japanese market if successful. However, I am against the CNMI spinning her wheels on this one source of tourists that is NOT guaranteed. Need I reiterate the last I heard No One has talked to the Chinese Government whose last statement was “we are not going to allow our citizens to travel to the CNMI to gamble” and WE are still promoting gambling. So, until there is some real ACCOUNTABILITY with China’s Government intentions and its clear China & America are on the same page with our Tourism Industry, “it’s a gamble to get Chinese Tourists.” Just FYI readers, WE started with a “Chinese Garment Industry” that got us into all kinds of trouble with the Feds due to the CNMI’s negligence with immigration that eventually led to the Federal Immigrations Takeover & a Mandate to transition the workforce in 2029. Then came the Chinese Casino that led to all kinds of corruption even a RICO Indictment for the Chinese Government allegedly making illegal campaign contributions to Republicans. Now WE are on the Chinese Tourists Train to who really knows WHERE, just gambling the Chinese will come if WE can provide the transportation not thinking the Chinese Government can say “NO and end it” at any point in time — a gamble. The sad fact is the chase for China is deflecting because WHY can’t week seek Chinese Tourist and do other things, walk & chew gum, to create New Tourists to turn our economy around for the BETTER — still no Economic Recovery Plan (no plan B) so WE’RE left with gambling solely on China AGAIN!
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.
