Ambrose M. Bennett
THE Truth is, “a cut to educations is a slice out of the future”! WE are now facing “gigantic explosions on the mainland with a pending implosion in the CNMI” if nothing changes & WE falter in the voting booth! Trump is “blowing America up” at every corner and with everything within his reach. The CNMI’s Tourism industry is officially in ICU with a pending economic implosion if something is not done. But instead of rolling up their sleeves and getting to WORK to bring in new tourists they’ve been SITTING for the past three years and even plotting incursions on PSS to rob students!!! Our youth are now & have been on the chopping-block according to Ainsley Parnes Ancheta who spoke on behalf of more than a dozen students and even the majority in the community who voted FOR the 25% to go to PSS — so think about that, as voters will be “taking names” like in school. The Commissioner is RIGHT, PSS is going BACKWARDS and Ainsley was eye-opening on how PSS has not received it’s 25% mandated by law, “not in the last fiscal year, not in the current fiscal year, and not in the proposed FY 2026 budget.” KUDOS to the Commissioner, Students & BOE, as a previous GOP-BOE stopped me from organizing teachers & students to protest PSS being short-changed, but time has been on my side changing people & BOE.
But My God, Senators & Representatives, you have all turned to “robbing students & our future into a yearly “Budget-HABIT” that must be broken NOW! You-guys are awful examples, as WE teach students to “honor the Constitution.” All of you claim to care about our youth & education, yet you violate the Constitution YOU SWORE to uphold & defend — Pathetic! If you guys can’t live up to the Constitution, then what use are YOU & the Constitution, as it was a waste voting for the 25% & disrespectful to the People to violate their Constitution!!! You’re breaking the LAW that’s imploding on our Education System, and HOW are you guys even getting away with these robberies! If the law is being broken lawsuits & the AG should be weighing in to “protect & serve our youth & Constitution” in this matter. I saw this Same -O Republican tactic of slowing robbing the Retirement Fund until it was DEAD and now, its yearly “Robberies @ PSS” instead of Doing their Jobs to create Economic Growth & NEW MONEY like parents are forced to do. The CNMI is about to implode upon itself due to Neglect! But Unlike explosions where things just fly everywhere like we witness Trump’s & JFK’s destruction, the effects of an implosion are everything-collapsing in-on-itself like we are witnessing with our economy. Explosions are usually generated on-purpose like Trump & JFK are deliberately doing but more-often-than-not implosions are driven by “mistakes” (negligence)like we are witnessing the negligence with our economy, and the mistakes with submersibles that implode leading to deaths. These are dramatic pictures of what’s to come but also the TRUTH if leaders don’t change!
The pending explosion & implosion are REAL, as you only need to look at America and how Trump is applying political pressure to “achieve HIS autocracy.” Heck, our youth are not safe, and Rep. Ralph Yumul refuses to even “address nor fix the Casino Commissioners,” as they keep trying their “temporary fixes to permanent problems” letting the mess FESTER and being quite only makes Ambrodamus LOUDER Ralph. OUR arrival rates continue to plummet, yet there is just one plan Gambling & China that has eluded us for almost two years — Jude! I think most of us started learning about “a plan B” as early as Jr. High-School, yet it seems our leaders have yet to come up with a plan B beyond Casino(s) & China. WE are WAITING yet approaching over a decade on this gambling merry-go-round to nowhere, something the late Bishop Camacho wanted us to avoid but couldn’t, the “church & state demarcation line.” I just refuse to let his wishes die and those hatting my Family Destination Reform idea for Casinos & Gambling need to know they’re hating on the late Bishop too!
But speaking of church, I KNEW the day Trump was sworn in and he refused to even touch the Bible, I KNEW, America and the CNMI were figuratively in for a ride on Airforce One that could end with a “crash landing,” as who avoids touching the Bible — evil does for one! I even warned Americans in 2018, to “buckle your seat belts” in the caption of the picture on my book cover with Airforce-1, “The Audacity to Change” on Amazon Books. I also KNEW when our Executive was NOT talking about nor offering some kind of Economic Recovery Plan that WE the People of the CNMI were in for the “Same-O poli-tricking ride to nowhere” and here WE are even worse off than we were before Covid. I’m not hating on Republicans but the TRUTH-IS they have “FAILED-to-Do” on the mainland and in the CNMI leaving everyone afraid of “what’s to come” — pending explosions & the CNMI’s implosion! I’m just praying that it won’t take an economic implosion in the CNMI before there is a majority consensus that Ambrodamus and even the editor Zaldy were RIGHT about a lot of things that could’ve helped our government & economy but were ignored by our leaders who have remained IMPOTENT to deliver New Money to the CNMI. “Voter’s Oversight is what Guarantees our Democracy will Thrive” when leaders & too many voters ignore people like Ambrodamus, Zaldy & Mr. Jang, as history has PROVEN too many times these people- activists, philosophers, intellectuals & visionaries, were RIGHT! FYI readers, “if WE don’t learn the lessons taught about Republicans in our own recent history, WE are DOOMED to repeat the Same-O,” like we’re experiencing with our economy in ICU again, as I predicted — Truth & Time Have Always Been on My Side!
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.
