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| + | == Senators should use common sense, not consultants == | ||
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| + | <html>In our current financial state, additional feasibility studies are not a valid path to economic solutions. | ||
| + | The V.I. Government is infamous for contract overruns, even with feasibility studies. Current feasibility studies are probably updates of former studies, prepared over the last 30 years. There are fewer than 200 square miles to "study" on the three main U.S. Virgin Islands. | ||
| + | Are the studies in storage or gone with destroyed structures from Hurricanes Hugo (1989) and Marilyn (1995)? Certain departmental heads are intelligent enough to update obsolete reports, if we still have them. | ||
| + | General Buddhoe, Queen Mary,[http://hebammenwiki.de/index.php?title=Benutzer:Taylor026#So.2C_you_want_to_play_for_the_Dynamo_.E2.80.A6_open_tryouts_com So, you want to play for the Dynamo … open tryouts com], D. Hamilton Jackson,[http://www.jerseys-hearts.com/Nike-Giants-80-Cruz-Blue&White-Split-Elite-Jerseys-24581/ Nike Giants 80 Cruz Blue&White Split Elite Jerseys], and Martin Luther King - immigrants into the Virgin Islands and the United States of America's founding fathers did not have feasibility studies. Slaves were emancipated by revolting. The St. Croix Labor Union succeeded as a business entity. The civil rights movement succeeded in liberation for blacks. The USA was created through will and determination by "freedom-seeking" former English subjects. | ||
| + | Some decisions must be based on knowledge gained by personal research, historical understanding and heart-felt faith in order to save money. | ||
| + | How many times have we thought out economy would not get worse, and it did? Our community voices have suggested solutions to many economic problems over the years. We know the solutions - it seems no one wants to enact them. | ||
| + | It is not economically sound to rent privately owned office spaces for government use or to let buildings deteriorate to the point they make employees sick and are condemned. We have former housing project buildings sitting abandoned and unused. | ||
| + | But all of this is "free" money: personal health law suits; hundreds of thousands of dollars in income for consultants driving around in air conditioned SUVs and typing reports in air conditioned offices; exorbitant rent income for political supporters; money for constructing new capital projects over budget - and on and on. | ||
| + | When will V.I. senators stop worrying about who will or will not be happy with their decisions and do what is best for the Virgin Islands' community? Like marriages, communities are rarely 100 percent in agreement, but as concerned citizens we must insist that our senators be committed to community enhancement and growth. We must keep printing and voicing our solutions until they are achieved. Those who don't like the majority decisions will leave. | ||
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| + | When they change our political structure to allow everyone to benefit by political activity, I will know they care. | ||
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| + | Our economy is out of balance. Only financial sacrifice by everyone, plus an influx of a variety of mid-size export-based businesses can bring it back; not floating more bonds. Hopefully,[http://www.alicom.com.br/wikicom/index.php/Usu%C3%A1rio:Nomore702#Jets.27_Burmistrov_leaves_for_Russia Jets' Burmistrov leaves for Russia], we have learned not to depend on one large private business for our future needs. | ||
| + | Many of us who love our islands are making the sacrifice - but not all of us. | ||
| + | - LeVelle T. Henry, St. Croix</html> | ||
