I just got off the phone with my mom, and she said that the Resident Commissioner (an elected delegate to the House without voting rights) is selling it as a very net positive and that it will benefit the island in yuuuge positive ways. She caucuses with the republicans and is eyeing the governorship herself.
I told her that yes, it will be as beneficial as the Titanic hitting that iceberg. Neither of my parents were very amused by my comment.
In other news, there is an epidemic of 'blue flu' among the police force due to the government being unable to pay all the extra hours they have worked, and pissed off because there aren't going to be any christmas bonuses this year. Criminals are making a killing, sometimes literally.
Things may look okay from the outside but I liken it to Mt. St. Helens before it blew its top.
I told her that yes, it will be as beneficial as the Titanic hitting that iceberg. Neither of my parents were very amused by my comment.
In other news, there is an epidemic of 'blue flu' among the police force due to the government being unable to pay all the extra hours they have worked, and pissed off because there aren't going to be any christmas bonuses this year. Criminals are making a killing, sometimes literally.
Things may look okay from the outside but I liken it to Mt. St. Helens before it blew its top.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg