So, our leaders have been touting that if USA don’t, China will. Well, please do explain to us what the plan is. Because so far, I think we have been working on someone else’s plans and not the Palauan people’s plans.
How do we counter China now that we have the funds? What are plans to address private sector penetration and policy infiltration?
Since the pandemic, this administration has allowed our private sector to be penetrated by foreigners. This administration has strengthened foreign efforts to infiltrate our policy makers by instigating a funding war between China and USA – USA through Compact and China through the private sector and private relationships with policy makers – this is impossible to monitor. While allowing Bangladeshi and Chinese-operated stores to be the country’s largest franchise model retailer – becoming the best customer for Palau’s largest importer. Can you name Palau’s largest importer and wholesaler?
Programs now accessible to Palauans under the new compact agreement has initiated the largest out migration in history. It will soon make no sense to live in Palau. Since the pandemic, we have created no real opportunities at home and now we have enabled Palauans an easier path towards the American Dream – in America.
For an administration that says they know numbers – $890 million, accounting for inflation, is way less than a billion dollars – it’s what they said to be “unacceptable”. Moreover, all that new Compact funding is designed to fund construction heavy projects for next 20 years, which only the biggest local construction companies will be benefiting from – can you name the biggest construction company in Palau? The numbers only make sense to them securing the biggest funding source for a company.
We have to see that the new Compact has been negotiated and designed to enrich the few already rich in Palau, enable more foreign operated businesses in Palau, send more Palauans to the USA, while the USA continues to enlarge its footprint in Palau in the name of defense. This footprint is becoming relatively larger than in Guam. Someday soon we will be forced to live in areas without development and dependent on USA funded “hand-me-down” welfare programs, while sick of NCDs, addicted to food, tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. We should see that we now have created the greatest threat to Palau’s sovereignty – the marginalization and degradation of its people.
This plan, this dream, worked with native Americans, it worked with Hawaii, it worked with Guam. And now, we have permanently established the “American dream” for Palauans.
You said A kot a rechad? You said Palauan dream? This isn’t it and I didn’t vote for this, and I won’t be fooled.
Tia di sodel a Beab Ma Rekung. Sincerely,
Rekung