Thank You HRPP... sent to the Observer last year...

This was one of my letters to the editor last year concerning the many promises from the HRPP before the elections earlier this year. 

Thank You HRPP

To the Human Rights Protection Party or the HRPP, thank you for all that you have done for the betterment and development of our nation. Thank you for all the money that you have managed to borrow from the international financial institutions for Samoa’s supposed development. Thank you for increasing the amount of foreign debt that my and the future generation(s) will have to pay off. Thank you for that burden that our forefathers never dreamed of placing on their children. Thank you also for selling our customary lands and our heritage along with it. Thank you for the many promises of free primary education that has yet to come to fruition. Thank you for the wonderful and grand Government buildings that continue to be erected around Upolu that become a good home for muck, mould and moss within 3 months. I guess that’s a good way of saving the environment. Thank you for these buildings that have costs millions; millions that could have gone into the renovation of our national hospitals and also towards the improvement of our education system in the past ten years; two vital sectors of any country’s economy. Thank you for the grand equipment given to our doctors to care and tend to our sick. The x-ray machine from the 1950s, the gurney’s that still have the previous patients blood on them, the antibiotics that always run out, the second rate wages/salaries you pay our hard working health professionals (doctors AND nurses) and also to our teachers, and the beautiful bathroom services available at the TTMH. Thank you for the increasing cost of living that has created widespread poverty… poverty of opportunity. Thank you for taking away from the futures of the kids who sell goods on the streets because they are forced to be there to financially provide for their families. Thank you so much for allowing our future generations to become uneducated and for many, turning them into criminals!

Thank you for taking most of the tsunami aid relief and saving it for another future disaster. Thank you to our PM for stating on international television that the pain and suffering, the death and heartache, the ongoing struggle for survival caused by the tsunami is no longer “newsworthy”. Thank you for allowing foreign Governments to do your job by providing millions of dollars to rebuild the devastated areas of our tsunami ravaged South East Coast. Thank you for allowing the families affected by the tsunami to show the world their resilience and the true spirit of the Samoan, by HARDLY assisting them with rebuilding their lives and their livelihoods. Thank you for all the wonderful things you continue to do and the promises you continue to break. It is such a joy to live under the Government that spurns the dictatorial rule of Com. Bainimarama in Fiji when we are ourselves belittled and publically ridiculed on national television for even questioning any of Governments initiatives. My gosh, aren’t we all so lucky to live under a one party state? A dictatorial Government not of the sword but of the pen and the tala. Thank you HRPP, for all the non – wealth you have generated for our people that continue to migrate overseas in search for a better life and future for their families. Thank you for the opportunities you have given criminals to better themselves by allowing them to continue on as Government Ministers and for some convicted former public servants to be appointed to Government Boards simply because he is married to a Government Minister. We are a land of the free and equal opportunity for all those that have committed a crime. Gosh, aren’t we lucky? We must be thankful because only in Samoa can you be a Government Minister and keep your post even though you have been charged and convicted of negligent driving causing damage to other people’s vehicles not in one but TWO accidents. Thank you HRPP for allowing our Constitution to become as sacred as a roll of tumama toilet paper with all your constant amendments to it! Thank you for appointing such worthy and honest public servants into posts of authority who now have an easier way of making a quick buck by not reimbursing our Ministry of Finance with money that was supposed to be given back to the Government… basically to US, the taxpayers. There is so much more to be thankful for but for now I shall leave it at this……. Soifua ma ia manuia,