It's amazing how it's not even a conspiracy theory that the government of the Netherlands handed a hefty secret document to our prime minister, asked the government to agree to the terms by friday, and is banning anyone from knowing the contents. Anyone including Parliament.
As I understood, this is well within their powers and it is legal.
What they have to agree to, we have heard basically that there will be an 'entity' of NL who will take over Aruba's finances, education and justice.
It amazes me every time our PM says she was surprised by things, because we could've told her this was a long way coming.
I'm just a citizen and I have to say, I'm not even mad? NL is saying they're pissed because our money was so mismanaged that we were already drowning in debt before the pandemic.I'm also quite pissed about that. And because our legal system is a joke. Again, I agree, and seeing how there were protests last friday about this very issue, it seems most of us agree. I can't say all the rumors I've heard but when you hear the level of corruption on this island, my people...
Why do we have the director of finances saying that our country's state is 'espantoso' (dreadful)? Why do we have the specialists alerting us that there is no ICU rooms at the hospital? I can't be mad that NL is mad about these things. In fact, we should've kicked up a stink and taken over before we even gave them the chance.
But we didn't. And now we have to move on to the next stage. I've seen people on social media saying that we're gonna be sorry when it's hard for an Aruban to get a good job. It's already hard for every Aruban who is not a 'friend and family' to get the top level jobs and positions. What do I care which privileged group gets the benefits. It's still just a privileged group taking everything and leaching off the rest of us.
I get so mad when I hear how much money is spent in government contracts. I always wonder if people really don't realize that it's -our- money. Like these people are legit telling us they can't pay our own pensions and healthcare, with our own money, but they can afford to give themselves enormous salaries, benefits, businesses, bonuses. Legal fees.
We, the people of Aruba, should be the ones spending our hard earned money. Not them. And not their friends and family.
So why should we care about this supposed 'autonomy' that 'Aruba' would be losing? It's just the political dynasties, the corrupt 'bussinessmen', the mafia, who are losing their autonomy. For the rest of us nothing is going to change just because NL installs an entity. Our government might make decisions in our name but not in our interest.
We have to get rid of them all. But like my sister says, we can't go into this battle hurt and angry. We can't go with resentment, with fear, or ignorance. We have to go from a position of love.
