POLICY PROCESS and the real story of what governs us!

As a son of Guahan and a true life U.S. patriot (8 years US NAVY), I feel I can really understand this!  My special perspective on things should help bring light to what I experienced, noticed and don't!  The attached picture is a illustration from our text book in PA 210, and it is a cartoon of how the policy process, the way in which things get done in Government.  What does it tell us? One thing I noticed off the bat is the familiarity in our local policy process and the federal red tape directly and indirectly effecting us, and how no matter the sophistication of the governing system, the implemented measures taken by society in it's never ending pursuit of being a civilized people, self vested interest, relevant pressing issues of the times, like the 2002 response to 9/11 with the implementation and establishment of Department of Homeland Security, and the EOP (executive office of the President) order under the Reorganization Act of 1939 to lessen the strain of the emerging new world power.  The examples of drastic improvements, the much needed improvements, the inevitable force of man and life itself, throws in the curve ball, one like lobbyist, and special interest groups, who push and pull the wheels of laws and policy.  Another curve ball is the dichotomy of administration and is purpose, and politics, as it's own animal, and their ever crossing paths makes mistakes able to happen and the process gets bogged down by the struggles of neutral competence concepts.

  What makes this all so interesting is the ability to keep making the same mistakes and allowing there to be no change.  One key term and concept in our society is capitalism.  Making money verses not ripping people off, getting the chance to be right but at the expense of others, and who determines that, this is exactly the place Guam is in!  We are described in this book, as far as I can tell,  inadvertently as "LESSER" by definition because we are assigned in the pyramid scheme, we call equal government and justice, to the outer cabinet, a department of the executive branch, the department of interior, which is comprised of 11 "lesser" cabinet-level departments, Interior!  Does popular sovereignty really apply to us, as the minority of what truly belongs to CHamoru's by indigenous rights?  What really is tolerance, and is it used as a crutch!  THINK ABOUT IT!