Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Today's Marianas Variety(on-line version), Gina Tabonares, reports that:" the abandoned vehicle program that paved the way for the successful eradication of decaying and “eyesore” cars on island will be re-launched by Gov. Felix P. Camacho on Thursday. The project, which was launched in April in two villages, was culminated with the shipment of seven million pounds of scrap metals of almost 3,500 collected cars. The revived program will be an island-wide project and will involve all mayors to coordinate with the Department of Public Works in collecting abandoned vehicles, tires, white goods and batteries throughout the island. BKA-KOKU Recycling Co, the private company that collceted the abandoned vehicles last year, was also tapped by the government to work with another private firm, the Huamei Enterprises Guam Inc. BKA-KOKU was the primary contractor that managed the collection and shipment of the scrap metals to an off-island company that is interested in recycling metal waste. "
The AG tried to get the law behind him to get rid of the cars, threatening jail time for the owners that abandoned their cars. DPW tried to get on the bandwagon to help. Then this company(I wonder who the owners are and how they 'play' into this priority) Anyway, all of a sudden, this longtime problem has made it to the top of the list....stepping over problems at the public school system, the hospital problems, retirement fund, state of delapidated schools, lack of certified school teachers, etc........wow, our tourists will think it's a clean island but while they're thinking that, we'll be raising dumb kids because our teachers aren't qualified, our hospitals aren't properly supplied...et cetera, et cetera.
It's clearly a 'photo op' and a good thing and if the money comes from Uncle Sam and Uncle S. is paying for the clean up, then let's just say that it's a good time to use the funds....let's not make a big deal that all of a sudden our government is going into a frenzy of beautifying the island when at the same time we're bulldozing restrooms because we have no idea how to keep them clean!
What is the real truth to why we're all of a sudden getting rid of these abandoned cars and who the hell are behind these two companies that got the bids and where are they going to stack the cars after they've picked them up......?