Samoa: smoke and mirrors

Unfortunately, bright lights and street lights, tons of cheap cars, cheap chemical loaded chicken thighs, cell phone accessibility, cheap fashions etc from China & huge ghostly government funded buildings & structures, have been seen by many, even expatriates, as signs of a prosperous and progressive Samoa. WRONG! These are merely facades to betray and conceal the real state of affairs in Samoa where the majority poor are poorer & the few rich get richer. The concerted efforts by governmental evil dictate to camouflage poverty and the pain and suffering of the majority in such a way have effectively fooled the beholders from the tiny village child to the President of the United Nations. Yet the cries of the real victims of a corrupt government, those living under its yoke, are easily silenced by obnoxious criticism from Tuilaepa or just inaudible whimpers on the pages of the Observer, seen but not heard.