Talk:Compact of Free Association

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[edit] POV

"The freely associated states are all dependent on U.S. financial assistance to meet both government operational and capital needs." Even if its true, its poorly written, showing a superiority that isnt adequate for an Encyclopedia. LtDoc 12:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean by "superiority"? What would be a more NPOV way of putting it? --Jfruh 17:44, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map request

It is requested that a map or maps be included in this article to improve its quality.

An orientation map showing the locations of the Freely Associated States, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland would be helpful. -- Beland 16:29, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Put one on there now from the TTPI article, although it is an old one. Maybe someone could find a more up-to-date one later? That-Vela-Fella 19:23, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Compact Impact and Compact 2

"Compact Impact" means immigrants from ROP/FSM/RMI to GU/MP/HI/AS use services (education, medical, etc) thus creating a financial "impact" to those US local governments, and therefore these US islands are reimbursed by the US federal government for the "impact" caused by the "compact". These four jurisdictions, due to their proximity to the 3 FASs, have high concentrations of those populations. (Unlike CA, where Micronesian impact is negligible when compared to illegal Mexicans' impact.)

Compact Impact had been requested well before Compact 2 and granted annually by the US Congress. What happened at Compact 2 (RMI/FSM only, since Palau's Compact 1 is not expired yet) was that the GU/HI/AS congressional representatives pushed for Compact Impact reimbursements to be written into the Compact (a treaty) itself, therefore guaranteeing money for a long term. Therefore "immigration from Palau" is relevant info to explain "compact impact" despite Palau still running on Compact 1. HkCaGu 08:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)