Let me guess, " The Toughest Economic Times" has only emerged in The Bahamas since May 7th.

he needs to clip 'Fly Away Fred's' wings then,

or at least make his boy toy fly coach!

FREDDIE DON PLAY ,HES A DASHING WORLD WIDE TRAVELLER AND YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GOING TO BRAZIL TO SOLVE GOBAL WARMING ,,YOU NEED ALL THAT ROOM IN FIRST CLASS TO WORK ,,THE FUNNIEST THING THEY DON,T GIVE A SH###T ONCE THEY GOT BACK IN POWER THEY THREW A NANNY NANNY BOO BOO AT THE PEOPLE AND SAID LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL

THERE WE GO WITH THE FARMING AGAIN ,,YOU TRY AND GET THEM SWEET SMELLING BOYS COMING OUT OF SCHOOL TO GO FARM ,,AND ON FISHERIES ,,I,M A FISHERMAN ,THERES NOT FISH OUT THERE LIKE BEFORE ,AND YOU CAN,T TAKE DUDES OFF THE LAND AND MAKE THEM SEAMEN ,,THE SEA GOT TO BE IN YOUR BLOOD

Use the criminals for farming.

GOOD IDEA !!!!!!!!!!!

Great idea. But sadly we will need to be a nation with non-partisan vision in order to make something as obvious as this a reality.

Oh boy Oh boy not even sure where to start so I'll be brief. We are in a crisis because our main industry is tourism so why invest MORE into that industry? It will not work, we may be the closest to Florida but that doesn't mean much when American tourist aren't spending money. Why on earth would you spend money we can't afford to spend on OTHER people besides ourselves? Not like everyone lives in tourists areas or works in that industry, we have to expand our portfolio, and CUT spending. How do you expect to "balance" the budget by spending majority of the money on tourism which everyone isn't going to do, and no way going to provide enough jobs to keep the quality of life up. What about the other islands? What are they going to do? Tourism isn't exactly their main focus. Just leaving them out to hang? Agriculture and fisheries must be dedicated to tourism? WHY? Why not have them farm and catch fish to be sold within the country and have a certain percentage exported to Florida? (since we are so close) and there is a HUGE market for fish and produce in South Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, etc. I really don't know what Perry is thinking.....It has been proven Tourism is not a reliable source of main income, and when the American economy collapses again (which it will always does) then what? We have no backup because we blew it all on tourism. Point is expand the portfolio, cut government spending, and establish our other industries to be more prominent.
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Because Jason, those are all obvious solutions and there is no glory in the obvious. We prefer to be donkeys running around the same bush over and over again, looking for handouts. If Sir Stafford Sands and Sir Lynden said that tourism is the Bahamas' priority then nothing can change. We are forever bound to look to the rich, white foreigner for our survival.

I AM A FISHERMAN ,THERE IS NOT SOME GREAT ABUNDANCE OF FISH OUT THERE ,,WE HAVE A SUBSTAINABLE FISHERIES IF WE DON,T OVERBURDEN IT ,,AS FOR THE HUGE MARKET FOR PRODUCE IN FLORIDA ETC ,,THEY GROW THERE OWN , A QUATER OF FLORIDA IS AGRICULTURE ,,PLUS YOU CAN,T MAKE SEAMEN IT HAS TO BE IN THEIR BLOOD ,,,

The world economy's bottom fell out in 2008! We're just now honestly feeling the effect of it...tell Perry to tell us something we DON'T know! After blaming Hubey Ingraham for the state of the world's affair's, he (Perry) wants to come to us with his great revelation! Dawg, we don't want to hear what we already know...stop makin' ya beautiful speeches and hurry put in place legislation that will make it much easier for the private sector to create employment!

Prior to May 7, Mr. Ingraham ran the Bahamian economy thru the muck. After May 7, the global recession ran the Bahamian economy thru the muck. Mr. Christie really irks my nerves, becuz if HIS party was unable to take advantage of the manyyyyy opportunities available to them during their last term in office while the economy was booooming, then how dare they bash Mr. Ingraham's administration for doing the best that they could whilst the financial systems around the world were collapsing??!! Give me a break...if they were busy analyzing what was goin on, and formulating strategies to pull our economy thru these rough times as opposed to run around yapppin at the mouth, then their 100 day plan would've been more of a REALITY.............. too much lawyers runnin this country. We need some economists!!!!!!!!!!!