This is like making a fire with $100 bills.
They've already proven they can't manage their finances = FRUCKING BOB!!!! now they want more money? This is their pre-election get some money so we can give all our friends who never graduated highschool here (PLP's fault as well) jobs in the ministry of finance and then they can vote for us next year.

Is this a joke? You're going to spend an absurd amount of money to try to fix your incompetence. What world is this? Who could lend someone 33 million for such a crazy plan? It's obvious that money borrowed to fix the problem will itself go missing, be squandered and just plain stollen. Which crony is going to own the shelf company that installs the "new" system that will probably be broken in two years time? These guys are unbelievable. No amount of money can make someone organised; this is a character trait, not a system, and, unfortunately, it is a character trait sorely lacking in most Bahamians. Just like BAMSI. You don't spend millions of dollars to start a farm, you get on your hands and knees and start planting seeds.

The PLP has figured out a way to borrow it's way out of debt. It is an amazing new form of alchemy that Perry is really excited about and is going to release a statement on some time in the future

Another teachable moment and 2200 laid-off employees from Baha Mar still have not received their severance payments and unemployment benefits runs out the end of the month. Wonder where I will get the $300 weekly benefit now to split between BEC, rent, food and gasoline. Cable, BTC and Carnival costume already get cut...

However, he said within “three or four” years the government expects the national debt to be “totally eliminated.”
Whaat? Did he just say that? $6+ billion eliminated? They may not share what they steal, but should share what they're smoking!

LMAO!!!

Wow, I have heard that sometimes "you must spend money to make money", but this is just crazy.

More debt begets more debt. Have they no control, borrow, borrow and borrow. This country is going to see a devaluation, this year, if they keep borrowing.

You can almost hear them thinking, "Let's see how much we can steal this time. 33 million. Nah, that's too high, someone will notice. These Bahamians are suckers, trust me. We can do it. Alright, 33 million it is you crazy SOB."

“How bad is our economy? Well I’ll give you my two cents…which used to be a dollar.” – Stephen Colbert

“The new taxes are going to put rich people in a very tough spot. Paris Hilton may have to carry her own cocaine. Trump may have to fire the guy who trims that thing on his head. Warren Buffet may have to move in with his cousin Jimmy Buffet.” – Craig Ferguson

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“According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren’t enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren’t there are needed to spend money we don’t have to create jobs that don’t exist.” – Jay Leno

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"President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk about prison reform, and to catch up with so many former congressmen." –Jimmy Fallon
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"Police in Florida have arrested a man who said he finally achieved his goal of shoplifting in all 50 states. You know what you call someone who steals from all 50 states? A congressman." –Jay Leno
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“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
― P.J. O'Rourke,

***What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

Arthur Laffer
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

Comrade PM Christie broke into his signature shuffle dance for the crowed in Bamboo Town Tuesday night. I thinks PM preparing rungs General Election bell, early.

Is PM Christie "Fired Up? Ready To Go Enough Rungs General Election Bell, Early!"

.....///https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjA2nUUsGxw

Didn't they tell us last year that VAT would reduce the national debt?

Comrade ThisIsOurs don't's you knows that's why government needs the $33 million, or how else can they hire all new workers that are needed, if you want them add up all them numbers merchants have sent into ministry of finance? Like boxes and boxes fill sheets papers numbers printed and written all over them.

YES BUT THEY LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH ! This Country is finished. I never understood how a lawyer could be the Finance Minister but both Perry and Pappa wanted to be close to the cash. This is the problem.

Monitor what? Thought we could just call it all "filling the hole".

I'm sure Quickbooks doesn't cost that much.

Porky Pig is always at the forefront when bringing hogwash to the people. Halkitis is like a pig being led to the slaughter house. And he will get slaughter come 2017. But he will always be an invaluable member of the PLP, cause he is just as crooked as the rest. But the only difference is that he has a good poker face when telling these bold lies.

Corruption is a social danger because it feeds organized crime, it drives up the cost of doing business, it denies opportunities to honest and hardworking citizens; it destroys the future.

Un F******** real

This country will end up like Greece in a few short years.

Another slush fund to pay off cronies...

No reason to call the young man a Pig. Call him anything you want. But he is a very smart young man. From Cat Island and he is not mean spirited. You can bet your last dollar. he will never call any of you ill names. He did say the deficit has been reduced. and the vat money goes into the consolidated funds. I pray that God will bless the Bahamas with more men and women like him. you do not have to like him. But respect him as a human being.

Said "Porky Pig" By the way, being smart does not mean that one is morally fit to be in his position. Halkitis is a bold faced liar and everyone know it. But of course you wouldn't know the difference, because you are probably an under cover PLP troll whose job is to manipulate any publication that is negative about the PLP. Can't put nothing pass yall PLPs

What about Halkitis tell us what he did with all the Vat money and the overage too. Halkitis is a GREEK name, and we just seen what the Greeks have done to the Greek economy. IADB has told the PLP Government that it cannot manage a complex economy and therefore will "lend" us money to do the job for us. What the IADB don't know is that when these guys don't like the results, they'll just turn it off, or skew the inputs. These people are past masters of deception and cover up.