Turnquest would have gullible voters believe a Minnis led administration would rein in government expenditures. Only the most foolish among us would believe that would ever happen. Instead, Minnis would borrow and spend like there's no tomorrow, with enough side-deals to make him and his select few cronies the new super wealthy class du jour. Symonette and D'Aguilar just can't wait to drink from the trough known as the public purse after Minnis refills it with a new round of increased government taxes, fees and borrowings! And "No" I'm not being at all cynical.

"No"?
What does your crystal ball have to say about the violence in G.B.?

If it ever got really out of hand, Christie's Chinese friends would help him suppress it.

You spout all this stuff with absolutely ZERO evidence, yet you state it as fact.

It is not fact. It is your opinion, and while you are welcome to your opinion, please remember that having an opinion does not

- make it true, or
- make you important or relevant in any way

Enjoy your day!

Harry all you need to do is listen to what's happening every day with hiring of new employees, promotions, promises to pay owed overtime, signing all kinds of contracts, all the exemptions given to Baha mar, in July there will be a service wide salary increase in the public service as per union agreement, payment of outstanding purchase orders to vendors owed e.g school vendors, the newly-released Baha Mar Heads of Agreement also commits the next administration to a massive, multi-million dollar energy and wastewater treatment infrastructure upgrade while relieving the project’s new owner, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE), of any responsibility to help finance this, The Christie administration is also ‘regularising’ 3,000 part-time public sector workers into full-time, pensionable civil servants - a move that will further add to recurrent spending and a $1.5 billion public sector pension deficit,

Thanks but in the case of @HarryWyckoff the only evidence good enough for him comes in the form a confession sworn by the culprit(s). Hope he's not holding his breath while waiting for this to happen.

Well said Harry. This Mud bampot is as annoying as Tally+Strawny

"Its easy to piss away money" says it all about the PM and the financial mismanagement of this country. The choice for the next government is starkly simple. Drastically reign in spending, reduce the bloated civil service. put a monatorium on promotions and wage hikes and start paying down the national debt. The alternative is a final downgrade, devaluation and greater poverty. And by the way PLP supporters who blindly support this government but refuse to look at the facts will suffer along with FNM and DNA. Our children face a bleak future because it is they who will suffer from these corrupt, inefficient and greedy politicians.

The US debt is expected to hit **20 TRILLION DOLLARS**before the end of 2017. Most countries around the world are saddled with huge national debts. The Bahamas is not excluded as it has its & BILLION share of national debt. Some feel that the US may never be able to pay off its debt, especially with Donald trump's plan to slash corporate taxes by more than 50% and despite the debt being reduced by 60 Billion during Trump's first 100 days in the white house (obviously some of the policies Obama left in place). Many expect the US Dollar to crash and a return to the gold standard for international trade. Smaller countries, like the Bahamas must be careful on its borrowing habits. Organizations like The World Bank and the IMF are known to come in and loan huge sums of money to countries and then use their influence in those countries to steer government policies, among other things. The president of Nigeria, one of Africa's biggest economies, recently rejected loan offers from certain loan organizations. His preference was to use the countries own resources to finance the various projects that were on the drawing board. Shortly afterwards, President Muhammadu Buhari, took mysteriously ill and died in the UK shortly after. In a small country like the Bahamas where so many of the foreign companies are exempt from a lot of taxes, the tax burden is on the backs of Bahamians and if the country becomes over leverage it will be Bahamians who will suffer.

Concur with everything except "it will be Bahamians who will suffer". Many are suffering now. If these thieves are not removed next week, thanks to their pay-outs, it will become seriously worse almost overnight. You think they are spending now? It's too terrible to think about. Bring on the Red wave! Vote them out!!!

John,

You are right on the structural adjustments the IMF and others will make on The Bahamas. And, average Bahamians are already carrying the majority of the debt load. The difference being between the US and The Bahamas is that the US can and does print it's own money to the tune that The Bahamas can't dream of.
To me, the elephant in the room is the web shops.
I have watched the millions upon millions of dollars being sucked out of this small economy. We are impoverishing ourselves with this social scourge and national addition to gambling.
We are destroying ourselves from within.
We can't blame the IMF, World Bank and IDB on this

Well put. The devastating economic and social impacts of the gaming web shops on our country and the Bahamian people cannot be emphasized enough.

The Government will not be concerned about a devaluation---All they will do is refuse to settle their debts!

You people need to understand the tricks of the PLP. They threw these promises out there because no matter what the results are on election day they will have something to rave about. If the FNM wins, then they will be placed in the hot seat and the pressure will be on them to deliver these promises on the date promised. If the FNM does not honour these promises, the PLPs will come with the "ya see if yinna did vote us then ya woulda get what was promise" syndrome. But the PLPers are very good at playing political polka and the ignorant and uninformed Bahamians get played by these games every time.

They know that the Bahamas is broke. Do they care??? Of course not! They are so greedy that they are dying to get in for another round of lavish lifestyles and instant millions, compliments of the stupid Bahamian people, who keep putting them back in power. Once the cookie jar is completely empty and the people have no more money to give via tax, then they their lovers will use all of that money they have stashed away to start a new life somewhere else in the world.