WE ARE ALWAYS ON THE BRINK BECAUSE WE SPEND SO MUCH. JUST BECAUSE YOU MAY HAVE EXTRA MONEY DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD SPEND IT. WE ALWAYS HAVE TO BORROW BECAUSE WE CANT DO ANY BETTER. SUCK TEET!

You seem to suffer from the same error as both parties, ESPECIALLY the FNM, who see only one side of the equation: spending. What about revenues? It is a laughably ignorant statement to say that the Bahamas "spends too much" and it displays a total lack of acquaintance to the most easily available facts.

The Bahamas spends around 19 percent of its GDP annually. That is among the lowest on earth. The regional average is 35 percent, the European average is 50 percent and the USA is 43 percent. The problem is that it only COLLECTS 17 PERCENT of GDP!!!!

Why? Because we undertax foreign investors, totally fail to tax the rich (through graduated income taxes) and do not even bother to collect the pitifully small percentage that we tax foreign landowners in the family islands (where Bahamians are, rightfully, exempt).

Instead, we pile all of our taxes on the poor and middle class, who bear a disproportionate burden of taxes on consumption (since a larger portion of their income goes to consumption). This also slows down the economy, since the poor spend more on things that keep the economy going.

In other words, we have a regressive tax system and this idiot is retarded in thinking that we should be borrowing more than simply fixing it and doing what everyone else does: PROGRESSIVE TAXES.

Damage to government assets shouldn’t be much assuming they carried insurance, lol.

So most of this borrowing to to make up for lost revenue. Lol

One thing that is certain, when you elect a government it is based on the party platform / campaign promises etc. Yet once in power the government does all sorts of things that we don’t want them to do. If they told you in advance what they would actually do, they would never get elected.

It’s no coincidence that campaigns are always fought over trivial matters , leaving the door wide open to all kinda misbehaving for whatever party gets in power.

We need recall powers , or they will force the masses to storm parliament and force change either peacefully or otherwise.

There can be nothing illegal about the people exercising their will, regardless of method; wether by democracy or for e, it’s the people’s will, so it’s intrinsically good.

If the IDB told K P Turnquest to fart he would all too quickly and most happily do so.

The bureaucrats at the IDB now have full control of the governance of our country and they are hell bent on turning the vast majority of Bahamians into debt slaves. The IDB's unabashed and disgraceful mission has along been to put our nation in debt bondage. This is achieved by putting their lending teat ("tit") to the constantly sucking lips of incompetent elected officials who are known to be susceptible to engaging in corrupt activities for their unjust enrichment, i.e. corrupt politicians who all too willing to sellout their fellow countrymen.

The IDB's lending teat ("tit") serves to fulfil the mandate set by the foreign interests who are behind the developed countries that financially back the IDB - predominantly the U.S.A. These foreign interests wish to acquire our most valuable national assets at fire sale prices, but can only do so by destabilizing our finances in order to seize and maintain control of all key aspects of our economy. And that's where the IDB comes into play. Their mission is to exploit (even encourage) the propensity of our corrupt government officials to take on unsustainable levels of debt that results in most Bahamians becoming debt slaves with no end to their indentured servitude. That's the harsh reality of what's going on here. It's the principal reason why none of our elected PLP or FNM governments have been willing to introduce serious austerity (belt-tightening) measures aimed at reducing the unsustainable costly size of our grossly over-bloated civil workforce, among other things.

Exactly right, Mudda

And no sooner will the weak and most incompetent KP Turnquest add this motherload of additional borrowing to our already unsustainable national debt, than we will see headlines in the local newspapers that read:

"National Debt Level Leaves No Option To Huge Increase in VAT"

And of course K P Turnquest will once again be telling us his hands are tied when it comes to yet another hugh increase in VAT ...... and round and round we go because he values being a member of the political elite more than he does our country's financial well-being. The same applies to Minnis. These weak, incompetent and corrupt buffoons don't give a rat's arse about turning the rest of us and our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on into debt slaves.

All too predictable 😀

And not even a peep out of K P Turnquest's mouth to say what government plans on doing to address the ever rising costs associated with the invasion of our country by overwhelming numbers of illegal Haitian aliens. Is he proposing to simply borrow more money to fund the horrific costs of accommodating these illegal Haitian aliens in our country, presumably at the urging of the IDB?

Where is the sanity in all of this? Why are we not weekly shipping hundreds and hundreds of these illegal Haitian aliens back to Haiti, recognizing that borrowing money to accommodate their education, healthcare and other needs while here in our country will never be a financially viable option.

LOL man they going to milk Dorian for a long time. Yes Dorian has caused you to borrow a lot more, but it didn't cause you to borrow. You were going to do that no matter what happened. As such it wasn't Dorian that caused you to borrow but your mismanagement of the economy and lack of balls to make hard decisions.

Heave a sigh of relief that KP - doesn't have borrow lots more - due the kind generosity foreigner comrades - who suddenly out blue - flew into colony's capital - where they held **successful fundraiser** - where **in excess** $1.5 Billion was **pledged** to support post Hurricane Dorian reconstruction efforts for the Out Islands the Abaco's and Grand Bahamaland. Can't write this, just, **can't but hope that PopoulouOrdinary - are intelligent enough - recognise - exactly what constitutes a pledged donation - and what - doesn't?