*Tesla

Tells is worth $48 billion Ford is valued at $45 billion but guess what Waymo, Googles self driving car company is expected to be valued at $70 billion in the near future..

So Moody's has downgraded China's credit rating. From stable to a negative rating. China's economy is expected to decline over the next few years. So the economic struggle is not exclusive to the Bahamas.

@concernedcitizen. Go do your research before you try to talk to me ok. The college degree requirement was a prelude to their automation efforts. In fact it was the excuse to terminate factory workers. But they took it even further by taking the jobs overseas, dummy. They brought their finish product back into the US with little or no border taxes. And see what it did to the American economy? But look around the Bahamas... while the big 3 continued to churn out expensive luxury cars, Japan started making fuel efficient, economical and affordable cars. Cars that cost less than $1,000 in Japan. So the Bahamas and the Caribbean and South America ditched American cars for Japanese ones. And Americans who are purchasing luxury cars are moving towards the automated, driverless or driver assisted vehicles. A technology the big 3 is lagging on. So Tesler, an automobile company, that had never made a profit in its history, is about to surpass at least one on the big 3 car companies in market share. Yes I makes things up.

@oldfort toilet paper is made here and by more than one company. Beds are made here and so are pillows. This country had one of the best farms that produced beef and chicken and eggs and ice cream and milk. Million$ in lobster and scale fish are exported We allow the foreigners to come here and tief our salt and aragonite rather than making them pay a proper price for these commodities and create employment by refining and processing them here. We brought in Chinese workers, some of whom were prisoners, to do shoddy construction work, while Bahamians sit and watch, unemployed. Beers and Liquor are made here and exported around the world, but guess what? Little or no taxes are collected. The claim is if they pay Bahamas export taxes they will not be able to compete internationally. So while Bahamians pay $44 for a case of Kalik, that same case of beer sells in Miami for $36.00 or London for $34.00. The cruise ships come here and while they want to leave their garbage and their sewerage here, they purchase nothing locally. Now many of them are moving their ports off shore to avoid hiring locals or supporting local businesses. Go to Miami but stay on the plane.

The problem with young Bahamian men is they will not let anyone intimidate or emasculate them. If they are not connecting with you on a level where they have your confidence they will not work for you. And I have worked for companies that bring workers in as tourists. So don't tell me many, many foreigners do not make money in the Bahamas. Many are raping this country. Go and hang out at any marina on any given weekend and see the Hundreds of Thousands of dollars of seafood Tuna Makersl, lobster grouper crab that are taken out of this country each week and Bahamians does not get a dollar for it. Tuna and maker all valuing thousands of dollars each and the persons who take them don't even want to pay for a cruising permit or purchase a can of soda in the Bahamas. Theft on the high seas!

Debbie and BMW you (maybe one and the same) are talking bull$hit! Where are the unemployable people in the Bahamas? The working class in any country is usually the largest class. Do you know how this country got in the problem it is in today? When under the Pindling government many persons were encouraged to leave the Family Islands and to come to New Providence and to Freeport and to work in the hotels. And so they left their traditional farming and fishing jobs to work in the "great houses " but many soon found they didn't fit in. Many found they were not refined enough to work in the great houses and others felt they did not like the great houses. They did not want to work in that much of a controlled environment. So they went back to the 'fields' but not back to the Family Islands. And since they did not find no jobs in the fields they turned to crime and to drugs. And so not even today we have these Bahamian-hating foreigners coming here to the Bahamas spreading their lies and propaganda that Bahamians are dumb, and lazy and criminals and violent and unemployable. And they use this strategy to bring in their own immigrants and put them to work, while Bahamians sit on the streets unemployed. Unemployed but expected to bear much of the tax burden and to endure the high cost of living. The high cost of living that is driven by foreigners who come here and don't bare their fair share of the tax burden but export every dollar they make back home to their homelands. This Bahamian government needs to take the lead of Donald Trump. Make Bahamas for Bahamians first. And deport not only the Haitians and Jamaican illegals. But those foreigners who come here on Tourists visas and stay behind the gates, or ion hotel rooms or in condos on Paradise Island and engaged in illegal employment. And some quasi companies of the government engage these people. As consultants. As accountants, as technicians and even as managers.

And these type shootings do not bode well for the police shooters either. They go through many months, years even of battling with their conscience. Some turn to drugs and alcohol and others beat the battle with their conscience and willing to hit their next target.

There should be concern not only about the recent number of police involved shootings but also about the numbers of persons willing to challenge the police and engage in high speed chases and even shoot outs. What has led to this? Is it because recent crackdowns have caught criminals off guard with no option but to try escape when caught up, or has the high powered rifle-toting criminals become more bold and brazen and more willing to confront and challenge law enforcement officers. In the most recent incident at least one of the four suspects who challenged police was a 15 year old school boy. Apparently he and his cohorts were armed and robbed a local store of cigarettes and cigars. The incident ended with the 15 y/o losing his life at the hands of police. Many are still having a hard time making sense of this incident.

The biggest problem Donald Trump faces in his campaign to Make America Great Again ", campaign is to find workers for the companies that want to move their factories back to the US and to, at the same time, find workers to rebuild the infrastructures of America. Trump took over an economy with less than 5% unemployment, but not only that legal citizens had quality jobs so much so that illegal immigrants could to the US and find two or three jobs to n some states. This was caused by policies of manufacturing companies , to ncluding the 'Big Three' car companies as far back as the year 2000. These companies started requiring their factory workers to have college degrees. So families who had worked for Ford and GM and Chrysler for many generations found they were no longer employable at those companies. So they , some of them, decided to send their children to college. Those who couldn't afford had their children work at fast food restaurants and convenience stores. Others joined gangs and many died young or went to prison. In the main time companies including the Big 3 decided to take their operations overseas: to China, to Japan, to Mexico and to other countries around the world. They didn't realize that the hundreds of thousands of workers they displaced in America were also their biggest customers. So as American companies turned abroad for their operations, so did the American consumer. And so nothing is made in America anymore. At least one of the big 3 car companies is in financial trouble again. So much so that Ford fired its CEO in the wake of slumping sales. The reason for the falloff uncertain. But one thing is for sure. Americans are no longer shy to drive Japanese vehicles, especially in these times of high gas prices and the wide selection of fuel efficient Japanese cars. The generation of factory workers who decided to go on and get a college education also decided they did not want to return to the factory. At least not to work on the assembly line. And since it was the American factory that gave them the shaft, they find no guilt in not buying American.