Again, what do people expect merchants to do? Run their business at a loss? We literally import everything that we consume, what are stores supposed to do if inflation is taking it's toll abroad?
Bahamians wanted to ride with Biden, so they are getting what they wanted. Here's your inflation and a free crack pipe to go with it.
Your mother should have dismembered you limb by limb and then sucked your remains out of her womb with a vacuum cleaner. Being opposed to murder of the most vulnerable is a basic human concept. Anyone with a sound conscience, religious or not, should stand in opposition to it.
Funny how all of the people I know who went to prison all come from a similar background : absent father, single mother, born out of wedlock. It is almost as if God gave us guidance on how to live for a very good reason.
These people really take Bahamians for fools, the doomsday prophets have been wrong for 2 years now. Anyone with an IQ over 60 can see through this scam.
Grocery stores are low margin businesses, they are not making a killing like so many people fantasize they do. What do people honestly expect Mr. Roberts or any other grocer to do? The primary factor behind the rise in costs is inflation, which is something completely outside of the merchant's control.
Bahamians need to wake up, all kind of perverse and sick ideologies are being pushed on in our country under the guise of "gender equality". Murdering your child has nothing to do with "gender equality".
Yes, of course, there are many ways to nickle and dime the taxpayer. Technically speaking, NIB is a roundabout form of "income tax" as well.
I have actually lived and worked abroad before coming back, and I remember vividly how excited I was with my first job's stated salary when signing the employment contract, and then being completely disappointed reading my first pay slip. It is the biggest reason I rail so hard against the numerous taxes that these governments want to impose, and against how hard they piss the money away once it is in their hands. It is a vicious cycle of piss money away, whine that we need more taxes, piss that money away, repeat. We are so blessed not to pay income tax, not pay RPT on the Family Islands as a Bahamian, and so much more. It is something that we should truly be trying to preserve for our children.
My main point was that we cannot expect our society to be any different if our people listen to nothing but that garbage. Dancehall or (c)rap music always involves one (at the least) of the following themes :
a.) Selling drugs b.) Killing someone because they stepped on my shoes or are wearing the wrong coloured shirt c.) Having sex with a million different women, spreading STDs everywhere, bringing a bunch of unwanted children into the world, and then abandoning them
I have never once heard a song about :
a.) Getting a good job b.) Staying married to one woman and raising kids in a stable home c.) Being an upstanding citizen and caring for the local community
Traditional reggae I don't mind as much because there are some good songs that promote virtuous living, but dancehall and (c)rap music promote nothing but poison. There is a saying in the software development industry that applies well here, "garbage in, garbage out". When our young people have their heads filled with nothing but this nonsense, can we really be shocked that they turn out the way that they do? I'm not, and I only expect it to get worse based off of what I hear/see.
The Biblical part of your post is another discussion, but I reiterate that telling a story/preserving a historical record is a different matter than glorifying certain behaviour. I am not sure what your particular issue with Solomon is? Maybe because of the situation surrounding David and Bathsheeba? If so, remember that Solomon found favour in the eyes of God because he asked for wisdom, and not for wealth, the death of his enemies, etc. The situation regarding Abraham and Isaac requires the context that Isaac was a miracle child that God had given Abraham in old age, and it was the fact that Abraham was not going to withhold even his miracle son from God that was considered praiseworthy. Human sacrifice is condemned in nothing but the strongest of terms in the Deuteronomic law, especially sacrifice of children to Moloch as was the custom of pagan areas in that region at the time. It is given as a key reason that the Canaanites were to be driven out of the Holy Land. Regarding Cain, we have no idea that God did not create other people in addition to Adam and Eve. Scripture certainly doesn't rule it out, and much of the primeval world is left open to different interpretation. Not much can really be defined with any certainty about that time period. I honestly don't have any sympathy for adulterers either, especially not in this day and age where the court rewards them with alimony and child support.
The Bahamas is overpopulated, there are not enough jobs to go around for everyone. The mass migration of Bahamians to Canada (which has much easier immigration procedures than the US) is a natural vent for this problem, albeit not a big enough one. There are simply not enough jobs here, so it would be beneficial to find a way to make it easier for Bahamians to find overseas work.
Salaries are indeed lower here than in the US, but something to consider is that we don't pay income tax here. What you see listed as your salary in the US or Canada is not what you are going to get paid. The government will take their cut, and depending on where you live/how much you make, it can range from anywhere to 15% - 30% for most people.
At the end of the day, both employees and employers have to work together to find common ground for everyone. Raise the wages on small businesses and watch them shut down while the few workers they do employ end up on the backs of the government (ie. taxpayer). Rather than talking about wages, developing sustainable industries should be the topic. I am sorry, it is ridiculous to expect to pay someone close to 700 a week for an unskilled service job. The problem is that there is a very limited supply of skilled/semi-skilled positions in this country, and no government has focused on creating more. Cleaning rooms and bartending are not skilled professions that can justify paying someone thousands of dollars every month, you can literally pick people off of the street and have them perform those tasks. Shut the businesses down and see how much worse things get for you with everyone on the government dole.
LastManStanding says...
Again, what do people expect merchants to do? Run their business at a loss? We literally import everything that we consume, what are stores supposed to do if inflation is taking it's toll abroad?
Bahamians wanted to ride with Biden, so they are getting what they wanted. Here's your inflation and a free crack pipe to go with it.
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LastManStanding says...
Your mother should have dismembered you limb by limb and then sucked your remains out of her womb with a vacuum cleaner. Being opposed to murder of the most vulnerable is a basic human concept. Anyone with a sound conscience, religious or not, should stand in opposition to it.
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LastManStanding says...
Funny how all of the people I know who went to prison all come from a similar background : absent father, single mother, born out of wedlock. It is almost as if God gave us guidance on how to live for a very good reason.
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LastManStanding says...
These people really take Bahamians for fools, the doomsday prophets have been wrong for 2 years now. Anyone with an IQ over 60 can see through this scam.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi…
Peppridge Farm remembers the 2.2 million Americans that were supposed to be dead by now.
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LastManStanding says...
Grocery stores are low margin businesses, they are not making a killing like so many people fantasize they do. What do people honestly expect Mr. Roberts or any other grocer to do? The primary factor behind the rise in costs is inflation, which is something completely outside of the merchant's control.
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LastManStanding says...
Bahamians need to wake up, all kind of perverse and sick ideologies are being pushed on in our country under the guise of "gender equality". Murdering your child has nothing to do with "gender equality".
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LastManStanding says...
Yes, of course, there are many ways to nickle and dime the taxpayer. Technically speaking, NIB is a roundabout form of "income tax" as well.
I have actually lived and worked abroad before coming back, and I remember vividly how excited I was with my first job's stated salary when signing the employment contract, and then being completely disappointed reading my first pay slip. It is the biggest reason I rail so hard against the numerous taxes that these governments want to impose, and against how hard they piss the money away once it is in their hands. It is a vicious cycle of piss money away, whine that we need more taxes, piss that money away, repeat. We are so blessed not to pay income tax, not pay RPT on the Family Islands as a Bahamian, and so much more. It is something that we should truly be trying to preserve for our children.
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LastManStanding says...
My main point was that we cannot expect our society to be any different if our people listen to nothing but that garbage. Dancehall or (c)rap music always involves one (at the least) of the following themes :
a.) Selling drugs
b.) Killing someone because they stepped on my shoes or are wearing the wrong coloured shirt
c.) Having sex with a million different women, spreading STDs everywhere, bringing a bunch of unwanted children into the world, and then abandoning them
I have never once heard a song about :
a.) Getting a good job
b.) Staying married to one woman and raising kids in a stable home
c.) Being an upstanding citizen and caring for the local community
Traditional reggae I don't mind as much because there are some good songs that promote virtuous living, but dancehall and (c)rap music promote nothing but poison. There is a saying in the software development industry that applies well here, "garbage in, garbage out". When our young people have their heads filled with nothing but this nonsense, can we really be shocked that they turn out the way that they do? I'm not, and I only expect it to get worse based off of what I hear/see.
The Biblical part of your post is another discussion, but I reiterate that telling a story/preserving a historical record is a different matter than glorifying certain behaviour. I am not sure what your particular issue with Solomon is? Maybe because of the situation surrounding David and Bathsheeba? If so, remember that Solomon found favour in the eyes of God because he asked for wisdom, and not for wealth, the death of his enemies, etc. The situation regarding Abraham and Isaac requires the context that Isaac was a miracle child that God had given Abraham in old age, and it was the fact that Abraham was not going to withhold even his miracle son from God that was considered praiseworthy. Human sacrifice is condemned in nothing but the strongest of terms in the Deuteronomic law, especially sacrifice of children to Moloch as was the custom of pagan areas in that region at the time. It is given as a key reason that the Canaanites were to be driven out of the Holy Land. Regarding Cain, we have no idea that God did not create other people in addition to Adam and Eve. Scripture certainly doesn't rule it out, and much of the primeval world is left open to different interpretation. Not much can really be defined with any certainty about that time period. I honestly don't have any sympathy for adulterers either, especially not in this day and age where the court rewards them with alimony and child support.
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LastManStanding says...
How is having the Ministry of Health make these kinds of decisions constitutionally acceptable?
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LastManStanding says...
The Bahamas is overpopulated, there are not enough jobs to go around for everyone. The mass migration of Bahamians to Canada (which has much easier immigration procedures than the US) is a natural vent for this problem, albeit not a big enough one. There are simply not enough jobs here, so it would be beneficial to find a way to make it easier for Bahamians to find overseas work.
Salaries are indeed lower here than in the US, but something to consider is that we don't pay income tax here. What you see listed as your salary in the US or Canada is not what you are going to get paid. The government will take their cut, and depending on where you live/how much you make, it can range from anywhere to 15% - 30% for most people.
At the end of the day, both employees and employers have to work together to find common ground for everyone. Raise the wages on small businesses and watch them shut down while the few workers they do employ end up on the backs of the government (ie. taxpayer). Rather than talking about wages, developing sustainable industries should be the topic. I am sorry, it is ridiculous to expect to pay someone close to 700 a week for an unskilled service job. The problem is that there is a very limited supply of skilled/semi-skilled positions in this country, and no government has focused on creating more. Cleaning rooms and bartending are not skilled professions that can justify paying someone thousands of dollars every month, you can literally pick people off of the street and have them perform those tasks. Shut the businesses down and see how much worse things get for you with everyone on the government dole.
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