Parliament is sovereign. Meaning that no referendum binds it or ties it. As simple as that. That has always been the case, nothing new about it and everyone who voted in the referendum knew it. Don't like the way your MP votes in Parliament? Change him at the next election.
Absolutely. Local beer is brewed in MINUTE quantities (basically rounding errors) compared to US beer. No economies of scale. And one of the largest costs is energy. Where on this planet are energy costs higher than on this rock?
Let's face it. When has it been "good" in the Bahamas? When we were breaking US laws. Piracy. Prohibition. Cocaine. Let us face our reality. Our reality is that we are smugglers. That is our competitive advantage. The only one we have. The only one we have ever had.
Now, these poor Haitians, they don't want to come to the Bahamas. There is no Haitian dreaming of escaping to the Bahamas. We all know where they REALLY want to go. We are just a stepping stone to their dream land. Great. Let us marry our competitive advantage to their dreams.
Let's organize their mass migration to the US and charge for it. We send our RBDF boats to pick them up by the tens of thousands, transport them to some "distribution camp" on, say, Andros, and from there by small fast boat to the US. Let's charge them $5,000 a head. That is $55bn before Haiti turns into a desert. At the rate they multiply, probably a whole lot more.
Agreed. And all of it...stems from ignorance, which is the consequence of no education. Or Bahamian state education. Which is pretty much the same thing.
If "uneducated, illiterate, innumerate, credulous conspiracy theorists with less than 2 brain cells" were an item in demand, the Bahamas would be a bigger exporter than China.
I phoned them up not 3 months ago to have my generator fixed: "Can you come today?" "No, you have to come here, open an account, put down a deposit of $400. Then we will fix an appointment. It will be at least 2 weeks."
"So, I have to drive 15 miles to Downtown? Can I not give you my credit card over the phone?" " No. And we close for lunch now." Put the phone down, found a private guy who was here in an hour. Took PayPal payment.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, Taylor Industries. Get with it or die.
OldFort2012 says...
Pray tell, where is the comment about race? I read the posts 3 times and I don't see any?
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OldFort2012 says...
There is only one solution for that: education. And that takes a generation. Or two.
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OldFort2012 says...
Parliament is sovereign. Meaning that no referendum binds it or ties it. As simple as that. That has always been the case, nothing new about it and everyone who voted in the referendum knew it.
Don't like the way your MP votes in Parliament? Change him at the next election.
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OldFort2012 says...
Absolutely. Local beer is brewed in MINUTE quantities (basically rounding errors) compared to US beer. No economies of scale. And one of the largest costs is energy. Where on this planet are energy costs higher than on this rock?
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OldFort2012 says...
Let's face it. When has it been "good" in the Bahamas? When we were breaking US laws. Piracy. Prohibition. Cocaine. Let us face our reality. Our reality is that we are smugglers. That is our competitive advantage. The only one we have. The only one we have ever had.
Now, these poor Haitians, they don't want to come to the Bahamas. There is no Haitian dreaming of escaping to the Bahamas. We all know where they REALLY want to go. We are just a stepping stone to their dream land. Great. Let us marry our competitive advantage to their dreams.
Let's organize their mass migration to the US and charge for it. We send our RBDF boats to pick them up by the tens of thousands, transport them to some "distribution camp" on, say, Andros, and from there by small fast boat to the US. Let's charge them $5,000 a head. That is $55bn before Haiti turns into a desert. At the rate they multiply, probably a whole lot more.
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OldFort2012 says...
Agreed. And all of it...stems from ignorance, which is the consequence of no education. Or Bahamian state education. Which is pretty much the same thing.
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OldFort2012 says...
If "uneducated, illiterate, innumerate, credulous conspiracy theorists with less than 2 brain cells" were an item in demand, the Bahamas would be a bigger exporter than China.
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OldFort2012 says...
The uneducated and ignorant cannot be truly free. They can just be told they are free.
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OldFort2012 says...
They do. But they go to jail for it. While in the Bahamas you get promoted to the highest levels of Government. Small difference.
On UK wifebeater ‘hiding’ in Bahamas
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OldFort2012 says...
I phoned them up not 3 months ago to have my generator fixed:
"Can you come today?"
"No, you have to come here, open an account, put down a deposit of $400. Then we will fix an appointment. It will be at least 2 weeks."
"So, I have to drive 15 miles to Downtown? Can I not give you my credit card over the phone?"
" No. And we close for lunch now."
Put the phone down, found a private guy who was here in an hour. Took PayPal payment.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, Taylor Industries. Get with it or die.
On Taylor Industries: Insolvency forces 40 staff redundancies
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