If there ever was a time for Bahamians to wake up and stop eating what the politicos shovel,
It is now.
Our national fiscal position is deplorable, but the
Governments solution is to take the peoples personal finances over the cliff also.
Government assisted financial suicide.
If they can take your money, the IMF will keep lending them money to siphon off for themselves, hiring consultant after consultant only to ignore them all,
unless they agree with the IMF!
Ironic we are about to celebrate Majority Rule day,
after which the enslavement continues!

Napoleon complex?
Bran has no monopoly on that one, we have more Mini me's running around the Bahamas no matter their height! (or girth!)
They are mostly politicians too, Interesting.
Society either allows, or disallows the behavior of its members, with the Judiciary following suit.
What is broken is us. We the People.
We stand ready to take another day off, in the Name of Majority rule, when all around us lies in a state of disrepair and dis-function, and most of us have no clue about, or attach no special significance to the newly created holiday.
We lusted after self determination, but ran from the responsibilities attached thereto.
Points of national importance and significance become days of observation in a natural way,
not foisted upon us by those who would claim the battle personally as their own.
I think Carlton Francis day would have been a more appropriate day of self examination particularly for the so called leadership.
Where there is no shame, there can be no real pride.

No Customs officer I've spoken to has had any training or information either.
Seems they do not know what to tell them until they finalize it all.
July will probably bring border paralysis, via total confusion.
Our Governmental problem ever present is no logistical capability.
Edicts from on high are always mis-directed / unsupported through the rank and file in Government.

"Severe methods"? Define please.
Is the law considering going outside the law?
Realizing that things have gone far beyond the Governments control,
and is of their own doing,
what exactly is being suggested?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

All they really need to do is go back to the written law and the provisions for each and every Government department to ACT contained therein.
All these new rules and regulations will suffer from the same lack of implementation and enforcement, the lack of which is what caused their implementation in the first place.
Band-aids,and duct tape, no way to run a country.
All they succeed in doing is strangling any productivity by enabling total Government obstruction at every level, and much potential for political malice and interference.

At the end of the day, our Government administration's fiscal incompetency,
driven by the entitled hand out society, has only one place to get the revenue they need to continue their errant ways for the next few years:
Consume the wealth of the Bahamian private sector.
Keep taking productive hard earned currency worked for by others,
for their own ever increasing needs.

I'm still more curious about the $100,000 they were robbed of!
Is that the amount I read?
Crazy, wonder what that was for?
Church?
I'm in the wrong business!

Overall, an ill conceived plan,
still awash in uncertainty,
with more unintended and detrimental consequences than the intended.
This may just be what is required to sink the PLP boat forever.
The backlash will continue to the FNM when they fail to "save" us after we "flip the political switch" next time.
After all, they did all the work towards this including the commitments.
One thing is for sure,
Business as usual is history.

It is impossible to have an intelligent discourse
when the subject is born from the idiocy of Governments.
Cause and effect is inescapable, they will cause effects they cannot want.
Already economic instability is starting, as existing participants withdraw, retreat.
As for new entrants, well, hard to quantify what didn't happen.

We enjoy so many first world Goods and services via the "grey market", and yet will not demand and pressure for rights to these things Legitimately by signing and complying with copyright agreements, royalty agreements, and trade agreements as a country.
Piracy is piracy is piracy, ours just donned suits, wigs and briefcases, and swore allegiance to the queen.

The world is closing in on us, and we still believe it revolves around us, and does not affect us.
Do we really believe VAT is about increased revenue?
All the legislation amended and new?
Trade agreements?
It is about the missing and hidden paper trail, that every other jurisdiction wants to see.