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The_Oracle says...

Taxing peter to pay (or give something to) Paul never works.
Perhaps the value in this article is the demonstration of his lack of vision or logic?
He was after all the engineer of the shutdown of our economy. If one is going to throw the switch for a shut down, one better be able to restart it!
Tax the rich excessively and you end up without the rich, leaving you with more poverty.

The_Oracle says...

It is what you get from 50 years lacking any real town planning.
And no enforcement of what planning there was.

On Sunk by record rainfall

Posted 16 May 2022, 2:44 p.m. Suggest removal

The_Oracle says...

Reducing Bahamians to what amounts to Indentured Servitude, namely servitude to Government.

The_Oracle says...

Notwithstanding the 9 different departmental directions of government one has to navigate in order to obtain occupancy and licensing, in which the Government dept's do not communicate with each other, which in turn forces an applicant to become the courier,
They are receiving funding and still complaining?
In all seriousness, I honestly question how 6 "poor black Bahamians" (her words) would ever figure the process out!

The_Oracle says...

So I got a phone call a couple weeks ago urging me to get a booster shot, Astra Zeneca....
I thought the Pfizer was taken off the table due to Complications from it?

On Vaccines due to expire at month end

Posted 13 May 2022, 4:36 p.m. Suggest removal

The_Oracle says...

What the politicos of the world did not understand is that once the engine of the world was stopped (by them, for the Pandemic) they were not the ones able to restart it.
The productivity of people made the world what it was up to 2019, the politicians are responsible for what it is today. The effects are far from over.

On Warning as container costs to double

Posted 11 May 2022, 10:02 a.m. Suggest removal

The_Oracle says...

Madoff went to prison for his Ponzi scheme.......
Call it what it is.

The_Oracle says...

Only Bahamians screw Bahamians, Foreigners only do so if a Bahamian somewhere allows it.
Think on that, the last 50 years of it.

The_Oracle says...

replacement vehicles imported to GB and Abaco were subject to Duty and VAT if exported to another island or sold. It was the first thing Brave relaxed by saying they could be exported and sold. Stupid is as stupid does.
They were warned. They chose to ignore. Ginger is PR, travels with Photographers, not intelligence.

The_Oracle says...

From the outset various ways the system would be cheated were noted, amidst the confusion of the implementation.
At one point mailboat freight was being checked before departure from G.B.
So what happened? now they're catching it at potters cay dock?
As Yoda would say, "A little slow they are"