The young ones should watch carefully and see the type of country our so called leaders are running. We can weave history and spin things all we want but reality doesn't lie.

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<li><p align="justify" style="border-left:1px solid;color:gray;padding-left:10px;">If someone is accused of wrong doing in this country allow natural justice to take its course.</p></li>
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<p align="left">The way you react is somewhat amusing, calm down, you’re the most excited commenter here. It’s already in the hands of the court, and it’s quite possible it won’t stand up anyway. In addition, purporting the false dichotomy of this being a Bacon vs Nygard issue just dumbs everything down, as a quick read through of the material insists that this goes far beyond binary thinking.
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It’s really sad.

Yes it could very well take that direction and spin. By the looks of it Brave has been pegged as the sole sacrifice destined to hang on his political cross and take everyone’s sins away. This story might not even be that big as the PLP are experts in scandal management. We’ll see how this one plays out Tal.

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<li><p align="justify" style="border-left:1px solid;color:gray;padding-left:10px;">Why do none of these reports come as a surprise?
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<p align="left">I know right. They say that truth is stranger than fiction but this is the status quo really. I don’t keep up with the Nygard vs Bacon nonsense but this snippet from the first video isn’t surprising...
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peter nygard: i can win this <a title="fuckin'" ><span style="color:gray;background-color:gray;">fuckin'</span></a> election.<br>

BOBO: Mm? <br>

peter nygard: i could win the election. <br>

TOGGI: Yeah. See, what Brave told us, is that we have to get your back because you’s
the sponsor and we’s the muscle, you understand? <br>

peter nygard: Yeah <br>

toggie: So that's what Brave tell us, so if these guys <a title="fuck" ><span style="color:gray;background-color:gray;">fuck</span></a> with you, chief, I will <a title="fuckin'" ><span style="color:gray;background-color:gray;">fuckin'</span></a>
deal with them, trust me. I don't care what the consequences is, I will deal with them, you
understand? Because you have our back and you have Brave back, I know Brave is the
man for us, right? For everybody.</p></li>
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<li><p align="justify" style="border-left:1px solid;color:gray;padding-left:10px;">Basically the PLP are celebrating over taxing us...</p></li>
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<p align="left">Successive governments have always been able to what was done here in this budget without VAT. The fact that VAT was necessary to pull this off just illustrates how bad the economy has become.</p>

<p align="left">If we assume a 0.93% GDP growth rate this year, which is my go to conservative value of 2014, we could estimate the GDP at around 8.67 billion. That means that we would have a current deficit of about 1.6% of that GDP according to this budget’s estimate. GDP growth isn’t likely to change in my opinion.</p>

<p align="left">I often like to tell my friends that the government budget correlates with the election cycle, and we borrow more and more on each cycle as a trend. The million dollar question is can they maintain this? This is why I believe they initially went for 15% VAT because 7.5% can’t quite do the job.</p>

<a><img src="http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/charts/…" width="100%" height="100% border="0" alt="."></a>

We still don't like Fred though. :)

Is this really newsworthy?

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<li><p align="justify" style="border-left:1px solid;color:gray;padding-left:10px;">Bahamians are not Americans Mr McWeeney and we need not do everything that Americans do. Get use to it!</p></li>
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<p align="left">Finally someone said it, the dismal failure of this referendum could be boiled down to this one crucial point. Bahamians are not Americans. The way they went about this referendum was all wrong and they know it. The PLP’s track record doesn’t help either.</p>

<p align="left">Education campaigns are quite the double edged sword. Any inking as to how people should vote, or what they should do doesn't really turn out well in my opinion. Any implications that the general populace is too uneducated or uninformed to make a decision isn’t always a nice way to start either.</p>

<p align="left">I always find it amusing when words like misogyny are thrown around here, as if this is America where it is a necessity to frame things as some pointless war between the genders. Women make up the majority of the electorate.</p>

<p align="left">But knowing this government, should the referendum ultimately turn on its head, as with the gaming referendum, there may be a way of implementing it anyhow through some other legal means. Many international implications are depending on this referendum.</p>

Well if a reaction of this magnitude is considered creeping, I look forward to the moment when Bahamians start to walk and then run, it looks promising.