actually the turn around in the U S economy started long before 2017 but don,t let your bias and Faux news facts get in the way ..Its been one of the longest economic growth in U S history .Under President Obama the unemployment rate went from about 9% to just over 4% and the market went from about 8 thousand to 22000 .Trumped pulled the biggest middle class tax payer paid for stimulus ever , the tax cuts for the wealthy. and is now running trillion dollar deficets in a "good " economy .The last time deficets were this high was when Bush did the tarp and Obama did the stimulus in the height of the recession . Numbers don't lie after the U S got out of the recession Obama was running half the deficits Trump is . Although the trade war w China might be needed it has basically turned the wealthy farmers into even wealthier framers w taxpayer money while the small farmers are going out of business .Facts don,t bother you ,you cut the cloth to suit your bias ,

you think our slide to mediocracy started in 2017 ,,lmao

The minister of tourism has done a good job , bringing all those cronies home that were in tourism offices all over .He has expanded our online presence and bolstered our advertising .I do agree reckoning is coming , but the top 5% are not going to share their wealth willingly .It will be the same as before they have already privatized their profits and will socialize their losses w the taxpayer bailing out the banks etc .The Bahamas and the Island I,m on is playgrounds for the very rich ,although they may whine during a recession the difference is there making less millions a year not losing homes or going hungry .Damm during the last great recession they were buying properties on this island and are now renting them for up to ten thousand a week on Arbnb

They do on the Island I,m on ,,and the alternative is the PLP ,,enough said ,, at the least w the FNM we got new roads , new airport , harbor dredge , new port , new post office , even if it is in Brents building etc etc , .In the PLPS last two terms they helped the Chinese stiff Sarkis , legalized casinos on every corner despite the people voting no , let billionaire Nygard steal crown land , and walked 500 million right out the front door of BOB to their friends ,lovers and cronies .

Funny on the family Island I live the winter resident home market is up ,,prices are up about 30% and both sales and new construction is up for the second home/winter resident market . The main marina is stuffed w high end Jupiters and Intrepids w dual and triple large outboards

Good points , well written .

and your fighting 40 years from who got their job from their MP and got they hand out and can,t be fired .If one government gets rid of them ,the next one fight to get them back .PGC big fight , non fight , w BTC to get the 2% back was nothing more than strong arm tactics to get a few of his back in high paying position ,, you cant really blame our slide to mediocracy on the last 3 years of the FNM ,,if you do your just feeding your own bias .

tourism is up ,investment is up ,new construction is up , the ratings agencies have given us a bit better marks , and no the FNM is not perfect but if they get the the new 95 million worth of generators installed and there are no big electrical problems next summer they will probably win again ...In reality the alternative is the PLP ,,enough said .. We are a young country that went to Bahamianization in the education too fast .We we could not get enough qualified Bahamian teachers so we made the College of the Bahamas to produce them .We have dropped the passing grade to 50% and are still only producing at a D average .We are ignorant , not well educated , and arrogant about it .We survive b/c of 2 things we had nothing at all to do w , beautiful beaches etc and being located very close to an affluent country to draw guest from .With majority rule comes responsibility . will we mature and become responsible ,,that is yet to be seen

Add to that all holding their hand out for "tip" to do their job ,,and if you don,t tip ,bribe , your application keeps going to the bottom of the stack

The street kills way faster than any court could if we had capital punishment and that does not deter people from commiting murder .For example if you kill a member of another gang there is a good chance they will hunt you down and kill you . If you are an armed robber and continue robbing people and businesses there is a good chance a business owner or the police in a shoot will kill you ,,that does not stop it .Do some research capital punishment does not deter murder and many countries where capital punishment is outlawed have very low murder rates and violent crime rates .