Tourism is the major thing holding us togeather, and remember when you say the FMN and PLP are imbecles they came from us Bahamians not mars , surely all of them couldn,t have been that dumb and not know what they were doing ..What are you saying about us ..Sun ,sand and sea is what we got to sell.. Dude there not better ,but we are dependant on them, not them on us shopping there ,,and w/ out them coming we have no money to shop there ,,i am now old enough to be a realist and a pragmatist . i have enough of earned self esteem to accept reality w/ out it being determental to my identity ...You talk in absolutes,however i wish those 400,000 americans that visited Cuba last year would have chosen us as there tropical vacation ...

you don,t buy many cops in the ghetto in the states m,,yes i moved dope there too,,if were so special and have such an identity and not like yankees ,,how come you blame all our bad on them ,,don,t we have any identity ,,,what bout all our forefather talk and big hat wearing church going ,,so we are so weak that we copie all the bad from someone else ,,thats what your saying ??

do you realize 400,000 thousand americans visited cuba last year thru the cultural exchange program ,and our stopover visitors are down ,,,all the cubans that get to the states don,t work and suck off the tax payer ??the congress women is head of the select commitee on foriegn affairs ,,,,,,,,,,,didn,t PING have to let the DEA in ,aren,t we bending and signing FACTA,S ,,,although it feels good to puff up our chest as long as the U/S provides 80% of our revenues they the boss ,,when you were a boy and your daddy paid the bills could you tell him how to run his house ??remember when the women from the embassy got robbed they closed down getting visa for about a week ,didn,t freddy have to sign to send ninety in the middle of the night after they nearly backed up the airport to village road by putting only one customs officer on and all the tourist started complaning ,,,your right this may not piss uncle sam off ,but keep giving the finger to powerful senators and it won,t belong before the bitch slap comes ,,

Tals although anything HAI gets your waters running ,this is 2013 ,remember he lost and went back to Abaco ..funny apart from the numbers thing the only time you post is when an FNM speaks ,,,,do you think Mitchell calling other countries enemies is good ,or is it mostly to rally the base ??you know like the church uses the us against them ,,good politician know use a enemy "strawman " for deflection ..get the under educated foaming at the mouth

floridas gdp is over 700 billion ,they can survive w/ out our spending ,and since Raul Castro removed the "white card" for cubans to travel more of them are shopping there and returning home ,,,for the first time in 50 yrs theres is a direct friegth boat from tampa to cuba ,,our gdp is 11 billion ,our budget yearley is 1..2 billion w/ 700 million going to the civil service ,if we lose 15%of our U/S tourist we can not pay our civil service w/ out borrowing until our dollar is devalued ,,wait until you see crime then ,,we need the U/S 1000 times more then they need our spending in florida ,that is reality ,,

good objective post

we talk about how proud we are as Bahamians and our culture and forefathers ,but then blame the bad on the u/s ,,can,t have it both ways ,,do we have an identity and inner morals or do we follow the bad of anyone ,,its us killing and raping us ,i lived in the states for 20 yrs ,and i couldn,t bribe and buy my way through sh,,t like i did here ,,,if the u/s did influence us we just got better at crime b/c per capita our crime rate makes the u/s look like sunday school,,bro as a kid i never had a bike ,motocyle ,even a horse that wasn,t stolen ,,my sis lives in a middle class area in north carolina and her kids are teenagers and have had not one toy etc stolen ,,

i was in the police van all night in 2003 when they were beating the holy crap out of young men ,holding them punching them in the belly ,whipping them w/ tamarind switch and telling them get back over the hill ,i had money and they made offers for me to "buy out " but i wanted to get off coke and didn,t ,,man the beatens i saw at fox hill for difficult dudes were brutal ,,we use physical force and violence as conflict resolution from child rearing ,to love relationship ,to policing ,,how many guys have died in custody in the last couple years ,,we are not talking about the U/S we are talking about if detainees were beaten here ,,,,,,,,,,and something seems pretty fishy ,,plus i think Sands and Doc wouldn,t keep going w/ out proof ,,why show the proof ,let the people your opposeing dig a deeper hole ,then show it,,,,thats how politics is played ,,

i guess your younger then me and don,t remember the 80,s ,,if i told you some of the deals i brokered btw columbians and very prominent PLP,s and some of the people "church ', police etc that were on the payroll you would be shocked ,if you just want to blame moral decay on the fnm ,,go read what banker and i were blogging about on the "dandy' bishop ellis, the young preacher ping brougth up from bimini,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

back in the day they were all nice ,especially when we had something to take care of them ,,however none of us were difficult broke ass detainees trying to escape ,,I "think" Minnis has proof but will hold it until the PLPs hand picked retired judge and "esteem " clergy release their findings ,,it is a chess game now ,the U/S already knows ,they have many 'sources"