But the back log comprises thousands and thousands of illegal aliens and thousands and thousands of their stateless offspring, with thousands more illegally coming to our shores every year.

Our corrupt, incompetent, and elitist ruling political class seem to much prefer looking after the needs of these illegal aliens and their offspring, while simply watching us poor Bahamians wither away as a people in our own country.

Sad to say, but cruel Davis probably could not care any less about us Bahamians as his administration goes about adopting policies aimed at speeding up the Haitianization of The Bahamas.

Nothing but an intended distraction from cruel Davis's gross incompetence on so many fronts.

The corrupt, incompetent, and elitist political ruling class in our country, both of the PLP and FNM persuasion, will never ever admit that they are responsible for having bankrupted the national insurance fund. From day one they ran it like a Ponzi scheme with little or no regard for the longer-term fiduciary obligations associated with its intended social security purpose.

And now the very cruel Davis wants to squeeze even more out of the thousands of contributors to this national insurance fund over many years who are finally beginning to wake up to the fact that the benefits they were hoping to get back in their retirement years will either never be received or will be significantly reduced.

Yup, here we see the outcome of decades of unbridled greed by our very corrupt political ruling class. Yet cruel Davis will soon be calling for us to put even more of our cookies into 'his' cookie jar, all the while knowing that we will likely never get to eat any of them at the end of the day.

It's now way too late to prevent the inevitable financial collapse of the National Insurance Fund caused by the gross incompetence and greed of successive corrupt FNM and PLP administrations alike.

From its inception the administrative costs of running the National Insurance Fund have been outrageously excessive due to its grossly over-bloated headcount combined with greedy crony consultants of every kind constantly sucking on it, not to mention the heavy toll taken by outright and unchecked fraud.

And of course, the National Insurance Fund's bank accounts will continue to be wrongfully used whenever possible by successive corrupt PLP and FNM administrations as a "go to" cookie jar to make all sorts of wasteful and inappropriate investments with total disregard of the NIB's fiduciary obligations and projected liquidity needs for our aging population.

So along comes the very same people, who for decades have played a big role in the impending collapse of the National Insurance Fund, people like Davis and Gibson, trying to now convince those of us who have been making our National Insurance contributions for many years, that we are somehow responsible for its impending collapse by not contributing enough. Talk about audacious gall !!

No matter what the very cruel Davis may now say, he will very soon be seeking to have employers and employees bail-out this defunct Ponzi scheme by way of higher, in fact exorbitant, additional contributions, combined with significantly reduced retirement benefits.
But in these extraordinarily difficult times, Davis and Shameless Shane Gibson are gravely mistaken if they foolishly think blood can somehow be had from a stone.

The Bahamian people are completely tapped out like they have never been before, thanks in great part to decades of corrupt government activities of the kind Davis and Gibson are well familiar with.

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> Sir Franklyn Wilson, the FOCOL Holdings chairman, yesterday argued that the Government should reward gas station operators for their “prudent judgment” by giving them a small increase on their present 54 cent per gallon fixed margin “as soon as circumstances allow”

This greedy SOB, aka Snake, wants us, the honest hard working financially strapped taxpayers, to subsidize his insatiable greed. Snake, through the terms of his franchise agreements with the lion's share of the gas station operators, literally controls all of the key parameters that determine their profit margins.

And like the very greedy boa constrictor that he truly is, Snake tightly squeezes the gas station operators until they squeal to make sure he ends up pocketing a disproportionate share of the profits generated by their operations.

This is one member of the ruling political class who should never have been allowed to develop a de facto monopoly over our country's supply of fuel. We should all be dreading the thought of the whopping light bills coming our way this Summer thanks to Snake's insatiable greed.

Cruel Davis should be giving us a Gas Tax Holiday for the rest of this year, and the greedy Snake should ease up on his own very tight squeezing of the gas station operators he supplies fuel to at higher than necessary prices aimed at keeping their profit margins to the minimum possible.

**enough of all the hot air bs talk.**

**cruel davis should have long ago given us a desperately needed gas tax holiday through the end of this year.**

**many people are hurting badly while government's coffers are enjoying a windfall level of gasoline tax due to the high fuel prices.**

**and of course, the very greedy franky wilson, aka snake, is laughing all the way to the bank because his fuel supply monopoly has never been more profitable as he continues to tightly squeeze the profit margins of the gas station operators in order to enrich himself greatly and most unjustly.**

**hot air talk and promises from elitist elected officials and over-paid government bureaucrats is cheap. the people need action, and they need it right now!**

This time will be very different. Try as they may to get blood from a stone, the corrupt and cruel Davis and Cooper led PLP administration will surely fail in doing so. Most Bahamians are now just plain tapped out and struggling to pay for food, let alone all of their many other essential needs. The misery index for so many desperate Bahamians has never been higher. Our nation and our people are in uncharted dangerous waters.

The average cost of an electrical vehicle (4-door sedan) in the U.S. is now about $50,000. Just imagine what the landed cost of one of them would be here in The Bahamas.

By the time a middle-income Bahamian pays for the electric car, the charging station and the roof mounted solar panels for their house (assuming they own a home), their entire life's savings would have been depleted.

Meanwhile, the very disingenuous dumb arse Halkitis is trying to mislead Bahamians into thinking government does not enjoy windfall profits from its gasoline tax whenever the price of a gallon increases at the pumps.

Of course, that would only be true if government's gasoline tax was a ***fixed amount*** per gallon no matter the price of a gallon at the pumps. But the government's gasoline tax is a ***fixed rate*** based on the price per gallon at the pumps. In other words, the higher the price per gallon, the more tax the government rakes in.

Fat headed Halkitis obviously thinks most Bahamians are D - educated to the point where they would not know the difference between a ***fixed amount*** of tax per gallon no matter the price per gallon and a ***fixed rate*** of tax per gallon which means the tax collected goes up as the price per gallon increases.

**Bottom line:** You can't trust a damn thing coming out of the mouth of any of these buffoonish and most deceitful idiots; they have no shame whatsoever.