by Rick Lowe
I’ve lectured to my son since he was old enough to understand about the importance of family and the sacred trust of rearing children. However, when he was 17 he had a child out of wedlock.
We had a serious heart to heart and his mother and me (and I) agreed to take him and his child in but let him know that if it happened again they would no longer be welcome in our house.
Well can you guess what happened?
Right. He did it again.
And now I’ve come this route to ask for some money to help him set up his apartment and provide some spending money for him until he can find a job.
Who would like to divi up 50% of what’s in their wallet to help the cause?
Nobody? I thought that would be your response.
Yet, we encourage the government to dip into our wallets for unemployment insurance, after we already pay mandated severance pay to terminate an employee.
Go figure!
By the way, this was just a thought experiment. That never happened with my son, thankfully.
This has gotten to the point where it is out of hand.Mr.Prime Minister, please stop this crap. This is is ridiculous. I would like for these Politicians to look at this from a business point of view.
Politicians will never see anything from a business perspective because they are not business minded but control minded, and they pander to different motivations and needs.
An upturned palm gets them excited as it gives them self worth, but they get us to pay for their feel good.
A few however are aware just how much they need us to keep functioning and producing and need us to retain that which motivates us.
This is why they do not outright nationalize us unless they are really in a panic, but eat away at us bit by bit.
They know nothing about the straw that broke the Camels back, as they have never carried a true load.
You cannot mandate performance however, nor can you mandate loyalty, nor success.
These are earned, along with respect.
From the perspective of your analolgy with your son,
to be capable of pride, one must recognise shame.
To be good, one must recognise evil.
To be fair, one must recognise the unfair.
Ect ect.
I think our sons have been taught well. It is no guarantee, but gives them a fighting chance, to stand on their own two feet and earn respect.
Earn, not command.
To think for himself is the greatest capability I can hope he develops.
You don’t think that way, Rick because your parents never brought you up to believe, as so many Bahamians believe, that the Government’s job is to be your Nanny. Of course most politicians want the people to believe that because they love the control.
We are not a socialist country but our Goverment is trying very hard to become one.
Start voting business minded people into politics. I know some you can start with
Problem is, evaluated from a business perspective, the country is a bad investment.
It has terrible cash flow, poor asset value, no customer base, poor prospects, low moral, fragmented management, internal theft issues, no business plan,and i’m not trying to be cruel or harsh, if I was thinking of buying, these are what would be looked at.
Can it be fixed? yes, possibly, but at what cost and effort?
We have yet to acknowledge any problems honestly though.