by Rick Lowe
I'd like to thank Mr. Roberts for his brief civics lesson in his recent rebuttal but it's important to correct him when he says he does not recall hearing anything anti-government from me.
It is interesting when people try to weave a yarn without deference to the facts. If Mr. Roberts would visit www.weblogbahamas.com or www.nassauinstitute.org he'd find consistent statements about the bad policies of the FNM and PLP over the years, along with suggestions for improvement. Hopefully he will visit those sites and garner some new policy ideas to help the government on what he refers to as the "new path to empowerment, peace and prosperity".
As I expressed to Mr. Roberts on the phone, there is not only one group of people that love this country and want to see it and her people do well.
Unfortunately, he seems to have missed one of the most important points I was making so it's worth restating it here.
The burden of the country is now on the shoulders of Mr. Roberts and the PLP's team. Undoubtedly it's heavy, but they wanted the challenge. Elections are over and the country deserves more than what amounts to rhetoric to keep us all at odds.
But why should we be surprised? He just confirms what H. L. Mencken said:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
It's time now to move us "Forward, Onward, Upward, Together" until the next election Mr. Roberts.
To be “elected” is to also be “employed” by the citizens that pay the salaries of politicians. To earn their salaries and to be respected it is reasonable to expect them to listen – respectfully to their “employer’s” comments – so long as the latter are also respectful.
Why is that once elected many politicians assume positions of self-importance and knowledga far above their pay grade.
In due course they become so insufferable that the people throw them out!!!
I wish we could throw them all out & start again.I think its pretty poor when you have to dig up all these old PLP’s that have been out to pasture for years, where is the new blood ? One or two just don’t cut it.We are tired of the old PLP,sick & tired.(That includes Mr.Roberts)
The real fault is with our political parties as they are only out for political gain and the preservation of the elite political class who run the Bahamas, and who have amassed substantial fortunes from their political positions of economic power.. Every five or so years our political elites must come down from their thrones of power and promise what ever they must to seek election or be reelected.. It is always the usual, “promise them anything” for once elected and power is secured, the public will eventually forget.. Do politicians lie?? Of course not, for all politicians, we must not forget, there are no such things as lies, only the truth keeps changing over time.. If they can control the people of a nation long enough, a totalitarian form of government will most likely be the result..