As the former employees of City Market are strung along as if they are pawns in a game by the political class, the matter is really a private one and should be played out in the courts if the owners do not settle up as legally required.

A little background.

Back in August the spokesman for the former employees stated Mr. Perry Christie (PLP), Prime Minister, would be "resolving this matter." More…

I can still understand the Prime Minister meeting with potential voters to attain a political advantage, but he has no power to resolve this matter, unless he is planning to use taxpayer funds to settle the outstanding balances and surely that's out of the question.

Fast forward

But fast forward to December 13 and it is alleged the employee representative is threatening to march to Bay Street and close it down, while Mr. Dion Foulkes (FNM) and former Minister of Labour is calling on the government to pay the $4.6 million owed to them by their pension fund as well as mandated severance payments. More…

Of course there is precedent, established by the former FNM government, for welfare actions like this, but the government is under no moral, ethical or legal constraints to pay these funds from taxpayer dollars.

As for disrupting Bay Street for this private matter when the courts are there for reasons like this, they should be arrested immediately.

I would be willing to donate a couple hundred dollars toward the legal fees of the former staff because I strongly believe the politicians should not be involved and the Courts should decide the outcome. The contracts were between City Market and their former employees, not with the government.

To paraphrase Ludwig von Mises, these welfare state policies are merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. And they simply cannot be sustained. Future generations will already be saddled with ever increasing taxes to pay for governments proclivity to spend other people's money.

Would you be willing to donate to a legal aid fund for the former City Market associates?