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What is supposed to pass for dabate in the House of Assembly is becoming a joke.
With all the problems our little country faces, Parliamentarians spend time arguing over who should get credit for the National Stadium built as a "gift" from the Chinese.
It is well known the PLP made the deal and the FNM saw it through the construction phase.
What's the big deal?
Of course no mention is made of how we are supposed to pay the ongoing expenses to maintain the place and the Chinese don't really care. They bought our cooperation. What more do they need?
When considering all the problems associated with the stadium one wonders why anyone would want credit for that albatross?
But seriously folks, isn't there something more constructive our "leaders" could be discussing?
If only they would spend a much time in trying to deal with our huge crime problem as they do in bickering like children then maybe we could get somewhere.This only proves to me that they do not care & we have elected a bunch of loonies.
Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, Eng-er-land, is looking much better as time goes by.
As for the Chinese, who have always taken ‘the long view’ (some say the only international relations strategy worth following), they have steadily become embedded in every part of the world that doesn’t have the vision to see why they are there or the courage to turn them away.
Our former Minister of State (Mr Laing) concluded that:
“What the Chinese want for all their financial and technical generosity …. jobs for their citizens, markets for their products, earnings for their excess cash, and friends in the international community as they move their national vision and mission forward”.
http://www.caribjournal.com/2013/06/10/china-and-the-caribbean-a-marriage-made-in-heaven/
What the former Minister neglected to add, however, is the control over areas of the world that would extend their sphere of influence better to compete head-to-head with the USA.
China built a pan-African railroad in the Southern Africa in the 1960’s; guess who is making best use of this important transport link now to convery commodities from west and central Africa to the east coast to be loaded on ships for the Far East. Similar major construction projects in Brasil (the longest dock in the history of the world) – guess who is making best use of it to transport ore and other minerals from the interior to be taken by ships to you know where and other parts of the world, like Ethiopia and Somalia.
The saddest thing about this, however, is that America’s sphere of influence is being diminished right under its noses. The Chinese aren’t interested in being paid back for some small sports stadium. What interested them (and I would argue the only thing that interests them) is the geographic proximity The Bahamas gives them to the USA: proximity that will facilitate corporate espionage, proximity that will allow them to mix readily with Americans at their most vulnerable (when on holiday) and proximity that will eventually give them a sound offshore base from which they could challenge America’s strength in the region!
Wake up Bahamas – there is nothing such as a free lunch and this ain’t one, either!
We need to line the whole of parliament up & do a Loretta on them every one to knock some sense into them because right now they all have none.
Response to Had Enough:
The Loretta incident reminds me of the story when an Abaco man slapped a lady and went before the judge. She said,” When he slapped me I saw stars.” He replied, “You called me a rheumatism S.O.B. and you can be thankful of that because if I was not suffering from rheumatism you would have seen God.”
What is really needed is not a Loretta slapping another MP but the Bahamian public dumping the whole lot of losers from Parliament.
Amen GQ,Amen.That’s exactly how a lot of people feel.Not only to dump them but dump them in skunk stew !