In spite of Mr. Jerome Fitzgerald's recently stated epiphany about the government failure in education, had successive governments not rejected ideas that might have improved their results over the past thirty years or so the story might be a lot different today.

In the same issue of The Tribune, Robert Myers reminded us of the travesty of the immigration departments suffocation of business by not providing work permits at a reasonable price. The detrimental impact on the country's economic growth is self evident.

So on the one hand the government educational system is failing Bahamians and they cannot get work, or decent work, and on the other hand they are failing business by denying growth opportunities that provide jobs.

History shows, they're not really interested in the results of a failing government educational system. Nothing more than lip service anyway.

But of course at election time they care about everyone and will save us from ourselves. As H.L. Mencken said; "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."