If you call people idiots and criticise them for ‘whining’ when they are forced out of business, you can expect a reaction. And now it’s you ‘whining’.

I didn’t say that the PLP is blameless when it comes to Bermuda’s economy. I am talking about this specific set of circumstances that the idiots-yes IDIOTS-here are failing to understand, thus the reason they are idiots.

I am saying that this was a small store that could not compete with the bigger stores popping up. Look at this store and look at Brown & Co. which is much bigger sq. footage wise, with a much bigger selection and way better prices. All Wrapped Up had cute stuff, but I could never find everything I wanted there. Damn-even the dollar store had a bigger supply of party stuff than they did.

Big stores gobble up small stores all the time-THAT is my point. That is not a defence of the PLP, it’s fact. The PLP haters are just so ready to jump down anyone’s throats who they think is defending them the least little bit, assuming they are supporters when we are just being something called OBJECTIVE. Mad Dawg is the absolute worse…he jumps on people and then has to apologize when he ends up looking like an idiot. Reading comprehension clearly isn’t his strong suit…so yes, he and people who think like him by ASSuming are IDIOTS!!!

Fact: In 2008 there were 12,968 work permits.

The most recent stat available, as far as I can find, is for July 2011, when the number had reduced to 8,608. A 33% reduction, by about 4,000, in less than 3 years.

But don’t let facts get in the way of making things up.

By the way, my job couldnt be outsourced since what i did was fixed to this rock and bringing in a non-Bermudian to do it would be illegal, but then again so is not releasing the salaries of seniour management at the hospital so i doubt the plp cares about legalities.

Mr Brown is a “genius” ? Stores are closing but “many more are opening”? Right.

I take your point about little stores finding it difficult to compete with big stores. But that doesn’t change the underlying cause of the difficulties that small stores are having: the economy has contracted severely. Thousands have left Bermuda to live and work in places that actually want them there. The government has tried spending like money grows on trees, and it hasn’t worked.

At any time in any economy, badly run or uncompetitive businesses will close. Right now, even decent, good, established businesses can’t survive.

But not to worry. According to Rolfe and Paula the economy is rebounding.

One way or another it is all labour. See anyone taking a cut in pay?

Just looking at these comments, I want the PLP to get in just to spite you idiots. People who are so dumb and narrow-minded and hateful…I’d love them to get in just to torment your little brains.

I won’t be standing in any bread lines so I don’t give a f**k. I can get on a plane and be in my house in Atlanta in two hours so I don’t give a flying f**k about you racist pigs.

Meanwhile, other big stores with a more pleasant shopping experience where you weren’t crammed in like sardines have opened up…so where do you think people are going to go?

I am not excusing the PLP for things that have gone wrong in Bermuda. HOWEVER, in these instances it’s clear to a blind man that these little stores were chewed up and spat out by the competition. Believe it or not, there are stores in Bermuda making a KILLING right now…just by the simple fact that they are smart and doing something right!!!

No, it’s not an interesting question. It’s an arrogant, self-serving comment that reeks solely of blame-shifting.

For the past seventeen years, the owner of this business has been thinking about those issues. For you, on the basis of a single story in Bernews, to suggest that he hasn’t, is the height of presumptuousness and arrogance.

But your comment is typical of many who post here- find a reason to blame the victim, and not the government. Ignore the effect of poor Government performance.

You (the electorate) get what you deserve. The Island gets what it deserves.

Please. Call the election now.

EW

Every time the least thing goes wrong, it’s the PLP’s fault. I’m not talking about the broader picture of international business, I’m talking specifically here about retail. Businesses are closing, yes, but many more are opening. My point about small stores like All Wrapped Up and especially Foreign Cargo is that they are getting eaten up by the bigger stores like Brown. & Co. and Gibbons Home Store. Have you ever been to Brown & Co.? If you have, you’d see there’s NO comparison between them and Foreign Cargo. Brown & Co. is a much better shopping experience and is THRIVING just as most (if not all) of Mr. Brown’s businesses are because he is a genius businessman who give the customer what they want.

Why go into these tiny stores with limited merchandise when you can go to large stores like Brown & Co. that have TONS more stuff at way lower prices? Bermudians have gotten sick of running all around town looking for what they need. Smart businesses like Brown & Co. have everything you need under one roof-once I started shopping there I never went back to Foreign Cargo with their ridiculously overpriced goods and limited variety.

That’s the other thing-obviously the larger stores can sell their wares cheaper. All of these things are putting the little stores out of business and it’s something that happens everywhere in the world! It’s just like if we ever brought Walmart here (yes, I know it will never happen)-we’d then probably see Brown & Co, Gibbons, etc. close down as well as everyone would flock to Walmart for a bigger selection/lower price. That’s how these things world, Mad Dawg.

It’s a little thing called COMPETITION. We are a capitalist society so these things happen. What do you want the PLP to do-say ‘sorry, you can’t have a bigger selection or sell goods that are already being sold elsewhere because you’ll put that store out of business.’ COME ON! Be for real. Again, I just want to point out how people are on such a witch hunt for the PLP that they can’t use intelligence and logic to see what’s happening here. I am referring to these stores-not the bigger picture of what is happening in Bermuda. So how about you get YOUR head out of the OBA’s butt and do something about those cerebral challenges you have because honestly, Mad Dawg, you are the most ignorant, narrow-minded poster on all of Bernews.

What steps were taken by your landlord to reduce your rent or grant concessions? I trust that your landlord offered to reduce your rent or extend your lease temporariy since we are so close to Christmas and the chances of finding a new tenant before then are slim.

This is one example of how businesses and landlords can adjust to keep busiesses going instead of blaming the government at every twist and turn.

Must be tough being a paid PLP blogger.

Is ‘swing voters…’ etc your real name, or do you have no balls either?

There are too many people in the PLP that are gullible and feeding off one another, Col. Burch could have even stole a 3rd constituency to run in if he lost again in the second one, and of course we all know he is not a team player!

Premier Cox can not stop him, she is a cog, she would be ousted at the PLP conference.

What killed Bermuda retail is amazon not PLP.

Refer to facts, not just to what you say.

Don’t put the blame on this government.

The most envied little island in the world will be left looking like Haiti. Who would have thought he & the PLP could have accomplished so much in such a short peiod of time?

How DID they do it? Well it was easy. You voted for the PLP. You got what you voted for. You got what you deserved. You, your children, your grandchildren are now left holding the bag. Whats inside does not smell very nice.