Comments on: PLP: ‘We Reduced Taxes, Cut Spending & Deficit’

By: Bermudaboi

Bermudaboi — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:53:33 +0000

PLP: ‘We Reduced Taxes, Cut Spending & Deficit’
That is one load of crap.

By: de ja vodoo

de ja vodoo — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:34:50 +0000

Eyes wide shut. You made the mess. Now someone else has to clean it up. The plp never balanced the checkbook they just kept writing checks.

By: Eyes wide open.

Eyes wide open. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:47:54 +0000

Silly!

By: Eyes wide open.

Eyes wide open. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:42:22 +0000

The debt ceiling is about to be raised by your precious OBA! I guess we’ll sit back as they condemn us straight to HELL under Bob Richards. There is a silver lining, my God is awesome and the PLP will be back a lot SOONER than you think! Bless you

By: bermuda boy

bermuda boy — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:59:38 +0000

PLP Logic………………the older I get the better I was.

By: row, row,row ur boat......

row, row,row ur boat...... — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:22:48 +0000

The gift of gab can lift you or sink you. No matter what big n extravagant words maybe used in ur speeches, most Bermudians really did not understand; BUT!!!they recognized that the words could not bail us out n the PLP sold us out. Oh PLP!!! Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water…..OOPS….the whole island was thrown.
Well look @ the position we find our island in….!
Does PLP have more money combined, then this new Government has? Just asking!!!

By: Bobmarlin

Bobmarlin — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:30:25 +0000

WHAT A LOAD OF VERBAL DIARRHEA !

By: SpinCycle

SpinCycle — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:53:25 +0000

Yah, Kinda like I win $1 on the lottery every week…
by NOT playing!

Just think how much they could have saved Bermuda…
by NOT being the Government!

By: Petra

Petra — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:40:56 +0000

hahah – wish we had a like button on here!

By: Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Apocalypse — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:21:31 +0000

But Cox’s pension is vested, their’s aren’t. One of them isn’t even in the government at all. And her pension is based on what she earned as Premier & Finance Minister. Their’s won’t be (unless they become Premier and Finance Minister). And even then, Ministerial salaries have reduced since the OBA got in, so the resulting pensions will be commensurately lower.

Interestingly, Cox’s pension rights fully vested about a month before the election. How coincidental and fortunate for her.

By: Bda Speaks

Bda Speaks — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:54:38 +0000

Why all the talk of Pensions? Dr. Gibbons, Trevor Moniz and John Barritt are closer to receiving their parliamentary pensions than Paula Cox is! Do you even know how a parliamentarian qualifies to receive a pension or you just making this up to try and have something to say?

By: LostinFlatts

LostinFlatts — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:52:34 +0000

That’s genuinely remarkable. I mean, I know the PLP are happy to make pretty outrageous statements, but come on.

“We’d like the Bermudian people to acknowledge that while we seriously damaged the Bermudian economy, the level of that damage is actually less than we originally thought. So we deserve credit for doing less damage than we thought we were going to do.”

It’s like saying “Look before you get mad at me having stolen $100 from you, keep in mind that when you first checked your wallet, you thought I’d stolen $200. So really I’ve saved you $100.”

It’s magnificent. That people can actually think like that is a testament to the sheer limits of logic.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:59:31 +0000

well it surely wasn’t import tax..food has gone through the roof expensive!

By: Bermy Gooner

Bermy Gooner — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:56:21 +0000

Can someone please enlighten to me as what taxes have been reduced?

By: swing voter

swing voter — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:47:49 +0000

@ TD my bet is that Richards will fix that scenario. Average Bermudians have their my azz in a sling, quality of life, even employment, all on the edge because of poor policies and outright mismanagement. I’m not part of the St. Kitts club so I don’t have anywhere to run.

By: Pastor Syl Hayward

Pastor Syl Hayward — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:38:02 +0000

Oh LORD!! Somebody get me a new keyboard, please! Soup and electronics don’t mix!

PLP: How about we wouldn’t have had a deficit at all if you hadn’t started spending more than revenues in the first place.
Please, just STOP!

By: 80's Baby

80's Baby — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:12:55 +0000

But wasn’t the minister of finance the premier?? Hmmm, of course they will say that…

By: Black Soil

Black Soil — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:56:55 +0000

You can imagine the spin and bs the PLP would be talking today if they had won. The PLP were slowly killing Bermuda. Praise God they are gone!!!

By: dinosaurmedia

dinosaurmedia — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:47:43 +0000

Less of a deficit is still a deficit-dumb ass PLP…
2+2 = 5 as well I guess…

By: ohyea!

ohyea! — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:44:23 +0000

RLMAO i chiked on my oatmeal this morning with this joke ! RLMAO

By: Argosy

Argosy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:39:48 +0000

Their record has already spoken volumnes and no more needs to be said about the PLP’s total lack of fiscal ability, knowledge, integrity, etc…

By: Nuffin but de Truth!

Nuffin but de Truth! — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:37:55 +0000

More outright blatant LIES from the People’s Lying Party.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:29:13 +0000

She was last seen on a beach somewhere, head still firmly stuck in the sand, but with both hands held out collecting Premiers pension, all the while hoping Bermuda will forget her.

By: Bermyman

Bermyman — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:20:59 +0000

The PLP did not want the public to know how bad things really were. They wanted power and all the perks at any cost, to the detriment of Bermuda. Wait until the forensic accountants have finished tracing all of the cost overruns on projects.

By: swing voter

swing voter — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:05:16 +0000

Cox and her gang of 12 are cruising now….done their part, now eligible to collect a fat pension at our expense….OBA should revise that MP pension scheme, cut 50%. Why should those who put us in this mess benefit from their poor performance.

By: Tolerate

Tolerate — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:57:43 +0000

That shows ended…. It’s gonna get more and more frustrating to Bermudians when reality is released. I know it’s the PLP’s job to defend and continue trying to put themselves in a shining light; but its follow-up comments like these that get me more pissed off at what they have done (or in some peoples mind, was unable to control).

By: Tolerate

Tolerate — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:51:34 +0000

Hahaha….. My thoughts exactly. PLP wants a pat on the back after they allowed the horse to bolt. Their only contribution to addressing Bermuda financial disaster they were a part of creating was when it got so bad it could not be covered up any more.
Our last Finance Minister was always quoting all the things she did for Bermuda? Sorry, you own this mess and WILL go down in history as the worst Finance Minister Bermuda had.
Just be relieved it’s a none factor on your resume as it was never your field of profession.
SMH

By: C.B.A.

C.B.A. — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:27:23 +0000

Just stop PLP, just stop. You created this mess.

By: Bieber

Bieber — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:25:43 +0000

Where’s Paula? Is she the Shadow Minister now? Or just a shadow of the past?

By: whatever

whatever — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:21:11 +0000

whoops, that was supposed to be in reply to BG 9.39 am

By: whatever

whatever — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:20:31 +0000

The ones that would have been collected on the payroll for jobs lost because of companies either going out of business or moving their operations to another location.

By: Joonya

Joonya — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:14:44 +0000

“The total revenue raised by the consolidated fund for fiscal 2011/12 was approximately $914.2 million, while current expenses were $1.246 billion.”
Is this how you define “success”? You must think we are imbeciles.

By: I'm not called stupid

I'm not called stupid — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:07:03 +0000

Let me see if I got this straight, the PLP wants to be pat on the back for presenting a budget where originally said they would be a balance, then later on the balance changes to a deficit, then finally when we get a new party in power and they tell us that the deficit is slightly less then last projected, the PLP wants to be congradulated of that news???

Good lord, with that same rational we can say the NAZI’s weren’t really that bad because at the end of the war, they kill far fewer jewish people they they projected at the start of the war.

By: anythingforaGPcar

anythingforaGPcar — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:01:04 +0000

Bermuda was(is) in complete financial free fall headed for the bottom! It seems the PLP is relieved to hear whats actually happening! noone had a clue at all!

By: o

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:55:55 +0000

Where did you get the first quote from? Don’t see it in the story.

By: Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Apocalypse — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:52:42 +0000

Burt’s logic is a bit like “I was planning to go to Vegas for a week, but now I changed my mind, so I ‘saved’ $5,000.”

By: Bermy Gooner

Bermy Gooner — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:50:01 +0000

The above quote is from a November RG article right after the throne speech.

By: Bermy Gooner

Bermy Gooner — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:46:10 +0000

“Looking forward, Senator David Burt has, remarkably, stated that there will be no reduction in Government spending for the next three years.”

But yet in teh above article Mr. Burt now claims that the PLP actually reduced spending. Interesting, but predictable.

By: Bermy Gooner

Bermy Gooner — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:39:17 +0000

And also please highlight the taxes which have been cut…