1) High stakes casinos with plush red carpet, champagne, a mono-rail, legalized cannabis, lilies and flowers growing everywhere;

2) Strict laws on desecrating the environment in any way with harsh penalties for disobedience;

3) Family planning laws starting with marriage and based on security.

4) Public flogging

Never mind.

I give up! The current government should move out of the way and let the ones who beat the horse into the ground see if they can get it back on its feet. I bet the first thing they do is throw a BBQ (dead horse) and say we are feeding the masses. When the meat runs out and our economic future is so far gone they will explain why devaluing the dollar is a good thing. For every $1 US look you have $32 BDA. We are all rich.

This is an example of visionary leadership.

In the late 1970 comprehensive legislation and oversight procedures was put in place to make Bermuda the first country to formalize the captive industry. As a result we have the benefits of international business community today. The Cayman Islands quickly copied Bermuda. That is an example of vision leadership.

I’m sorry but deciding to cut government spending is not the vision going forward. It will only temporality relieve us of the fiscal burden we are in. We need a bold, new, innovate idea (vision) to help us to get out of this mess. In these economic times all governments have cut spending, the US government have cut spending, the UK government, and in many other European countries their governments have cut spending, where is the leadership in that. Many people in their own lives have had to cut spending, that is not visionary leadership, it is necessary for survival. In other words, as the finance minister put it, “we can’t maintain the Status Quo.”

There have been talks about deep offshore mining, not that I agree with it because I don’t know much about it but that is an example of innovate, bold, leadership thinking.

Without a vision going forward, people will continue to be distracted, discouraged and disengaged.

I don’t know how you define visionary leadership, but to my mind the SAGE report is not it. All the report is – it’s the Tylenol to relieve some of the pain, not the plan to fix the broken bone (fiscal system) in multiple places.

See, it seemed as though you were dismissing it altogether in your post up there.

If you agree that it IS, in fact, part of a plan, then cool.

What I don’t get is how you can say that there has been no leadership… and yet, they’ve got part of a plan.

However, simply cutting cost alone will not get us out of this fiscal mess. We need an innovative economic vision or plan that will help us get out of the fiscal challenges facing this island.

Vision is the key word. Not let’s take a stab at this and see if it works. So far there has been no vision (leadership) from the government on the way forward.

The JETGATE AFFAIR has set us back even further, by hurting Bermuda’s ability for a big Hotel development. The OBAubp can not continue to use the BLAME THE PLP CARD as a method to escape from their lack of PLAN or SOLUTIONS for BERMUDA moving forward.

The OBAubp need to get a PLAN together as fast as possible.

This marks a turning point in the rating agency’s outlook.

However, the question has to be asked, where is the vision from our political leaders to get us out of this mess? It is easy to say blame the PLP but that does nothing to move us forward. The PLP was voted out.

Under this OBA government, what is the plan or vision to get us out of this mess? The SAGE report is not the plan.

In plain language? Bermuda is not out of the doo-doo and it might get into deeper doo-doo.

The tone and style of the written language of these reports is almost exactly the opposite or inverse of the words spoken by the report writers.

But their resulting written description remains. Bermuda is not out of its mess and might get in deeper.

That’s far better than the descent that the PLP allowed and the OBA had to grapples with when they took over.

Lobster time. And a rum.

Season?
It’s not raining.
Shalom.