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	<title>Comments on: Government: &#8216;Ambitious Legislative Agenda&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Build a Better Bermuda</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325971</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Build a Better Bermuda]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 05:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#039;s your alternative, the PLP agenda to return us to crippling debt, so that we will no longer be able to fund education for our children at all, or support our seniors at all, eventual sell our country and economy to foreign creditors control and be forced into austerity measures just to keep getting loans to keep us afloat.
In the last couple decades, the only parties that have been able to successfully navigate this country&#039;s economy has been the UBP and the OBA. Sure the PLP had successful years, years of success that came from UBP policies and structure, and it is easy enough to manage an economy when it flush with success. But when the real test came, the PLP failed us and failed us spectacularly, and it will take generations to repair the lasting damage their short sightedness caused. And there is nothing that has happened to demonstrate to anybody in this country that they have actually tried to change that short sighted thinking and attitude within their party.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s your alternative, the PLP agenda to return us to crippling debt, so that we will no longer be able to fund education for our children at all, or support our seniors at all, eventual sell our country and economy to foreign creditors control and be forced into austerity measures just to keep getting loans to keep us afloat.<br />
In the last couple decades, the only parties that have been able to successfully navigate this country&#8217;s economy has been the UBP and the OBA. Sure the PLP had successful years, years of success that came from UBP policies and structure, and it is easy enough to manage an economy when it flush with success. But when the real test came, the PLP failed us and failed us spectacularly, and it will take generations to repair the lasting damage their short sightedness caused. And there is nothing that has happened to demonstrate to anybody in this country that they have actually tried to change that short sighted thinking and attitude within their party.</p>
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		<title>By: Unbelievable</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325889</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Unbelievable]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the news coverage of the PLP&#039;s internal dramas have wrestled away attention from the Throne Speech.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the news coverage of the PLP&#8217;s internal dramas have wrestled away attention from the Throne Speech.</p>
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		<title>By: jt</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325845</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate seat available for you now OJ.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Senate seat available for you now OJ.</p>
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		<title>By: sage</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325835</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressive payroll tax, good, let&#039;s have no tax for the first $50,000 and remove the non-progressive ceiling of $750,000 or whatever it is.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Progressive payroll tax, good, let&#8217;s have no tax for the first $50,000 and remove the non-progressive ceiling of $750,000 or whatever it is.</p>
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		<title>By: Onion Juice</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325757</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Onion Juice]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lets hurry up and vote them out.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets hurry up and vote them out.</p>
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		<title>By: sage</title>
		<link>https://bernews.com/2016/11/premiers-throne-speech/#comment-3325733</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sage]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Consideration of importation (of) herbal supplements containing Cannabinol to allow more medical treatment options.&quot; This was supposedly already done, and why import what can be produced locally for very little cost. “Initiating consultations to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis and avoid unnecessary criminalization of Bermuda’s young people.&quot; Still stuck on stupid, the report they commissioned said ganja needs to be made legal not decriminalized, limiting herb to small amounts while liqour and cancer sticks have never been is beyond ridiculous, and any unnecessary criminalization should be stopped for all ages not only the young. Free the trees.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Consideration of importation (of) herbal supplements containing Cannabinol to allow more medical treatment options.&#8221; This was supposedly already done, and why import what can be produced locally for very little cost. “Initiating consultations to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis and avoid unnecessary criminalization of Bermuda’s young people.&#8221; Still stuck on stupid, the report they commissioned said ganja needs to be made legal not decriminalized, limiting herb to small amounts while liqour and cancer sticks have never been is beyond ridiculous, and any unnecessary criminalization should be stopped for all ages not only the young. Free the trees.</p>
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