There's been a lot of sound and fury in the press recently about some elite people getting contracts without bidding and accumulating unpaid bills at the public utility companies.
Those of us that attempt to live within the bounds of decency submit bids via the "fair" process outlined by government agencies (when we're even asked to participate) and keep our bills current while some see no problem with circumventing the system.
In fact the former Deputy Prime Minister asks, "What's All the fuss about?"
With an economy remaining in shambles and additional taxes, regulatory/administrative burdens and corruption the order of the day one has to believe some folks live in an alternative universe.
No rules for them and a host of rules for most other people.
What a mad, (read weird) existence. Expecting us peons to comply while they mooch and loot like those people in Ayn Rand's great novel, Atlas Shrugged. The "...moochers, who claim your product by tears, ...(and) the looters, who take it from you by force..." yet have no ethics where some of their actions are concerned.
The Bahamas can crawl back from this instead of escaping to a "hidden valley". It's an arduous task considering the years of abuse by some in elite circles, but if these practices are not curbed and the offenders brought to account this hypocrisy cannot continue for much longer before the system collapses from its own weight?
Maybe a course on ethics should be started in grade school and continue through graduation? One thing is certain, it is time for some national discourse on ethics if one can ask what the fuss is about all these revelations.
