Submitted by Old Onions Bag
“capitalism gone mad ” ― Mighty sparrow
Things in Barbados today are like living in a boiling cauldron. It is hot hot and getting hotter. The people of this once ‘amiable and smiling faces’ land, have changed their outward appearances over-night and are real vex. When last you been to the supermarket or joined a paying queue,or the utility companies line? You don’t dare say “good morning ” nowadays and expect a mannerly reply. People are feeling the burn deep inside and manifesting their bile outwardly.
Visited the gas station lately and observed? See the long dreary faces as consumers accept their plights. Gasoline is almost a necessity like food and the providers know it. The prices go up and seldom down, but the mean price of this commodity is always up. One often wonders how come this is so, as the price of crude had in the past, plummeted, and remain that way for awhile. It leaves drivers with ‘nothing’… but to accept a sense of hopelessness.
Water bills high, light bills skyrocketing, cell and telephone rip rip rip. Nothing to smile about, like a vice grip or pliers locking off your swallow pipe leaving one fighting to breathe.
What once seemed an obviously easy fix, somehow turns into maze. Headmasters .v. teachers, commissions to solve, all at woozy cost. Somehow and knowing where, good hard earned tax payer’s money being apportioned out loosely, while those who ‘don’t really seem to matter’, have to work really hard for theirs. Signs of the times my friend.
Just heard of the news recently about a minibus rumpus near campus, last week, a lady falls from a muti-storey mall, so much nowadays to contemplate, nothing good, all to infuriate .
We hear of pecuniary transfers and swaps of the pejorative kind, poor quality drug replace, ups in taxes, professional fees, of all kinds…..leaves one to wonder, are we really living in the last times?
Yes fellow Barbadians, times really hard to find a smile, with gasoline now a $1 a mile and we fighting like hell to keep alive. The living standards in Barbados are quickly regressing, and no one dare argues otherwise. Some families are at present eating once a day only, others next to none. What more could possibly happen to make our calamity worse? More taxes?, No way people could fathom the dress. True reasons for all this, people of Barbados are now overly stressed.
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