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Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced in the recent budget that a 15% pandemic contribution levy will be charged to companies deemed resilient that earned net income greater than 5 million dollars in 2020 ad 2021. Companies operating in telecommunications, retail sale of petroleum products by dealers, commercial banks, general and life insurance were targeted. The years 2020 and 2021 as we know were the pandemic that wreckrd havoc on global economies, some more than others. 

The blogmaster understands the challenging job the government has to manage a fragile economy, one that was in a precarious state before Covid 19 pandemic. Not to forget Hurricane Elsa, Soufriere volcano ash and of recent the effect the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Managing an open economy cannot be easy EXCEPT to armchair pundits.

Understandably spokespersons from the business community effected by the levy are not pleased. Coming relative soon after the debt restructure in 2018 when many of the companies effected by the pandemic levy had to take haircuts, the recent decision will not help to improve confidence level of doing business in Barbados. What other options did the government have to shore up finances?

There is the saying if you [WE] made your [OUR] bed, you [WE] have to lie in it.

Listen to Prime Minister Mia Mottley explain the Pandemic Levy:-

https://www.erienewsnow.com/clip/15304122/prime-minister-mia-mottley-announces-pandemic-contribution-levy

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110 responses to “Pandemic Levy Misery”

  1. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “BU Community subject to Jamaican “dub reggae”..Daily???”

    Dub was Jamaica’s Gift to the Whole Wide World
    When you listen to the song lyrics it takes your soul to a higher level of liberation and freedom of the mind
    When you remove the words and flash it in a King Tubby’s dub plate stylee you internalise the message out of your head in your body and become the vibration meditation

  2. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “@Tony
    Why $35?”

    grouptherapy Zen
    Fund Accounting depends on various legal rules and automated algorithms so that if a Company is valued in the Top 100 it will automatically be purchased for investment pension and institutional funds. Like Crowd Hysteria Hype the trends are magnified and Companies share values grow disproportionately based on market value not company turnover. Hip Hop has high numbers of billionaires in Business Movies Advertising etc. Don’t hate the player hate the game and charge it to the game. If you want to know more wisdom you will have to give me your credit card details

  3. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    zen | GROUPTHERAPY. LIVE

  4. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    grouptherapy. – ‘there goes the neighborhood.’
    grouptherapy.’s debut mixtape ‘there goes the neighborhood.’ is out now everywhere …

  5. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    It’s all about designer shit
    GROUPTHERAPY. RECORDS PRESENTS: LIGHT DAY CYPHER

    {verse: tjw}
    Hold up wait, hold up wait
    Gotta smell like ysl on the first date
    You like it i love it
    I’m stuntin a hunnid
    My standards so high can’t put nothing above it (by the way)
    The shot was a bucket
    Whether or not we was talking gymnastics you don’t need to wonder i stuck it
    Lately i been on my by any means
    Walk out the store with some shit like i don’t know what buying it means
    Mama like “why must you be so flamboyant?”
    I saw where i was and marie kondo told me to stop it if there ain’t no joy in it
    I see it, i like it, i want it, delivery
    I pick up the package, small talk with the neighbors, this weather is killin’ me
    My car so efficient its different they send me a check just to drive the shit
    The car’s automatic but every time baby get in it we drivin stick

    {hook: tjw}
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck, i got louis locked on my neck
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck, i got louis locked on my neck

    {verse: jadagrace}
    Fit too clean you can see it in my jeans don’t need 23 and me
    Drip mr. clean, keep my name out ya mouth like listerine
    Money so old can’t see, got a gold ass cataract
    If i make a call it’s a wrap, get blowed in the back from an old ass cadillac
    I want it, i cop it, it’s not that exciting
    Got style and money, i don’t need a stylist
    Spent like $400 on one of my eyelashes
    I need the diamonds don’t care bout the marriages
    557 horsepower my carriages
    Gold in my hair cuz there’s gold in my heritage
    I go to paris to look at the parishes
    Traffic at customs too busy declaring shit

    {hook: jadagrace}
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck, i got louis locked on my neck
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck, i got louis locked on my neck

    {verse: koi}
    Had a long talk on a long day
    Took a long walk, went a long way
    Made a u-turn, went the wrong way
    Niggas do earn like a small case with the ashes in it
    We evolving way past the scrimmage
    Steady robbin then i’m baskin in it
    This is not the dentist, i don’t have to spit it
    I could let em tell me “action!” go collect my cash and split it with a cast of niggas if i needed to
    She said “you working like it’s three of you” but it’s one of me
    Fuck a check i want a money tree
    Let it rain even under weather you could never reign
    My ego heavy, ima let it hang
    Let em talk, nigga let em’ sing
    All that money and don’t ever change, that’s crazy
    See when it comes to the cash niggas do the dash somethin like stacy all you niggas seem sure send you to the morgue and like tracy no mcgrady
    But my shot game too crazy
    All of this weight that i’m carrying niggas hilarious
    Look at my flows and the way that they varying
    Look at my shows in the way that i carry em’
    Fuck a comparison i want the crown don’t plan on sharing it
    Only my circle is getting a square of it
    Me and my niggas like horses and carriages
    We ride together
    She wanna pay for it, i never let her
    Weight of the world it feel light as a feather

    {hook: koi}
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck aye, i got louis locked on my neck aye
    No flex, bowflex, light day
    Low tech, rolex, my way
    I got louis locked on my neck aye , i got louis locked on my neck aye

  6. John Avatar
    John

    Bush TeaMarch 28, 2022 7:10 AM

    These damn people were allowed to remain open when small operators were FORCED to shut their businesses.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    … and it did not work!!

    Had it worked, the GOB would be smelling like a rose but it was just one more failure and the failure rests squarely with the GOB.

    If anything, the GOB should repay the businesses it injured through its misguided policies.

    That would make it think twice before it runs headlong into half ass measures which can only cause harm.

  7. John Avatar
    John

    DavidMarch 28, 2022 6:14 AM

    A time for goodwill
    BARBADOS IS IN a severe fiscal bind after two unprecedented years – 2020 and 2021 – caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The bind is caused by half ass measures which many said would not work but the GOB insisted on pursuing.

    Take what you want and pay for it!!

  8. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    More music
    you cannot refuse it
    scene it?
    day in question.
    · grouptherapy. · SWIM · Jadagrace
    .
    Parental warning
    Explicit lyrics


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apBvZcAZEiE

  9. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    More Non-Dub Non-Reggae music
    *but still has influences and essence of MCing from the blunts
    Yikes
    crew came through nasty with this one damn this thang crazy and it bump in the whip too give it a try!
    ⁃grouptherapy.

  10. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “Barbados is sitting on a powder cake of division and confusion
    Won’t be long before the whole thing explodes”

    are you talking about experiencing a mind and body orgasm

    when a party is defeated by 30 losses (out of 30) they should go out of business
    there is no point talking about politics again for 5 years / one term

  11. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ Bush Tea March 27, 2022 10:08 PM

    I see the situation as less desolate. We still have a resource in excess: people through overpopulation. We can export at least 10 years 10000 workers.

    100000 inhabitants on our small island are enough. The rest is a burden.

  12. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    “We can export at least 10 years 10000 workers.”

    If you still plan to import 80,000 with the goal of having a total population of 100,000 then you will have to export 25,000 for 10 years
    .
    Recalculate. Get busy.

  13. John Avatar
    John

    TronMarch 28, 2022 9:28 AM

    @ Bush Tea March 27, 2022 10:08 PM

    I see the situation as less desolate. We still have a resource in excess: people through overpopulation. We can export at least 10 years 10000 workers.

    100000 inhabitants on our small island are enough. The rest is a burden.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    What’s the population on islands of similar size to ours in the area?

    Antigua – 99, 333
    Bermuda – 61,880
    Dominica – 72,296
    Grenada – 113,426
    St. Kitts, Nevis – 53,851
    St. Lucia – 185,080
    St. Vincent – 111,550

    … maybe 150K!!!

  14. John Avatar
    John

    Our population surpassed 100K in about 1817, more than 2 centuries ago!!!

  15. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @TheOGazertsMarch 28, 2022 9:55 AM

    The problem is not overpopulation per se, but the large number of welfare recipients, civil servants and other idlers who live at the taxpayer’s expense.

    Of course, our honourable government does not want to import another 80000 beggars, but rich people, high flyers and work serfs. In other words, people who will move us forward.

  16. John Avatar
    John

    TronMarch 28, 2022 11:43 AM

    @TheOGazertsMarch 28, 2022 9:55 AM

    The problem is not overpopulation per se, but the large number of welfare recipients, civil servants and other idlers who live at the taxpayer’s expense.

    Of course, our honourable government does not want to import another 80000 beggars, but rich people, high flyers and work serfs. In other words, people who will move us forward.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Plenty high IQ Ukrainians and Russians to be had for a song!!

  17. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    just got 790 bucks back from rob ford for for my car licences

  18. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    The problem john is every second person lives to 100

  19. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Lawson,

    I got back $ 350

    Meanwhile tne Feds buying new toys for the fly boys.

    Canada chooses to buy F-35 fighter jet

    https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-chooses-to-buy-f-35-fighter-jet-cp-sources-1.5837644

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Hants
    @GP
    Are you following soccer by our National Team?
    8-1
    9-0
    I am here angry.

    Your love of WI cricket tells me you are gluttons for punishment.

    Recommending BNT soccer

  21. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Wow Hants I didnt even know you had to license a mo-ped.
    Theo Canada just kicked some soccer ass, that will teach you southern guys not to come north to play in the cold.

  22. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Tony
    The IPO is to raise $$$$ via equity vs debt. The share price doesn’t really matter, it is the total shares sold at a price. What they likely wish to avoid, is recent IPO experience, of a huge initial spike followed by a larger crash. The profit accrues to the traders not the equity itself. Yet the stock gets pressure to perform with all those who are in at the higher price. Rivian and Beyond Meat being two of many examples.

  23. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ TheOGazerts,

    https://www.nationnews.com/2022/03/27/windies-grab-richards-botham-trophy-10-wicket-win/

  24. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    A tiny drop of bitterness: retirement at 70 is all well-and-good. But what is still missing is a moderate reduction in civil servants’ salaries by 30-50 per cent.

    I am confident, however, that we will manage this after the sixth or seventh IMF programme around 2030 at the latest. Anyone who believes that we will ever get rid of the IMF must either be an idiot or an outright liar.

  25. John Avatar
    John

    LawsonMarch 28, 2022 1:10 PM

    The problem john is every second person lives to 100

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Suspect the number of centenerians will fall as the first Chefette generation strives to hit 100.

    Those who were born in the good old days of the 1920’s and 1930’s may very well be the last generation of Bajans in which you will find many centenerians.

    I’ve seen two cousins born in the late 1940’s die under 70.

  26. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Bush Tea March 28, 2022 7:10 AM “Such an initiative could have been PRIVATELY executed…”

    But it wasn’t.

    So?

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    John is incorrect. Canes arenot cut only for a few months each year. Up to the late 60’s or later the sugar cane harvest regularly lasted from january to June. By my count Januaty to June is more that a few months in the year.

    And what did the slaves do all day.

    They worked. Or maybe I should say they were worked.

    As well as cutting cane, the enslaved people cultivated the cane fields/dug cane holes, planted the cane, weeded the fields, applied animal fertilizer to the fields. They planted, weeded, fertilized and harvested food crops for themselves and the white master’s. Harvesting sweet potatoes, cassava, eddoes yams and other root crops without mechanical equipment is not easy work. The enslaved people raised livestock, cows, horses etc. they milked the cows, they made the butter. They loaded the stinky animal manure in large “down baskets” [you know down baskets John] and headed those baskets of manure to the fields. They harvested the material from which down baskets are made from the gullies and made those down baskets, using open flame wood fires they cooked the food in the plantation kitchens, they washed the clothes of the white people, they ironed those clothes, they scrubbed the floors, they cleaned the kitchens. They minded the children of their white masters, They breast fed the white babies. They reproduced the labor force, that is they were compelled into sex, child bearing and child rearing whether they wanted to or not. The enslaved people manufactured the sugar. Sugar is manufactured by boiling the juice of sugar cane. So the enslaved people worked in the sun, and others worked in the high heat of the processing mills. They manufactured the barrels in which the sugar was stored and shipped to England. One of my ancestors was a cooper/barrel maker at Rock Hall Plantation in St. Peter. The enslaved people looked after the enslaved children, the enslaved elderly, the enslaved disabled.

    They made the plantation economies work.

    They enriched England.

    And then they died as penniless as they had been born.

  28. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Great job cuhdear.

  29. John A Avatar
    John A

    Well this 5% will be the first attempt at patching the hole in the revenue bucket, as we wait for the see saw covid machine to make its next move. This will be our reality as long as we put all our eggs in the tourism basket.

    I was glad to hear though of the agricultural push with Guyana and only yesterday passed and saw the massive reservoir for the project at Lears well on its way to completion.

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Many of those tourism related projects stuck in the pipeline are legacy projects. Are you suggesting they should be abandoned?

  31. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    Should ask John what Black workers did on his family land all day long, before hanging out at lunch time on what his family termed the “nigga tree”.

  32. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear BajanMarch 28, 2022 9:02 PM

    John is incorrect. Canes arenot cut only for a few months each year. Up to the late 60’s or later the sugar cane harvest regularly lasted from january to June. By my count Januaty to June is more that a few months in the year.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The simple point you miss is that in your day, there was no slavery.

    At the time there was slavery, output was about 10K tons per year vs 200K during the time you remember.

    January to June is 6 months, used to produce 200K tons of sugar.

    There is no comparison with the production of 10K tons..

    What you will find is that chemical and mechanical energy replaced manpower and horsepower and that was what made the 20 fold increase in output possible.

    Even animal dung was replaced by manufactured fertilizer from Germany and elsewhere, Ruhr Stikstoff AG (Rustiska in Bajan parlance) applied by tractor and fertilizer attachments and weed control was done by herbicides applied by mechanical equipment.

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr-Stickstoff

    This investment of large amounts of capital in the process of producing sugar is what enabled a laid back approach in producing 10K to be replaced by a more modern output focused process.

    This capital is what changed the harsh economic conditions existing in Barbados after its position in world trade had been supplanted by …. steam and more efficient means of propulsion.

    Barbados has had a surplus of labor for most of its life because conditions were conducive to a growing population and the profits produced in its association with trade subsidized inefficient agricultural methods and fed its growing population.

  33. John Avatar
    John

    I have no doubt you played up in animal dung as a child and used dung baskets to apply it on the small area your family farmed.

    I have no doubt that there were several small farmers producing sugar cane as a cash crop for the factories that produced the 200K tons of sugar using animal dung.

    Your contribution was perhaps 10 % of the overall output and by itself could never justify the capital investment needed to produce the quantities of sugar required.

    I remember on larger landholdings which probably produced 90% of the sugar Barbados produced fertilizer was applied by this simple tractor implement and it was not animal dung.

    The need for extensive use of animals in agriculture had been removed after the war and hose power was supplied by the internal combustion engine.

  34. John Avatar
    John

    Horse, not hose!!!

  35. John Avatar
    John

    15 acres in an hour!!!!!

    Sugar output in the days of slavery was peanuts, capped by the milling capacity of windmills and inefficient farming methods which worked, but were not geared for output.

    Here is what 100 horses is replaced by these days … and you have all sorts of choices.

    A small farmer who gets a tractor from Government to plough his/her land is subsidized because he/she cannot justify such a capital outlay on a small plot which may be all he/she can afford.

    There are many entrepreneurs who sell their equipment time to small farmers these days, some are involved in large scale farming, others do it for the love of their work and to put bread on the table.

    .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCYljsOZDk

  36. angela cox Avatar
    angela cox

    Atherley seeking answers from this self made govt

    Seeking answers
    APP LEADER WANTS GOV’T TO PROVIDE DETAILS ON PROMISED PROJECTS
    By Shamar Blunt
    Former Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley wants more clarity about the capital works projects announced by Prime Minister Mia Mottley during her Budget speech earlier this month.
    He questioned the feasibility of the projects, given the country’s small workforce and the prevailing financial constraints, while addressing a meeting of his Alliance Party for Progress (APP) on Sunday.
    Saying the Mottley administration continued to boast about several projects but gave no clear indication on how they would be financed or other details, the APP leader said: “A lot of them have to do with tourism – so this hotel is going to go up there, and Sam Lord’s is going to start back and finish by this month, and Hyatt is going to come on stream. They are promising employment for Barbadians through this means, but they are not clear.
    “It will build a new Geriatric Hospital, it will do some additions to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital across the street, and they are saying they will do these things. You have to ask yourselves ‘where is the money going to come from, when will these things be done and how many jobs will really be generated?’ Do we have the capacity in terms of a labour force if the private sector really gets going with these capital projects? Do we have the adequate labour force to do it?” he questioned.
    While praising the national clean-up programme that currently has a predominately young workforce tasked with keeping the island’s roadways clean, Atherley emphasised the need for Government to be clearer on the future transitionary process into the construction sector which was promised to those workers but which has not yet borne fruit.
    “What construction work, where is it? You can’t fool people all of the time, not with the same story. A lot of the people I see out there earning an honest dollar working in the sun cleaning the roads . . . I salute them and I am glad that they have the opportunity for work, but . . . I believe – and I have to say so – a lot of those jobs were intended to ensure that when an election date came, those votes would go to the Barbados Labour Party.
    (SB)

  37. John Avatar
    John

    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights ReservedMarch 29, 2022 7:17 AM

    Should ask John what Black workers did on his family land all day long, before hanging out at lunch time on what his family termed the “nigga tree”.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    There were very few and the key ones were equipment operators.

    A ploughing tractor can work all day once fuel and oils are delivered, but that is only for a small period of time.

    During the out of crop period, other jobs were found for them that fitted their particular skills, carpentry, masonry, painting, welding, ploughing etc etc.

    Cane cutters were employed as needed.

    It was the few unskilled farmers, mostly women, who weeded where necessary and kept the lands inaccessible to tractors in order.

    Men got to drive tractors and women accepted it.

    Nowadays, that is not the case.

  38. John Avatar
    John

    Technology makes it possible for families to farm their own land.

    Taxes may end that!!

  39. David Avatar
    David

    Was Atherley able to bring any issue to closure that was investigated by the PAC?

  40. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    TLSN….we are watching this situation….they love to pay lip service, let’s see them put all their slick talk where there big talk is supposed to go…these Haitians were robbed and victimized…

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2022/03/29/migration-expert-says-deporting-or-abandoning-haitians-is-breach-of-un-human-rights-convention/

  41. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    There were some hot and thirsty to take in Ukranians…..let’s watch the difference..

    ““The world is watching how Barbados is treating this matter,” warned Dr Smith.

    “As guided by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, in the case of the Haitians, Barbados should respect international law regarding the treatment of migrants under international human rights law,” she added.

    Dr Smith declared that the Geneva Convention, under the principle of non-refoulement, states that no one should be returned to a country where they would face torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

    “This principle applies to all migrants at all times, irrespective of migration status,” said the migration specialist”

  42. African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved Avatar
    African Online Publishing Copyright ⓒ 2022. All Rights Reserved

    ““Is it that we are not willing to accept our brothers or sisters who look like us? There is an unfounded and discriminatory fear of Haitians not only among communities, but officials in Barbados. Haitian people are just humans trying to escape terrible circumstances and should be treated with dignity and respect as they have suffered enough,” she added.”

    not only Haitians, Afrikans too, there is a very wicked colonial mindset where they believe they are higher up and better off than people with the same ancestry, when, if you look closely at DNA they are all varying levels of cousins, both close and distant…but lack of critical education = undereducation is now causing this major social embarrassment….

  43. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    How man Haitians are we speaking of?
    Are they more than 80,000?
    If 80,001 then we should report the 1.

  44. John A Avatar
    John A

    @David

    All these tourism projects like four seasons have been knocking around for years. My problem is we keep banking on what others can do for us and not what we can do for ourselves. So we talk about what Sandals will do and what the Hyatt will do etc, you never hear much about what we can do by ourselves. Talk about the alternative energy sector and the plan to be self sufficient say on basic food items by 2030. Lets have those goals instead, as opposed to the tourism pipe dreams where other puppet masters pull the strings.

    I keep saying Covid has taught us nothing nor it appears has the war in Ukraine. We are still the same dependant country we were 2 years ago on tourism and imported fuel to fund and operate the economy.

  45. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    There is some truth in your critique BUT it is the private sector that should be carving out opportunities as well?

  46. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ John A March 29, 2022 6:40 PM

    It would be best to demolish all the failed hotel projects and renaturalise the sites. The Four Seasons is a great shame. Where there used to be a beautiful beach, there is now a ruin infested with cockroaches and termites.

    In general, I would like to point out that we had much more direct beach access for individual tourists on the west coast. Once there was a Chefette directly on the beach of the Platinum Coast. Now there are hotel ruins or construction fences with wasteland blocking access to the beach.

    The west coast is definitely far worse than 30 years ago.

  47. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Tron
    The owners of Chefette sold the place in 2008 because in their words it was “underperforming”, the word on the street is that they received 40 million for the beachfront property

  48. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Tron
    But don’t the people of Barbados own Four Seasonings (©️ Hants). Didn’t the $124M your Supreme Leader agreed to write off sans explanation, provide as collateral the lands, which her recently repatriated sister is trying to sell.
    That demo is something your Supreme Leader could make happen.
    I think you need to up your game and get results.

  49. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @NorthernObserverMarch 29, 2022 11:25 PM

    We should really instruct our Supreme Leader here.

    When I walk along the beach and see these lice-ridden, raggedy figures in Sandy Lane, I feel really sick. The working class should go to Cuba, please.

  50. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    I guess we are heading for another sovereign default. Our Supreme Leader is demanding reparations.

    There was once a time when we had something like honour and self-confidence. That was in 1966. Now we are beggars, begging our High White Masters from the North for a few seeds of bread.

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