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Dear Sir,

The things that politicians do and say to get votes are sometimes amazing. After reading the Opposition's political manifesto, I have dubbed them the United Bermuda Welfare Party.

If elected, I'm convinced that Bermuda would disintegrate into a welfare state.

So, after reading about some of their proposed freebies, I wanted to add a few of my own:

Why only give free breakfasts to children and free nursery to parents? Why not also give free lunch, free rent, free clothes and weekly free nail and hair appointments? At the same time, why not give free trips to the mothers while they're on their six month maternity leave?

Also, when those of us who live in Constituency 10 miss breakfast we should be able to walk down to Dunkley Dairy and collect our free food vouchers.

With all of this free stuff that Mr. Dunkley and his party are talking about, we may want to change the name of Bermuda to Fantasy Island.

I was also wondering who was going to pay for these freebies - the guest workers? It looks like they will be the only ones paying taxes because the rest of us will be collecting our free entitlements.

Too good to be true

It is said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." The words of a song by the late James Brown are "I don't want you to give me nothing, open up the door I'll get it myself."

In other words, Bermudians have a long history of hard work and self-reliance. We don't want handouts, but a hand up. The welfare road is a dead-end street, it kills ambition, initiative and it kills dreams.

So to Mr. Dunkley I say - show me some substance because my vote is worth more than a pie in the sky.

Shirley Richardson

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